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  "textContent": "To mark Alien Day, we head back to the late 1970s to see how HR Giger designed the Space Jockey – and its look at its strange fate after the film’s premiere… In the early hours of Tuesday, the 29th May 1979, someone killed the Space Jockey. Burned it alive, perhaps with a blowtorch or ...  Alien | The birth and curious death of HR Giger’s Space Jockey\n\nThe post Alien | The birth and curious death of HR Giger’s Space Jockey appeared first on Film Stories.",
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