| Alien 2: On Earth | |
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| Directed by | Ciro Ippolito (as Sam Cromwell) Biagio Proietti (uncredited) |
| Produced by | Ciro Ippolito Angiolo Stella |
| Written by | Ciro Ippolito |
| Starring | Belinda Mayne Mark Bodin Roberto Barrese Benny Aldrich Michele Soavi Judy Perrin Don Parkinson Claudio Falanga |
| Music by | Guido De Angelis, Maurizio De Angelis (as The Oliver Onions) |
| Distributed by | Cinema Shares International Distribution (1980, USA) Fiesta Films (1981, Canada) |
| Release date(s) | April 11, 1980 (Italy) |
| Running time | 92 min. |
| Language | English / Italian |
Alien 2: On Earth (Alien 2 sulla Terra), also known as Alien Terror and Strangers, is a 1980 Italian sequel to the 1979 American film Alien, written and directed by Ciro Ippolito before the mark Alien was registered. The plot has no connection to the original film.
The film features a score by Guido De Angelis and Maurizio De Angelis, performed by the composers under the pseudonym Oliver Onions.
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As the world awaits the return of a crew of astronauts from a deep space mission, a young woman called Thelma Joyce begins to have horrible psychic visions. After the spacecraft returns to Earth missing its occupants, people begin discovering weird, pulsating rocks, which are revealed to be the eggs of an alien creature that incubates inside human hosts.
Adam Tyner of DVD Talk wrote, "James Cameron once summed up his followup to Alien as 'forty miles of bad road'. Alien 2, meanwhile, is 'eighty-four minutes of bad, period'."[1]
Daryl Loomis of DVD Verdict said, "Some people will say that Alien 2: On Earth is a blatant ripoff and some will say that it's a terrible movie. All of those people are right, but given my track record, nobody should be surprised that I love it."[2]
J.C. Maçek III of WorldsGreatestCritic.com wrote, "But watching Alien 2, I can't see how anyone could ever get this even vaguely confused with Ridley Scott's Sci-Fi/ Horror Masterpiece. Watching Alien 2 is less a grippingly realistic experiment in otherworldly terror, and more an intestine voiding experience in passing a stone. There is no confusing these flicks."[3]
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