NEWS – Xtro 4 to Begin Shooting This Summer

Published on: 8th March, 2010

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With Hollywood digging up every old fossil from the 1970s and ’80s and giving them the attractive MTV makeover, fans of old school schlock may be interested to know that there are still the occasional sequels produced. Whilst the follow-up to The Lost Boys may have been a total disaster, one classic that is set to spew out another movie is Xtro, Harry Bromley Davenport’s no budget British science fiction horror that has become something of a lost cult classic over the last three decades.

The original movie was released in 1983 and was described by Roger Ebert as ‘an ugly, mean-spirited and despairing thriller that left me thoroughly depressed.’ The movie was almost included in the infamous video nasty witch-hunt of the 1980s and would eventually spawn two sequels, 1990’s Xtro II: The Second Encounter and 1995’s Xtro 3: Watch the Skies, both directed by Davenport.

Now Fangoria are reporting that the filmmaker is set to bring back the franchise after a fifteen-year absence. ‘I am going to be starting XTRO 4 this summer,’ reveals Davenport. ‘It’s going to be a very odd movie indeed. Sort of back to the roots of the first one, but much stranger and, hopefully, more uncomfortable.’ The film will see him once again team up with Watch the Skies writer Daryl Haney, whose other credits have included Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood and Emmanuelle, Queen of the Galaxy.

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