Both movies tonight were made in England but that's about the extent of their simularity. Xtro, our first feature is a 1983 horror film, which I remembered as being somewhat gory and very moist. I saw it on video tape sometime in the mid-80's, and people were excited about it. I even had a copy at one time but I taped over it. I purged a lot of movies from my collection over the years, expecially after going to recording stuff at SP instead of EP. A simular pogrom happened after I switched to recording stuff in stereo. I had seen Xtro was out on dvd but hadn't planned to buy it. Sperhauk did, now I don't need to.
A young boy and his dad are at the family cabin when aliens come and scarper off with dad. Mom, who does not believe the whole alien abduction story, hooks up with a photographer who can't act. Three years later dad returns in the form of a crappily built alien suit. He attacks and rapes a woman, impregnating her. When she gives birth a few hours later it is to a full grown man. Dad's back to human form. I forgot what happened to the alien form, I think it just died. More stuff happens, some weird murders, sometimes not so well directed. There is an especially annoying scene involving clowns. This is a pretty gooey movie. Lots of viscus bodily fuction stuff, and cocooning. One of the reasons this movie has gained some fans, lots of egg laying. Dad has really returned to Earth to pick up his son and after being turned into nearly fleshless corpses they leave for the alien planet. Makes no sense, but there you go. Mom watches them go, she's been impregnated and is all fucked up. She returns to the apartment to find it painted all white now, with a black panther walking about. She's killed, not by the panther but by a face hugger type alien which bursts from an balloon egg. The soundtrack, by the director, is very annoying at times. I won't need to watch this movie again.
Eat the Rich I will watch again and again. Always in my top 100 movies. ALWAYS! This wonderful labor comedy is about class stuggle and cannibalism in England. Alex, a waiter at the very exculsive resturant BASTARDS, gets fired and after being homeless for 2 days leads a small civil uprising that starts and ends in bloodshed and jokes. There are lots of cruel jokes in this movie, and there is the eating of the Prime Minister. With chips. There is a secondary plot involving double agents who are trying to remove Nosher Powell from power for their bosses in Moscow. Lemmy, the lead singer and bass player of Motorhead, plays Spider, the main sidekick, and his band supply a lot of music for the soundtrack and they all appear in the movie. There are a ton of cameos in the movie. Here's the cast list. Written by Peter Richardson and Pete Richens, and directed by Richardson. Richardson, a Comic Strip member, also wrote and directed The Supergrass and The Pope Must Die.
Nosh, an all-in-wrestler, is now the Home Secretary, and as he says he can't even type. I love the character of Nosher Powell, he's a womanizing, hard drinking, gleefully punching cockney hardman. Nosh is wonderfully played by Nosher Powell, check out his filmlist at IMDb. He's bigger than life in his lime green suit, a wonderfully flawed character, loved by the public and the press in the movie and loved by the fans out here in the real world.
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