top moments of XTRO

Of course Harry! Nice to 'see' you here! FAB news XTRO 4! (Yeh!) If I were you I'd send-up the 'Species' franchise!

I saw Xtro on Video last month, and I picked up the trilogy box-set a few weeks later. Were you influenced by H.P. Lovecraft at all?

The first Xtro reminds me a lot of one of his stories; "Through the Gates of the Silver Key" similar story - 'guy returns to Earth no longer human'

Xtro II's similar to another Lovecraft "From Beyond" - 'scientist unleashes monster from another dimension'

I love the way Xtro 3 beatifully sends-up the 'Roswell craze' which I remember as a kid in the mid-90s, plus the Alien (who I thought was rather cute) being as empathetic as (understandably) violent.

My Xtro moments;

Maryam (hot stuff) D'Abo as alien-egg machine

Phil Sayer (RIP) passing-on alien DNA to Simon Nash

Poor Bernice Stegers, after losing her son, boyfriend and husband (again), getting (as you said Harry on 'Xtro Xposed') 'placenta-like-thing' in the face (presumeably so she too can be 're-born') I have to say Harry despite being 'off-the-wall' and 'pointless' I found it profoundly disturbing!


Hope to write my own suitably bizarre sci-fi/horror.

when i visit my brother, i usually try to come up with some interesting horror/scifi movies to watch. i always try to pull out the most bizarre/obscure ones available in the US that i know of. well, there we were watching XTRO DVD commentary and PATRICK shows up.....we had just watched that one. we looked at each other in satisfaction and smiled. he loved Patrick it as much as i did.

Yeah, that's certainly a unique and memorable moment, and it should be shown in all sex education videos to promote abstinence!

Ok seriously, aside from that scene I would have to say the best moments were:

- When the Sam/alien first returns and reconstructs itself in the woods
- Tony infects Analise in the bathroom
- The almost completely deteriorated Sam looks back from the hillside
- When the skeletal creature takes Tony away in the finale
- The original "clones" ending

(QUOTE) by Harry323-1 (Sun Apr 22 2007 23:43:00) Ignore this User | Report Abuse
How about our big scene: the birth scene where a fully grown man is born from a woman?
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That was truly bizarre and mesmerising (especially from my childhood memories).
XTRO reminds me of Andrzej Zulawski's Possession!


Bullshyt MR han-man!!

LOL that was pretty crazy by any standards of what this movie was trying to do...

-- 1.Nude French au pair girl. --

Amen, brother! If I were Bromley, I sure as heck wouldn't have used a telephoto lens for that scene where D'Abo's lying down all naked -- I'd've averred that no lens like this was available so I'd have the excuse to shoot very close up. Hoo-ah!

All great scenes- but one that hasn't been mentioned yet is where the kids dad (sorry, I'm crap with film character names) calls his wife from the phone box, can barely speak, and the mouthpiece melts (this is before he officially resembles a human and just after the brilliant 'woman giving birth to fully grown man' scene). Later when she sees him she asks- 'did you phone earlier?' and he says 'no'.

Simple, but cool.

''KEEP IT FOOLISH!''

Nice to meet you! It never even occurred to me that you might have been the sake's namesnake... snake's namesake I mean. Yes, snakes are of the reptile persuasion and lay eggs, and I always found it kind of funny that a presumably female snake was named Harry; it added to the bizarre nature of the picture.


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