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GIGER BAR - CHUR SWITZERLAND
Drinking to Aliens in Graubunden

“Alien”, the 1980 movie of a monster in outer space “where no-one can hear you scream” is acknowledged as one of the best and scariest sci-fi horror films of all time. Director Ridley Scott has described it as a B-movie “ten little Indians” plot taken to a heightened level by the horrific designs of Swiss conceptual artist H.R. Giger (pronounced geeger). Giger won an Oscar for Visual Effects for his contributions to the film based on his “biomechanical” combination of creature and machine, creating a bone-chilling monster with acid for blood, space ship interiors which seemed to be the innards of a monstrous space being, along with a prodigious amount of goo and slime to make for the ultimate creep-out. The actual prop for the giant dead alien space ship captain made of Styrofoam was unfortunately set afire by vandals when it was on display outside a movie theater in Hollywood, but other emblems of the world of Hans Reudi Giger and the movie can be found in curious corners around the world.

In the east Switzerland city of Chur in Graubunden, one can have a drink while sitting in the grasp of an alien creature like bar stool at the Giger Bar. Originally, intended for a bar in New York, the unique designs ended up in Giger’s hometown. The Giger Bar in Chur is located a few minutes city bus ride from the old town and rail station in an industrial park the Kalchbühl Center on Comercial Strasse near the offices of Switzerland’s news media company Sudostschweiz and across the street from the curious McDonald’s and Ibis Hotel in a silver pyramid. The Giger Bar actually opens in the morning for coffee and internet connection, but gets appropriately creepy at night when the shadows meet the metallic skeleton forms of the unique Giger inspirations, and the bar gets lively with nightlife. The Giger Bar is just one of several arty bars in Chur (see Design Bars of Chur).

For more HR Giger and "Alien" movie memorabilia, the HR Giger Museum in Gruyeres offers its own even grander version of the bar (see HR Giger Museum & Bar Gruyeres), in the town in southern Switzerland famous for it's cheese and the Chocolate Train (see Montreux Chocolate Train), and Alien film creature designs and frightful monster can be found at the creepy-in-its-own-right Film Museum in Berlin (see Berlin Film Museum). © Bargain Travel Europe

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