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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