#x-tro

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[weirdellis]

Doodles watching Best of the Worst

[skooodles]

[cinematicwasteland]

Xtro is an extremely entertaining, nicely-photographed, fairly well-acted and efficient little exploitation movie with fun special effects, lots of gore, some sleaze and many memorably oddball moments worth checking out. The director also co-wrote it and did the awesome synthesizer score.

This production is also noteworthy for being produced by Robert Shaye and his then fledgling New Line Cinema; who handled the U.S. distribution. It was one of only two horror releases that predated their company-stabilizing hit A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984).

[cinematicwasteland]

[thehorrorcats]

X-tro (1983)

There's a panther in this former "Video Nasty", but there's nothing nasty about that.