Review of Xtro

Harry Bromley Davenport gorged himself on cheese and pickles and then dreamed up this visceral and fanciful cross with a meaningless title between 'The Omen' and 'E. T.' with lashings of sex & violence in which nubile young women get stalked and violated by slavering aliens and slavering men; while a young lad uses telekinesis to bring a toy soldier to life and creates his own new model army with the assistance of a pint-sized clown in a top hat.

All very Freudian, with an insistent synthesised score by the director. Sloe-eyed Bernice Stegers brings a robust presence to the boy's mother; while the female contingent also includes future Bond girl Maryam D'Abo and future 'Eastenders' star Anna Wing.