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9. Alien

James Cameron’s Alien movies, starring Sigourney Weaver as Ripley, have rape and the complications of motherhood as central themes.

Screenwriter Dan O’Bannon says “[o]ne thing that people are all disturbed about is sex… I said ‘That’s how I’m going to attack the audience; I’m going to attack them sexually. And I’m not going to go after the women in the audience, I’m going to attack the men. I am going to put in every image I can think of to make the men in the audience cross their legs. Homosexual oral rape, birth. The thing lays its eggs down your throat, the whole number.'”