Xtro 2: The Second Encounter

Xtro 2: The Second Encounter (1990)

Part Alien. Part Predator. All Terror.

An underground government facility is locked down by its A.I.-controlled computer when an alien entity travels through a dimensional portal and threatens the lives of everybody inside.

Date of release
1990-05-04
TMDB
4.7 / 10 (58)
Runtime
1h 32m
Genres
Horror, Science Fiction
Director
Harry Bromley Davenport
Collection
Xtro Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

Xtro II: The Second Encounter is a 1991 British–Canadian science fiction horror film directed by Harry Bromley Davenport and starring Jan-Michael Vincent, Paul Koslo, Tara Buckman and Nicholas Lea. It is the second installment of the Xtro franchise, although is narratively distinct from the original. In it, a scientist is sent to another dimension by a secret government experiment, but brings back a murderous extraterrestrial creature which hunts down the research base's personnel. The film was conceived by Davenport, who retained the rights to the Xtro title and licensed them to Canadian producers.

Production

In need of a job, director Harry Bromley Davenport discovered that, although he did not retain ownership of Xtro's story, he had a legal claim to the title itself, which enabled him to continue the series as a loose anthology about extraterrestrial encounters.

Photography started on 23 March 1990, and lasted five weeks. Only bits of the movie were shot on location, and the vast majority of filming took place inside Pilot One Studios, located on the former Expo 86 site in North American Pictures' hometown of Vancouver, British Columbia. This was North American's first 35 mm production. It was also the first time they employed a true art department.

The biggest problems were attributed to the leading man's behavior, as the British helmer later reflected: "It was an awful film with a drunkard Jan Michael Vincent wandering around, throwing up and hitting people. He was ghastly. [...] He couldn’t play a scene with somebody else because he was so out of it that he couldn’t remember his lines, or what the scene was. He made no effort at all in that film.

The bulk of the creature effects, which incorporated miniatures and stop-motion animation, were handled by Cyberflex Films under the direction of Greg Derochie. The alien was designed by Cyberflex members Charlie Grant and Wayne Dang. Prosthetic make-up was handled by the ET & Company team headed by Tibor Farkas and Bill Terezakis, who had recently worked on the Vancouver-shot Friday the 13th Part VIII.

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