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Friday, 21 July 2017
Xtro: 1982
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Xtro
Way back in the 1980s there was an explosion of ‘creature features’ dubbed the monster movies (US), and in the (UK) they called them video-nasties where most were cut to shreds by the film censer board, or put on the DPP list. Xtro was such a film, perhaps the scene where a woman gives birth to a full-grown man was just the ticket to get the movie dubbed a ‘video nasty’. Although incorrectly labelled a video nasty, Xtro was never officially cut by the BBFC and since been downgraded from cert.18 to cert.15
When released in 1982 UK and 1983 US, Xtro received harsh reviews from the film critics. Mostly slamming it’s confusing story-line, or lack of it. And famously being panned on ‘At the Movies’ with Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert. However, years later the movie has enjoyed a cult status among a new generation of horror / sci-fi fans.
In 2005 the film’s director Harry Bromley Davenport described the film as a complete mess, with his original ending of clones of Tony being canned by Robert Shaye of New Line Cinema. Many other conflicts of during the production process would pursue, so it’s quite clear why the film was so confusing to viewers.
What Xtro lacked in story, it certainly made up with an impressive cast of actors - Philip Sayer The Hunger, Bernice Stegers City of Women and Maryam d’Abo, who later went on to become a ‘Bond Girl’ in the The Living Daylights. By no means is Xtro a great movie, but it’s not an entirely bad movie either. There are a lot of elements in Xtro that make it very watchable, however confusing the storyline, which in my opinion has kept viewers interested in this film after so many years.
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