Bill Warren wrote:
es, that's true--at least the head of the Mutant was based on a rejected Xenomorph design. But there were other designs, too; a famous article in Collier's featured a big color photo of a lineup of the Creature, the Mutant and a Xenomorph--but it's not the one used in the movie, and it's not the Mutant head, either. It's a large prop with a transluscent head and two eyes (only one is visible in the Collier's photo) that look like they could project out on stalks. It has no discernible mouth. This head, now the property of director Bill Malone, was used on screen--at the end of the Alfred Hitchcock Hour episode "Sign of Satan." A slender model wearing the large head sneaks up on Sir Alfred.
To my great pleasure, last night we were at the home of Bill Malone and his wife, and Bill showed me this unused Xenomorph head. It was somewhat smaller than I expected, and much heavier. Beverly thought it resembled a pickle.