Early 1980s Alien ripoff flick XTRO is about as incoherent as you can get and still be classified as scifi rather than whatever genre the Cremaster movies are in. Still it offers us a few joys, such as this utterly demented scene of an alien impregnating a human female. I love when the, uh, organ comes out of his alien fly (?) or orifice. Reminds me of the brilliant Canadian movie Decoys 2, where the ladies impregnate men with the old tentacle-in-mouth trick (clearly spearheaded by XTRO). There's also an "after" scene below.
Here our poor disposable lady gives birth to a full-grown Adrian Brody-looking dude. Gross! What is it with gigantic birth scenes in scifi? There's one in Slither, too.









Early 1980s Alien ripoff flick XTRO is about as incoherent as you can get and still be classified as scifi rather than whatever genre the
Here our poor disposable lady gives birth to a full-grown Adrian Brody-looking dude. Gross! What is it with gigantic birth scenes in scifi? There's one in Slither, too.



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Let us not forget the scene in the movie Warlock. That was kind a brutal too.....
Can I just make a quick request to io9 - Is their any chance you can pay more attention when posting videos/enact a policy where by they aren't set to auto-play, it's often quiet jarring for it to begin playing right away, and can bring my browser to a crawl at inopportune moments.
That said, I'm enjoying these Found Footage articles a good deal, but I'd like to see something less sexual for the next one. Make it so.
Certainly an envelope pusher of the early 80's horror films.
Yes, I say this is more horror than sci fi, because it glories in the red stuff far more than any bit of the "alien" plotline.
@thethrizzle: Wasn't the particularly nasty birth scene in one of the sequels though? I seem to remember the woman being pinned down by glass while her pregnancy accelerated, right?
@Plague: And I agree that it's certainly more of an horror movie, but I suppose even the smallest aspect of science fiction is enough to warrant it's posting here - which is good, it's nice to see this place expanding it's horizons a little.
@PriorMarcus: This is a known bug -- the videos don't autoplay for me in Firefox, and they aren't supposed to play unless you click on them. The tech team is working on it, though -- you're not the first person to have this problem.
There's also one in AVP2 (horrible movie, I know) with alien oral sex...
@Annalee Newitz: Good to hear it's being looked in too, just to add to your understanding of the issue I'm using Firefox too, so I doubt it's a browser issue. Still, like I said, interesting article all the same.
God this movie really disturbed me as a kid with that birth scene. I will not be watching the clip.
Didn't "Species 2" have an explosive (if unsuccessful) birthing scene?
@Frozen-Tex:
yeah, species 2 two did have a racy sexy scene. They started off as two innocent looking humans and then homeboy cocooned them in some translucent orb of light and they changed into freaky monsters. I love how the black dude with the mutated blood anti virus whatever stabbed himself in the leg and then stabbed freaky alien guy. Off on another tangent I go...
Wow. That was the worst thing I've ever seen. I'm a little stoned, but that last scene especially freaked me out. Funny, though. But oh damn.
@Macloserboy: It's one of the first movies I remember being super creeped out by when I was a kid too. I couldn't even read about it in Twilight Zone magazine it was so scary.
Yeah there have been a few western scifi/more horror flicks that tackle this weird alien/too large birthing thing but as one would expect it's got it's own subcategory in j-animation and manga and as would be expected it explores the concepts in way too disturbing a depth.
Don't even get me started on the alien impregnation of a human female thing they've got going on over there. At least that one seems to have finally burnt itself out (from what little I can tell in the american midwest via as much time for internet wandering as I have.)
Um, OW.
So that's how we got Adrian Brody in this world!
I remember another film, but about intra-terrestrials... ;P IIRC, it was called 'Humaniods from the Deep'. But I can't remember if the thing birthed was huge or not.
This was a favorite horror movie when I was in Junior High. I remember the poster, with a pic of a kid & a monster, and the ad copy said something like "David is just like his father..."
@PriorMarcus: I'm using IE7 and vids only ever play if I click on them. No auto-play. Check your settings.
That was her good china, too.
@Cantonkid:
Oh, it was.
Yeah this is bad, but the Japanese have corned the sci-fi / horror / impregnantion thing to great success.
I certainly can't view hoses the same without imagining them birthing the seed of the worlds destructor; who will change for some reason every time a new studio sits down to write the next movie.
Oh yeah and vaginas with teeth. Long history of that.
Talk about a tight fit....
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