According to Barbara Creed in the movie Alien the “mother” is perceived as a threat. The “mother” represents figures like the treacherous mother, the oral sadistic mother, and the mother as primordial abyss which create images of fear and the idea of the unknown in audiences. The fear is created when images like the all-devouring vagina and the toothed vagina are depicted into the aliens. This is portrayed in Alien because the “mother” uses males as hosts for the reproduction of their eggs. This threatens the male society in the fact that they die after the birth of the alien they are hosting. The concept of abject explains the unknown by securing the boundaries between the human and non-human through the concept of good and evil. The threat of evil and the human form the mother takes creates an evil and good image of the alien.
The “primal scene “or the image of sexual reproduction and birth is shown in scenes throughout the movie Alien. Creed explains that the idea of sexual production between a male and female is discarded in the movie Alien. The first example of this would be in the opening scene when an alien is born, breaks out, of Kane’s chest. An example like this shows the difference between the human and non-human ways of reproduction. The audience derives both fear and pleasure from the mother figure in the movie Alien. The fear of death derives in the audience when the aliens are born; also the mother brings pleasure to the audience when she puts on her seductive act.