Xtro II: The Second Encounter (1990)

Director:

Harry Bromley Davenport

Writers:

John A. Curtis (writer)
Edward Kovach (writer)

Release Date:

June 1991 (Japan)

Genre:

Horror | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

Part Alien. Part Predator. All Terror.

Plot:

Scientists at a secret underground complex have found a way to travel to another dimension. Three dimension-travellers...

Plot Keywords:

Scientist | Monster | Parallel World | Second Part | Alien Monster

Cast

Jan-Michael Vincent	...	Dr. Ron Shepherd
Paul Koslo	...	Dr. Alex Summerfield
Tara Buckman	...	Dr. Julie Casserly
Jano Frandsen	...	McShane
Nicholas Lea	...	Baines
W.F. Wadden	...	Jedburg
Rolf Reynolds	...	Zunoski
Nic Amoroso	...	Mancini
Bob Wilde	...	Secretary Kenmore
Rachel Hayward	...	Dr. Myers
Tracy Westerholm	...	Marshall
Gerry Nairn	...	Ford
Nicola Crosbie	...	Medic Council
Michael Metcalfe	...	Dawson
Thom Schioler	...	Hoffman

Also Known As:

Xtro 2: The Second Encounter (USA) (video box title)
Xtro II (USA) (DVD box title)

Runtime:

USA:92 min

Country:

Canada

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Iceland:16 | Netherlands:16 | Australia:M | Germany:18 | UK:18 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Company:

North American Pictures

Trivia:

In an interview director Harry Bromley Davenport said star Jan-Michael Vincent was extremely difficult to work with. Vincent didn't care about the film and thus didn't memorize his lines. Davenport was then forced to feed every line to him while filming each scene.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Laserhawk (1997)

Oh my god! How bad can it get!

Now I think that I can appreciate a movie if it doesn't have brilliant sets brilliant actors or even a brilliant plot. But this film? No way! It was dull it was pointless it was a rip off of alien for the first part then Aliens for the second. Also it has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the first film Xtro, I am guessing they just called it Xtro II to try and get some people to buy it, and I am one of those people. The acting is awful the characters are lame the sets are not very complicated if you know what I mean, the special effects are not that special although the alien actually is passable as a fun monster if not a realistic one. Now this is full of cliches but where as Cyborg Cop seems to know it's using cliches and relishes in the fun this movie takes itself completely seriously, the only part where it started getting interesting was near the end but that was only getting upto a 2 or 3 on the excitometer. All in all a bad film, Paul Koslo was much better as the evil Russian counterpart in Robot Jox, here he is just plain wooden. I wouldn't recommend this movie to anyone except maybe if you put together a short five minute movie of the edited highlights. A waste of time. 2/10