Why didn't anybody ever tell me about Xtro? How had I never seen Xtro? Cuz Xtro is, if you can believe it -- extra! Xtremely Xtra. (This is why I get paid the no bucks, everybody.) Anyway Xtro came out in 1982, the same year as Steven Spielberg's alien-kiddie sci-fi extravaganza E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, and Xtro is like its evil doppleganger -- it's E.T. on a bad bad bad trip, if you will. It's about a young boy who witnesses his father get abducted by a bright light and disappear for several years, only to return... different. That's all I'll say besides that it's all disturbingly sexual (above you'll see actor David Cardy in his lovely altogether -- he plays the boy's French nanny's boyfriend and they're constantly schtupping instead of noticing what's going on, which of course works out well for them both) and it's hallucinigenic and it's just a big ol' pile of ridiciulous WTF-ery, and I am extremely (excuse me Xtremely) sad that I didn't have Xtro in my life until this week. There are apparently two sequels? Has anyone seen them? Xtro was already a cheap affair, I can only imagine it gets worse from here, but I'm tempted...
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I revisited Xtro after season 1 of Stranger Things, which I felt had references to it (don't ask me what now). Like Stephon says, this one has EVerything...
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