Good start, but then it gets ruined

Best movie ever!

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

I knew going in that this was a low budget horror so i did not expect too much. I was only watching it anyway for Maryam d'Abo anyway. And she did not disappoint. She looks an absoute goddess here. Engaging in, completely non essential to the plot, nudity. Brilliant. The acting was so so, especially the kid, the alien looked cheap and rubbery, the score hurt my ears at times. But it was not a mess. It worked. It was really gripping to the end and there were some genuinely disturbing moments. Alien rape scenes, a woman giving birth to a man, the father giving his son a love bite! Horrifiic.........Terrific!

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/

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.This is one of the strangest films I have seen. And I have seen many strange films, wading as I do in horror, fantasy and cult flicks. This one is... well, hard to say. Definitely horror and definitely science fiction, but far too strange to be a straight narrative in either genre.One suspects the budget was zero, as nobody of note was involved in the picture. Bob Shaye produced for New Line, but this was before New Line had really gotten to be a big name. And yet, budget or not, we have some of the finest practical effects and creature designs you may ever see.