Halloween Countdown – 31 Scary Moments – Oct. 25

October officials marks the beginning of Scary Season. With this in mind, the Pepper Bough is celebrating with a daily dose of creepy moments sure to make your hairs stand on end. Come celebrate with us… if you dare.

Does it get scarier than the chest-bursting scene in “Alien”?

A group of blue-collar working stiffs on a commercial intergalactic flight headed home intercept a mysterious distress call they have to check out. Then, over breakfast, the unthinkable happens . . . one of them gets sick, and then a baby alien erupts from his chest.

For a sci-fi film, it is the mundanity of this scene that makes it so terrifying. Everyone is eating breakfast, talking about boring, normal stuff. Then the horror.

”Alien” is on everyone’s list as one of the greatest horror films for a reason.