I wated Xtro last night.
As a kid, it was the title on the wall of the video rental store that we all wanted to get, it was said to be the scariest movie ever. Banned in Britain and all. The cover had the most disgusting looking monster of them all, and the fact that it had the monster on the cover meant that we would actually see a monster in this horror film.
But, it was rated R(+18) and so we couldn't hire it and nobody's cool parents agreed to rent it for us.
So when I saw the chance to get a copy recently I grabbed it.
I was expecting a lot worse, but it wasn't the usual b-grade horror.
Set in England, a guy gets abducted by aliens and his son sees it all go down. Nobody believes the son, who has the same name as my brother, and assumes the guy has done the runner on the wife. Jump some years and the wife has a new beau and the son seem quite happy-go-lucky for someone who watched his dad (who has the same name as my nephew) get stolen by moon-men in a flash of light.
But then dad-guy shows-up from seemingly out of nowhere (we get to see from where, and it was hilarious) unable to remember where he had been. Mum's new bloke get the shits and sonny-boy is over the moon. He was a little freaked out when daddy ate his pet snake's eggs, but has able to understand once dad tracked him down and gave him a very strange kiss on the shoulder.
It gets weirder, albeit slowly and in that Pommy way that makes the old Doctor Who series so creepy.
I'd recommend it to people who like b-horror.
haunted house with marlon wayne. I could not make it past 30 mins , had to switch it off it was so bad.
Sounds like a pretty bad movie, I sort of want to see it after reading about it. Don't think so though.
