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[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I have a feeling it's a good thing to not know what that is.

[–]PenseePansyBio-Sex or Bust 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It IS a pretty damn unappealing image, isn't it?

It's from the movie "Alien" (1979; d. Ridley Scott): refers to the titular "xenomorph"'s reproductive cycle-- in "facehugger" form, it "lays" the egg in a host as described, which later hatches... with torso-exploding results. (Poor John Hurt really earned his name as surrogate-mom #1!)

But, as memorably-disturbing as it is (enough to achieve iconic status and create an entire franchise!), this still seems less like something out of a horror movie than the whole trans-atrocity does, imo. :(