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SMNTY Classics: Alien Edition!

Stuff Mom Never Told You

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The Face Hugger and Its Origins

Face huggers latch on to some one's face and insert their proboscis down their throat, forcing them to become the host for their baby. Once the organism is ready inside its host's stomach, it bursts out of the victim's stomach, and this is called a chest burster. This was also famously parodied in space balls, which youevermember s isay, dining diner. And then from there, it grows very, very rapidly, like ours, into a full grown creature called a zeno morf.

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