The greatest movie ever!

From my favorite movies..

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

I have been trying to see this film for years as I love to watch old obscure horror films. They do not have to be good or considered classic for me to hunt them down, I just enjoy watching them whether they be good, bad or ugly. Upon finally seeing this one, I have to say it has some things going for it, but overall it is a bit slow and underdone. The film at the beginning talks about this space pod returning to earth, we have an interview with the star female of the piece where we learn she is apparently psychic. She then heads to the ocean where she meets this guy who I have no clue who he is or what his purpose other than to introduce us to the fact that our heroine suffers from fears of monsters. We are soon treated to a scene with a mother and small girl that ends very nicely in one of the few good scenes of the movie. She then goes to the bowling alley to meet up with her fellow spelunkers and they proceed to have a long drawn out drive. They end up at a little place where outside one of the group finds a beautiful rock he just has to pick up. They finally make it to the cave where we get the privilege of seeing every member of the group repel down a line in the dark with their headlamp shining. They then pitch tents in the cave, which silly me, I figure all one really needs in a cave is a sleeping bag. Finally, after more cavorting in the cave the alien attacks and general mayhem ensues. Well not really, we are treated to every second of a rescue then a slow moving camera going across a body of a female and then some more cool stuff happens followed by another long stretch of nothing. You can see the problem, I am afraid the makers of this film were so enthralled with the cave that they forgot multiple times that they were supposed to be making an alien horror movie. There is some potential in this one, as there is a great kill involving a guy losing his head, also a nice attack on a couple as the cave seems to be alive. All the on screen kills are pretty good, just to much padding. The finale is particularly weak as we do not get to see any more cool deaths only a woman running from a point of view monster that at one point looked as if the monster was running from her. The makers of this film really did not seem to have a vision on what they wanted their monster to look like. Suffice to say at its best it looked like snakes, at worst hosepipe. More cool deaths, a faster moving story would have helped here immensely as would have a more climatic ending. Seriously, they showed nothing at the end to make the end cool. So just a bit of a bore for the most part with some very nice death scenes scattered here and there and a very nice topless shot of the lead girl. And you find out the best way out of a cave too, it is apparently to run fast, then in slow motion all at the same time to the point the fast you far surpasses the slow motion you.

This was originally known as "Alien 2", but the only thing it has in common with the original "Alien" is...an alien. Maybe they should have called it "Alien Too". In any case, they were sued to change the name, and this is grade-z crap under any title. A couple of astronauts are missing from a shuttle after its re-entry to earth, and mysterious blue "rocks" appear at the same time. Twenty-some pointless minutes later and a research crew is in an underground cave, with one of the blue rocks in tow. The dubs here are awful, especially the female protagonist, whose breathless delivery verges on vomit-inducing (which is more than can be said for the gore effects). I must admit, I did not watch the entire movie, as five minutes of it were spent making a sandwich while the movie wandered on aimlessly in the background. The best part is when a guy's head flies off while he's hanging upside down, and the head hits the earth with a resounding thud. That got a few chuckles out of me. The dialog is fittingly moronic. "How could those astronauts disappear?" asks one woman, "I wish I knew" responds her dim-witted compatriot, even though this is AFTER the aliens have already attacked them. Hmmm, maybe their disappearance has something to do with these dang aliens. Add in a cringe-worthy ending, complete with a "...you might be next!" warning and you have a competitor for worst movie of all time, in my humble opinion. This probably ended up as a MST3K episode (I wouldn't know, I hate that stupid show) but if it didn't, it is surely ripe for that treatment. Luckily this movie is long out of print, but if you do stumble upon it, heed my warning: AVOID AT ALL COSTS!!!

Well, I´m glad other people have seen this movie, because for once I thought that I had imagined it. I went to the movies that day thinking it to be an official sequel to Ridley Scott´s Alien, and I was only 9 years old. I saw the first Alien when I was seven, my mom had to bribe the theater´s clerk in order to let me in, because, in my country, at that time, those type of horror films were restricted for people over 16. But she knew that I, an early fan of sci-fi, since the age of five, would love the first Alien, and actually I did. So, I went on and decided to see Alien 2 as well, a few years later, unaware that it was only an italian flick, with no connection whatsoever to the first one. If the first Alien happened to be an experience in terror, due to the masterful editing and camera work(you never see the monster, but you feel its menacing presence), this one was a major experience in gore, because the monster itself, that comes off some rocks that fell from space, looks like a blood jelly of some kind, that penetrates human body and melts its victims, producing more blood jelly. The only survivor is the hot female lead, who, due to some unexplained mind capacities, is spared by the jelly-monster. She and the monster are the only survivors, since everyone else is destroyed, in the end. Some of the most horrid scenes of the eighties´ cinema can be seen in this low budget experience. Among them, a little girl has her face "eaten" by the monster, some of the cave explorers literally explode in contact with the monster, including one of them who melts to the point of losing his head. Really horrible, and no fun...

Horrid film that follows eight cave explorers on an expedition that gets ruined by a blood-thirsty alien rock. A fair few bloody deaths, (face sucks, heads falling off; stuff like that) but mainly very hard to watch or understand.