Not All Extraterrestrials Are Friendly.Xtro is one of those movies you might have caught on TV late at night, and afterwards asked yourself this question. "What The Fuck Did I Just Watch?"
Xtro is one of the few british midnight movies that have made it to our shores(i'm not including the countless hammer movies..) Xtro was also one of the first films released by New Line Cinema, and was produced by Robert Shaye who later went on to produce a film about a serial killer with bladed fingers who haunts peoples dreams..
The plot of Xtro is really cut and dry. A kids father gets taken away by a flying saucer, gets turned into a alien in order to survive their climate, gets homesick and heads back to earth to take his son back to the alien planet and live happily ever after.
What really makes Xtro is it's shock value. Xtro contains one of the most insane birthing sequences i've ever seen..the alien chestbuster pales in comparison.
Now after this sequence the father goes and inserts himself back into his old family, and befriends his son Tony. There is a lot of needless and boring padding in this movie about family life, and other ho-hum stuff. But as soon as Tony's dad gives him the mother of all hickies, things change.
You see, know Tony has psychic alien powers. And as soon as his snake is killed by a neighbor, he goes ballistic, and uses his psychic powers to kill her with his GI Joe doll. He makes Joe grow all big and strong, and asks him to pump the old hag full of lead.
Tony still isn't finished with his revenge. He sends a black panther to attack his babysitter's boyfriend(WTF?) and he and his midget clown friend knock the babysitter over the head with a mallet and turn her into one gigantic alien baby maker.
The film climaxes with Tony's dad showing his true colors, and goes all alien on his wife while they're doing the nasty. Then he runs outside grabs tony, makes the live in boyfriend's ears bleed with a ear shattering scream(The Jonas Brothers are aliens! ) That explains everything..) And then rips off his human birthday suit, and holds Tony's hand as they beam into the flying saucer and soar into the night sky.
The film ends with a stupid shock ending where the mother goes into the kitchen opens the fridge finds some alien eggs, curiousity kills the bitch, and she gets an alien arm to the face.
THE END.
Xtro was originally supposed to end with the mother walking in the kitchen and seeing multiple clones of her son Tony supposed to have come from the alien eggs in the fridge. But producer Robert Shaye didn't think the special effects in the scene were convincing enough so he edited out and put in the ending with Rachel sitting in the middle of the field after Sam and Tony have left. But director Harry Bromden Davenport hated that idea, and reshot the ending with Rachel getting a arm to the face. Either ending still sucks.(although i like the clone idea..)
Xtro is one of those video nasties that have a few gleefully gruesome scenes, but as a whole it is simply disappointing. Bad acting, an annoying synthzizer score, and it's random shit tendencies make this a miss in my book. Xtro is a nihilistic slice of british cinema that should be left on the shelf.
**
Watch The Crazy As Hell Birthing Sequence Below.
Xtro is one of the few british midnight movies that have made it to our shores(i'm not including the countless hammer movies..) Xtro was also one of the first films released by New Line Cinema, and was produced by Robert Shaye who later went on to produce a film about a serial killer with bladed fingers who haunts peoples dreams..
The plot of Xtro is really cut and dry. A kids father gets taken away by a flying saucer, gets turned into a alien in order to survive their climate, gets homesick and heads back to earth to take his son back to the alien planet and live happily ever after.
What really makes Xtro is it's shock value. Xtro contains one of the most insane birthing sequences i've ever seen..the alien chestbuster pales in comparison.
Now after this sequence the father goes and inserts himself back into his old family, and befriends his son Tony. There is a lot of needless and boring padding in this movie about family life, and other ho-hum stuff. But as soon as Tony's dad gives him the mother of all hickies, things change.
You see, know Tony has psychic alien powers. And as soon as his snake is killed by a neighbor, he goes ballistic, and uses his psychic powers to kill her with his GI Joe doll. He makes Joe grow all big and strong, and asks him to pump the old hag full of lead.
Tony still isn't finished with his revenge. He sends a black panther to attack his babysitter's boyfriend(WTF?) and he and his midget clown friend knock the babysitter over the head with a mallet and turn her into one gigantic alien baby maker.
The film climaxes with Tony's dad showing his true colors, and goes all alien on his wife while they're doing the nasty. Then he runs outside grabs tony, makes the live in boyfriend's ears bleed with a ear shattering scream(The Jonas Brothers are aliens! ) That explains everything..) And then rips off his human birthday suit, and holds Tony's hand as they beam into the flying saucer and soar into the night sky.
The film ends with a stupid shock ending where the mother goes into the kitchen opens the fridge finds some alien eggs, curiousity kills the bitch, and she gets an alien arm to the face.
THE END.
Xtro was originally supposed to end with the mother walking in the kitchen and seeing multiple clones of her son Tony supposed to have come from the alien eggs in the fridge. But producer Robert Shaye didn't think the special effects in the scene were convincing enough so he edited out and put in the ending with Rachel sitting in the middle of the field after Sam and Tony have left. But director Harry Bromden Davenport hated that idea, and reshot the ending with Rachel getting a arm to the face. Either ending still sucks.(although i like the clone idea..)
Xtro is one of those video nasties that have a few gleefully gruesome scenes, but as a whole it is simply disappointing. Bad acting, an annoying synthzizer score, and it's random shit tendencies make this a miss in my book. Xtro is a nihilistic slice of british cinema that should be left on the shelf.
**
Watch The Crazy As Hell Birthing Sequence Below.
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