10. Alien (Rape)
1979’s Alien introduced audiences to the highly dangerous and aggressive Xenomorph. The alien attacked the crew of the commercial spaceship the Nostromo and killed the crew one by one, withSigourney Weaver‘s Ellen Ripley eventually succeeding in killing it, prior to a subsequent series of films in which her character would face more of them.
The film is said to have an underlying rape theme, with the titular creature representing it specifically. In its “Facehugger” form, the creature orally violates its victims and the phallic imagery involved in the process of the violation is obvious. Then, when the resulting “Chestburster” emerges from the victim, it is very phallic in shape, the victim struggles helplessly and, in one case, was being held down during the ordeal – and all of that is merely touching on the theme, which was prevalent throughout.
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