Before there was Avatar, there was ...

Many people, including myself, have noted that the armoured "amp suits" in Avatar bear a striking resemblance to the load-lifting mechanism that Ripley used to defeat the Queen Alien in Aliens (1986). But James Cameron's love of mechanized extensions to the human body goes back even further -- to his low-budget short film Xenogenesis (1978). Watch it below, and note what happens at the 7:12 mark in particular: