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The huge
evil monster against the little, poor but clever human being. And we don’t talk
about the plot of "Alien 2 on Earth", but about the story of this
film, which it the end is more interesting than the movie. Protagonist is Ciro
Ippolito who here signs as Sam Crowell and which we know that he gives to the
cinema rare trash pearls. A great b’s director that one take a break while is
editing a movie with Mario Merola. In this break he goes to the cinema to see
"Alien" by Ridley Scott and on the road he sees the poster of
"Zombi 2" by Lucio Fulci. Sbam. Idea. Genius. Cheek.
Without a
plot on hand he announces the film on "Variety", he convinces always
with nothing in his hands, the distributors of "Zombi 2" to give him
some money. He leave for Cannes, spends all and still he doesn’t have a shred
of history, but he sees a report on Frassassi caves. Sbam. Idea. Genius. Cheek.
He takes brochure of the caves, modifies it, and passes it for the set of the
film.
"Alien
2 on Earth" production begins. The director is Biagio Proietti who
abandoned the set after only one week. Ippolito think to call the great Mario
Bava, but he is working on another movie, but gives to Ippolito two great and important
advices. He says to Ippolito to shot himself and to make the monster with
tripe.
The caves
of Castellana, are the set of the film with the basement of a house in Rome
(where arrives the police called by the residents worried for blood and noise) where
this 1980 film born.
The "20th
Century Fox " became really angry. Because apart from the
"plagiarism" the film doesn’t go unnoticed, in fact, it is presented
in great style in the "Chinese Theatre". The "20th Century"
sues, try to buy the film to destroy it, but nothing, the American company monster
must surrender to the small, poor and ingenious Italian.
If only for
this story, told to "Stracult", the Ippolito film earns sympathy and
esteem. And if that were not enough, we must underline the incredible flash of
genius of the setting. Because Ippolito does not set the story in an expensive spaceship,
no, he sets it on the Earth, in the aforementioned caves setting up a crazy
link between the monster that comes from space and speleology.
In
addition, the film opens with a bold macho statement "Why a pretty girl
prefers the caves instead of shopping?", So ugly and vulgar that again
gives sympathy to this work.
The monster
instead comes in at the blue colored eggs attached to a return space rocket
from the cosmos. One of these is catch by one of the speleologist who venture into the caves. In the group there
is also Thelma Joyce that besides show her tits has paranormal powers that anticipate
disasters. Many deaths and disfigured bodies by a monster (made of tripe), that
we often see in subjective and that has easy game in the caves. A body count
that saves only the protagonist who realizes, once she returned to the surface,
that the human race has been exterminated.
The
unlikely and boring story and very little budget are accompanied well giving us
a great b movie. Ipppolito, it must be said, do his duty and all in all the
cast, made up of film actors gender (including Michele Soavi), is not out of
place in a film that anticipates many years the various sequels of the true
"Alien". Excellent music by Oliver Onions.