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Harry Bromley-Davenport (born 15 March 1950 in London, England) is an English film director and producer as well as at the beginning of his career a screenwriter. He is most popular for the famous horror science-fiction video nasty Xtro (1983). He left the UK in 1990 and currently resides in Los Angeles. He became an American citizen ...
März 1950 in London) ist ein britischer Regisseur, Filmproduzent und Drehbuchautor sowie Filmmusikkomponist. Inhaltsverzeichnis. 1 Leben. 2 Filmografie (Auswahl) 3 Weblinks. 4 Anmerkungen. Leben. Harry B. Davenport gab 1976 sein Regiedebüt mit dem Film Whispers of Fear, für den er auch das Drehbuch verfasste.
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As Sam Phillips and his son Tony are playing outside their farm, Sam is suddenly abducted by a bright light. Three years later, the light returns and plants a seed. A half-human, half-alien creature develops from the seed, and is hit by a car; the couple in the car are soon killed. The creature then goes to a cottage nearby, where it attacks and im...
Producer Mark Forstater got involved in Xtro when the director Harry Bromley Davenport came to him with a script written by him and Michel Patty. The two had previously met during a screening of Davenport’s directorial debut Whispers of Fear, which impressed Forstater.The film was financed by Ashley Productions Ltd., a subsidiary of a British inves...
Alan Jones wrote in a July issue of Cinefantastique that Xtro was initially set to be released by New Line later in 1982. In December 1982, an article in Fangoria scheduled the film for release in February 1983. Xtrowas released in March 1983 in the United Kingdom. When released on home video in 1983, the film was subject to a prosecution case in r...
It was released on DVD three times in the US by Image Entertainment. The first DVD was released in 2005 as a double feature with sequel Xtro II: The Second Encounter. The second was released in 2006 as a standalone release. The third, released in 2007, was a triple feature alongside Xtro II and Skeeter. In the UK, the Xtro trilogy was released in b...
Among contemporary reviewers, Alan Jones wrote in Starburst that the film has "occasional flashes of tangential inspiration" but was "really nothing very xtro-ordinary", finding that scenes did not scare him "or even disgusted [him] to any great extent" and that he would have liked more characterisation and that Bernice Stegers was "horribly miscas...
Director Harry Bromley Davenport made two sequels to the film, Xtro II: The Second Encounter and Xtro 3: Watch the Skies. Neither film had anything to do with the original film. In March 2011, Davenport confirmed that Xtro 4 - The Big Oneis in the works.
Gifford, Denis (2001) [1973]. The British Film Catalogue. Vol. 1 (3rd ed.). Routledge. ISBN 978-1-57958-171-8.Hunter, Stephen (2 July 1983). "'Xtro': A British Horror Flick Ups the Ooze Factor". The Baltimore Sun. p. A8.Imeson, Jo (April 1983). "Xtro". Monthly Film Bulletin. Vol. 50, no. 591. British Film Institute. p. 109.Martin, Bob (December 1982). "Xtro". Fangoria. Vol. 3, no. 24.Xtro at IMDbXtro at AllMovieXtro at Rotten TomatoesBiography. Awards. Trivia. IMDbPro. All topics. Harry Bromley Davenport. Director. Producer. Actor. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. Harry Bromley Davenport was born on 15 March 1950 in London, England, UK. He is a director and producer, known for Life Among the Cannibals (1999), Xtro (1982) and Erasable You (1998). Born March 15, 1950.
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Xtro - Attacco alla Terra ( Xtro) è un film del 1982 diretto da Harry Bromley Davenport . Film di fantascienza che ha avuto due seguiti: Il ritorno dell'alieno (1990) e Xtro 3: Watch the Skies (1995). [1] Indice. 1 Trama. 2 Note. 3 Voci correlate. 4 Collegamenti esterni. Trama. Sam Phillips viene rapito dagli alieni.
Language. English. Xtro 3: Watch the Skies (sometimes credited as Xtro: Watch the Skies) is a 1995 science-fiction horror thriller film directed by Harry Bromley Davenport and starring Sal Landi, Andrew Divoff, Karen Moncrieff and Jim Hanks.
Harry Bromley Davenport, regista del film Xtro - Attacco alla Terra (1982), riuscì in qualche modo a mantenere i diritti del nome Xtro, ma non i diritti della storia.
