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Alien 2 sulla Terra (1980)
Country of Origin: Italy
Year of Production: 1980
Running Times: 81m/85m
Length:
Format:
Colour Format: Eastmancolor Technicolor
Ratio:
Sound:
DIRECTION
Directed by: Sam Cromwell (real name: Ciro Ippolito)
CREW
PRODUCTION
Production Company: Angiolo Stella, Ciro Ippolito present GPS
Cinematografica
Executive Producers: Ciro Ippolito for GPS
Produced by: Sam Cromwell (real name: Ciro Ippolito)
Production Manager: Nino Milano
Production Supervisor: Aldo Nibbi
SCRIPT
Written by: Sam Cromwell (real name: Ciro Ippolito)
DIRECTION
Continuity: Rossaria Cilento
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Silvio Fraschetti
Camera Operators: Oddone Bernardini, Federico del Zoppo
Assistant Cameramen: Ugo Menegatti, Robert Marsili
Action Stills: Roberto Galabro
Camera & Lighting Equipment: Cinenoleggio
Filmed in Eastmancolor
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Film Editor: Carlo Broglio
1st Assistant Editor: Angela Rosa Taccari
2nd Assistant Editor: Ernesto Triunveri
Processing Laboratory: Technicolor
MUSIC
Music by: The Oliver Onions (real names: Guido De Angelis, Maurizio
De Angelis)
SOUND
Sound Recording: Econ Studios for Cinitalia, Rome
COSTUMES AND MAKE-UP
Costumes by: Valeria Valenza
Seamstress: Maura Zuccherofino
Make-up: Lamberto Marini
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Donald Patterly
TITLES AND OPTICALS
Titles and Opticals: Studio Mafera
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designers: Angelo Matte, Mario Moll
Assistant Designer: Alvaro Passera
OTHER CREW
Production Secretary: Federica Lampronti
Unit Publicist: Kim Gatti
Speleological Consultant: Simone Pinto
LOCATIONS
[Filmed] on location and at Cinecitta' Studios
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The production thanks The Municipal Authorities of San Diego, California
and Casteliana Grotto, Italy for their kind collaboration
CAST
Belinda Mayne (Thelma)
Marc Bodin (Roy)
Robert Barrese
Benny Aldrich
Michael Shaw (real name: Michele Soavi)
Judy Perrin (Maureen)
Don Parkinson
Claudio Falanga
PLOT SUMMARY
Carnivorous aliens arrive on Earth attached to a returning space mission.
They lurk in a network of caves beneath San Diego where they are encountered
by a group of pot-holers who are picked off one-by-one.
CAPSULE REVIEW
A very silly rip-off of Alien (1979) that's so cheap it
can't even afford an out space setting. Dreadful camerawork and an irritating,
over-emphatic musical score do little to help the overall ambience and
the dubbing is as crass as you'd expect. The ending is probably the
best bit, but are you really prepared to sit through the rest of it
to get there? (Full
Review)
AVAILABILITY
France
Video Distributor: Lumieres/Carrere; Warner
Germany
Video Distributor: Greenwood
Italy
Theatrical Distributor: Impegno Cinematografica
Video Distributor: GVR
Netherlands
Video Distributor: EVC
UK
Video Distributor: VTC
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Alien 2 e Sulla Terra
Alien Terror - UK title
Alien 2
Strangers, The
Monstre Attaque, Le- French title
Alien - Die Saat des Grauens Kehrt Zuruck - German
title
LINKS
SEE ALSO
Alien (1979)
REFERENCES
MAGAZINES
Delirium 3 p.6 (UK)
credits, review
L'Ecran Fantastique no.13 pp.56-57 (France)
review
Flesh and Blood no.3 (1994) p.26 (UK)
illustrated credits, review
Giallo Guide 1987 (UK)
credits
Halls of Horror 27 p.16 (UK)
UK video data
Halls of Horror 30 p.12 (UK)
UK video data
Is It Uncut? 6 pp.4-5 (UK)
illustrated review
Rivista del Cinematografo no.6 (June
1981) p.310 (Italy)
credits
BOOKS
Hoffman's Guide to SF, Horror and Fantasy Movies
1991-1992 p.18
credits, review
Science Fiction Film Source Book p.24
credits
OTHER SOURCES
screen
credits
KEYWORDS
aliens; caves; san diego; spaceships; meteorite showers
Last Updated:
1 January, 2009
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