Sorry, this movie sucks

Purely Joyful Movie!

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

A father is abducted by aliens, only to return 3 years later & find that a new man has moved in with his wife & young son. This British science fiction shocker appears to have gained many bad reviews over the years for being grotesque, silly, etc but I personally think that it's an excellent film & worthy of cult status. The many special effects are well done (so much better than these modern, horrible CGI ones). In addition to aliens there is a creepy clown, a life size action man doll that comes to life & a toy tank that fires real shells! Great soundtrack that adds to the feel, plus a bit of nudity. It did briefly make the Video Nasties list here in Britain but is not considered a bona fide one. I just revisited this on VHS but have also just bought the recent limited edition blu ray loaded with extras, I'm looking forward to Xploring that!

One of Robert Shaye's first films in which he produced (later he produced the A Nightmare on Elm Street series) as Harry Bromley Davenport (who also co-wrote and did the music) brings us a gory, sometimes not 100% coherent story of a father (Phillip Sayer) who is abducted by aliens only to return years later to try and reunite his family. At first glance reading that synopsis it may seem to almost be a family picture, but that is far from it as your eyes are welcomed to a few gore scenes that are indeed memorable. There are some rather unsettling scenes. One in particular is where the full grown father is reborn through a woman's womb. But, if you take this British horror/sci-fi film for what it is or tries to be, which is a low-budget movie that brings gore and tries a different approach than Steven Spielberg's E.T. in aliens invading earth than you may enjoy this early -80s gorefest. Also starring as the french roommate Analise was Mayam D'Abo who by the late-80s was Bond girl Kara Milovy in The Living Daylights.

Alien is a haunted house movie in space that has begat a slew of imitators, copycats and outright rip-offs. 1982s Xtro, on the other hand, is truly a movie that has something for everyone: if everyone includes folks who want to see movie about a father reconnecting with his son, as well as a film where Maryam d'Abo is repeatedly naked, a kid discovers his psychic powers with a weird clown, an Alien-style birth scene of a fully-grown man being born out of a pregnant woman ("What is it with all the alien birth scenes in these movies? What is wrong with people?" asked my wife), toys coming to life, a child hunting down people like The Omen…truly Xtro is about ten movies worth of ideas in one scuzzy, scummy exploitation fever dream.I'll do my best to summarize the plot, but at any point, you may declare, "You're just making this up now." I assure you that what follows is as close to the filmed truth as possible. It truly is that weird film that even surprised a jaded viewer such as myself.Tony and his dad Sam (Phillip Sayer, The Hunger) are playing fetch with their dog. On the last stick through, much like 2001: A Space Odyssey, Sam tossed the stick high into the air and the screen goes white as he gets abducted.Three years later, the light appears in the sky again and an alien creature scurries across a British countryside road. It gets hit by a car, yet survives to kill the driver and his passenger, then find his way to a cottage where it impregnates the lady who resides there. Moments later, Sam is reborn, clawing his way out of the woman, even biting into a bloody umbilical cord before he leaves. This is ten minutes into the movie. And if you think this is the end of the craziness, read on….Sam wants to find his son, who lives with his mother Rachel (Bernice Stegers, Macabre), her new boyfriend Joe (Sinon Nash, Brazil) and a French babysitter named Analise (the aforementioned d'Abo, The Living Daylights) whose sole job seems to be getting naked every time she is on screen. Sam has nightmares about his dad every single night, waking up soaked in blood. Oddly, it turns out that the blood isn't his.READ MORE AT http://www.thatsnotcurrent.com/xeroxenomorphs-xtro-1982/

You have got to love a classic campy Sci-Fi film! Even though this movie is from 1983, it still reminds me of 50's scifi horror!So here's the plot. From the beginning, it barely makes any sense as we see a father and son playing in the yard with their dog. When the father, named Sam, throws a stick in the air which EXPLODES!!! What the heck? Anyway, then you see some flashing lights and then next thing you know, the father's been abducted by aliens. It's pretty crazy! The mom doesn't believe the alien story, and thinks that Sam ran off with another woman. So she plans to marry some other guy. But then a UFO comes back and drops off a small disgusting looking alien which goes around killing people and impregnates some girl. Then the alien dies and the girl that got knocked up by the extraterrestrial gives birth to the father Sam. What the hell kind of movie is this?! So when Sam reunites with his wife, it turns into a battle between him and the new boyfriend. That's as far as I'm going to go with the plot, if you want to know the rest of it then go watch the movie because it's too crazy to describe!The special effects are a gore fest. When the father gets reborn, it's pretty gnarly. Especially since he bites through his own umbilical cord.Also, the special effect on the alien is really good too. Overall, the effects are what you'd expect from an 80's movie. Their nice and organic, but disgusting (in a good way if you're into that kind of stuff).Overall, it's a trashy, deranged and sleazy science fiction movie with gore and crazy special effects! I say go check it out!