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The Deadly Spawn
Why this pick
Like Xtro, this is scrappy early-1980s alien horror built around startling creature effects, a child’s-eye sense of danger, and gleefully unpredictable B-movie escalation.
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MOVIE1982 1h 23m GBR
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The Brood
Why this pick
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From Beyond
Why this pick
For Xtro’s taste for lurid practical effects and bizarre biological transformations, this fast, colourful Lovecraft adaptation delivers similarly unrestrained mad-science horror.
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TerrorVision
Why this pick
An alien monster arriving through ordinary suburban technology gives this the same cheerfully deranged, slimy 1980s creature-feature energy as Xtro.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Sam Phillips and his child Tony are playing outside their farm. The father is Alien abduction by a strong light. Three years later, the light returns, and plants a seed. A half-human, half-alien creature grows up, and when it moves it is run over by a car. Ben is attacked and killed when he looks for the crash victim. Jane, his companion, is also killed by the hybrid creature. The monster then moves to a cottage nearby and attacks and Fertilisation a young woman living there, before dissolving and dying. When she returns to consciousness, her belly rapidly and painfully grows to a gargantuan size that it even tears through her dress, showing movement inside her belly, and she gives birth, vaginally, to a fully formed and bloody Sam, who is connected to her by an umbilical cord like a baby is to its mother, before Maternal death. Sam washes the blood off, steals Ben's clothes and drives his car without bothering to get rid of Jane's corpse, which will be found by a lorry driver.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Simon Nash
Tony Phillips
David Cardy
Michael
Anna Wing
Mrs. Goodman
Robert Fyfe
Doctor
Robert Pereno
Ben
Arthur Whybrow
Mr. Knight
Bernice Stegers
Rachel Philips
Philip Sayer
Sam Philips