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This movie is one of the best 80's flicks ever!!!!

posted 15 years ago by XtroTerrestial
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I remember I had saw this poster in a video store back in the 1980's. I had become obsessed with everything about this mocie, even though I didn't accually watch it. I just liked the cover art. So I would draw the cover art the best I could, which at the age of 8, was kind of impressive. So I finally watched it when I was 14, (yes I managed to sneak it passed my folks) and nothing prepared me for what I saw. It was so grotesque, so demented, and so freaky, I had to rewind it to see it again.

This si the kind of film that never gets old for me. Even now, at the age of 32, it's the kind of film I will cherish 4-ever!

Xcellent job, Mr. Davenport!

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[–] Courtland80 15 years ago

I just saw it on VHS not to long ago for the 3 or 4th time...

the sequal isn't bad either

[–] Euroky 15 years ago

Thank you for the bizarre story and for the kind compliment.

Best wishes,

Harry.

[–] AndreiPavlov 15 years ago

Your story reminds me of my own, Mr "XtroTerrestial". Remember watching "Xtro" back in late 1980s twice in a local video theatre (and boasted at home about its freaky content afterwards). What really got to me was that it had an ending superior to many other horror flicks I saw those days (with boring or not-so-boring happy endings).

The only flick in my home DVD collection (2-DVD German release pack), which I ordered via I-net and paid a lot of dough for.

Regards

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[–] BrainGremlin 15 years ago

"best 80's flicks ever"

Do you not notice something strange with this statement? "'80s" suggests it's from a specific time period. "Ever" is, well, on the subject, since the beginning of movies.

Hm? HMM?!

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[–] YouKnowMyName68 14 years ago

shaking head

I remember catching this Brit flick on a whim at night at a down town San Francisco theater with over 30 wild teenagers and various juveniles just tearing up the place (the theater managers didn't care about the underage crowd, that theater saw it's glory days in the early 70s), this was in 1983, a year after E.T. and The Thing (I saw neither of them), anyway, watching X-Tro the impression I got was that this was the corniest *beep* I've yet seen for awhile since The Man With Two Heads . Nothing nostalgic on my part. I thought it was garbage then, as an early teen and still is garbage now.

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[–] MovieKnut 13 years ago

I thought it was garbage then, as an early teen and still is garbage now.

Each to their own dude. Caught this on video in the 80s and have liked it since the first viewing.

Some of the sequences were excellently realised, in particular the sequence with the action figure and the 'birth' scene.

Not always easy to watch, but in my opinion it rises above its low budget origins.

You can't palm off a second-rater on me. You gotta remember I was in the pink!

[–] sam_dean1972 14 years ago

Same here matey. I have been trying to find this movie for the longest time. I could only recalled some of the 'best' scenes from the movie (i was closing my eyes 90% of the time since I was like 10 years old then)

Just today, I was browsing the net and ta-dah!

So happy now. Can't wait to pop in the dvd into my player tonight. Certainly one of the best movie ever. What I remembered about this movie is that the alien thing kind of reminded me a little of ET and spooky enough, both came out within the same year. Oh! Not a fan of ET..Xtro rules;-)

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[–] XtroTerrestial 14 years ago

Tell me what you think of it afterward!

I'm a bad movie masochist!

[–] shevchen 13 years ago

Check out our little musical tribute to this epic movie :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI1W7TF8378

Yours,
Alex Shevchenko