Xtro
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| Xtro | |
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| File:Xtro.jpg Xtro video cover | |
| Directed by | Harry Bromley Davenport |
| Written by | Harry Bromley Davenport |
| Produced by | Mark Forstater |
| Starring | Susie Silvey |
| Cinematography | John Metcalfe |
| Edited by | Nicolas Gaster |
| Music by | Harry Bromley Davenport |
| Distributed by | New Line Cinema (USA) |
Release date |  January 1983 |
Running time | 81 min. |
| Country | UK |
| Language | English |
Xtro is a low-budget British science fiction horror film made in 1982 and directed by Harry Bromley Davenport and co-produced by Bob Shaye. Its plot details the unexpected return to Earth of a devoted family man who was abducted by aliens three years ago, and now possesses unearthly powers.
Xtro was briefly vilified as a video nasty, especially due to a particularly graphic scene early in film whereby a women gives birth to a fully grown man. However, it was granted an uncut video certificate by the BBFC shortly after its successful cinema run.
Xtro 4 is in the works. Harry Bromley Davenport spoke to Fangoria.com and stated
“I am going to be starting XTRO 4 this summer; you are the first to receive this shattering news,” Davenport tells us. “A script by Daryl Haney is in the works, and my sales guys are salivating. It’s going to be a very odd movie indeed. Sort of back to the roots of the first one, but much stranger and, hopefully, more uncomfortable.”
Plot summary
Tony's father Sam, abducted by aliens three years earlier, returns to earth and seeks out his wife and son, but Rachel has since been living with Joe and the reunion is awkward. Joe does not trust Sam, and Rachel cannot quite decide what her feelings are for her two men. Sam is not the same as when he left, and he begins affecting Tony in frightening ways.
Two sequels to this movie were made:
DVD Release
The film was released on DVD twice. The first DVD of the film was released in 2005 as a double feature with Xtro II: The Second Encounter. The second DVD was released in 2006 as a standalone release.
Cast
- Maryam d'Abo - Analise Mercier
- Philip Sayer - Sam Phillips
- Bernice Stegers - Rachel Phillips
- Simon Nash - Tony Phillips
- Peter Mandell - Clown
- David Cardy - Michael
- Anna Wing - Mrs. Goodman
- Susie Silvey - Woman In Cottage
- Katherine Best - Jane
External links
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- 1983 films
- English-language films
- 1980s horror films
- Monster movies
- New Line Cinema films
- Science fiction horror films
- Xtro films with alien visitation plot