Underplayed Gems

Xtro 3: Watch the Skies (1995)

Xtro 3: Watch the Skies poster
Directed by
Harry Bromley Davenport
Genre
horror film, science fiction film, monster film
Country
United Kingdom, United States
Runtime
1h 30m
Rated
R
Rating
4.4 of 10 from 47 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

An alien comes to Earth to get revenge on the American government for experimenting on another alien four decades earlier. A group of people on a remote base confront this extraterrestrial threat.

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What happens

Xtro 3: Watch the Skies (also known as Xtro: Watch the Skies) is a 1995 science-fiction horror film directed by Harry Bromley Davenport and starring Sal Landi, Andrew Divoff, Karen Moncrieff, Jim Hanks, Virgil Frye and Robert Culp. It is the third installment in the series after Xtro and Xtro II: The Second Encounter, and is once again unconnected to the previous ones, other than through its alien intrusion themes. In it, an alien seeks revenge for experiments conducted by the American government on one of his fellow aliens forty years prior. It’s an international co-production film between the United Kingdom and the United States. Comedy podcast RiffTrax (Michael J. Nelson, Bill Corbett and Kevin Murphy) recorded and released a riff in 2024. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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