To further celebrate the Halloween I thought it would fun to share a few not so widely known facts about two masters; Alfred Hitchcock & H.R. Giger. Hitchcock is known as the “Master of Suspense” and Giger (other than being my favourite artist) is best known for his work for the Alien movies – and they’re just a small portion of what this mastermind has created.

So, did you know that…

Alfred Hitchcock

Director

1. Hitchcock had an extreme fear of eggs, known as ovophobia.

2. Hitchcock almost never socialized when not shooting films, with most of his evenings spent quietly at home with his wife Alma Reville.

3. When Hitchcock won his Lifetime Achievement award in 1979, he joked with friends that he must be about to die soon. He died a year later.

4. In his childhood days, Alfred Hitchcock was sent by his father with a letter to the local police station. The officer read the letter and, without further ado, locked young Alfred up for ten minutes. Then he let him go, explaining that this is what happenes to people who do bad things. Hitchcock was frightened of the police from that day on.

5. When Hitchcock accepted the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, he delivered the shortest acceptance speech in Oscar history: he simply said "Thank you."

H.R. Giger

Painter, Sculptor, Set Designer

1. Giger designed a transit tunnel for Switzerland during the early nineties. Essentially it was a pentagram shaped system and the entrances to the underground were supposed to be marked by five massive pyramids (each 1000 meters tall).

2. Giger suffers from Night Terrors, and keeps an artist's pad near his bed to draw out his nightmares. It was in this fashion that he came up with horrific designs of the monsters for Alien.

3. Giger built a private ghost train to his garden. Neighbours weren’t actually pleased.

4. The front (face) part of the alien costume's head designed by H.R. Giger is made from a real human skull.

5. Los Angeles City Attorney prosecuted the Dead Kennedys’ front man Jello Biafra in 1986 for “distributing harmful material to minors” because their album included some of Giger’s artwork.