ALIEN 2 - SULLA TERRA
Ciro Ippolito / Italy / 1980 / 92 min / Colour
After seeing Ridley Scott's film Alien in 1980, the director Ciro Ippolito and the producer Angiolo Stella decided to make an apocryphal sequel, in the wake of others made in those years. With a tiny budget and home-made special effects, the two filmed almost all of the scenes in the caves of Castellana, in Puglia. Alien 2 - On Earth narrates the story of a sensitive speleologist who, guided by her unusual powers of perception, discovers within a cave the presence of alien eggs that arrived following a space mission. From these eggs are born slimy, disturbing creatures that will provoke the destruction of humanity.
Ciro Ippolito
Born in 1947 in Naples, he is a producer, screenwriter, actor and director. Son of a theatre manager, he was first exposed to cinema as a child, even collaborating with Roberto Rossellini in his youth. As a director, he is best known for films made in the 1980s (Lacrime napulitane, Zampognaro innamorato) and for his trash works, such as Arrapaho (1984) now a cult film in that genre.
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Subject Ciro IppolitoScreenplay Ciro IppolitoCinematography Silvio FraschettiEditing Carlo BroglioMusic Oliver OnionsMain cast Belinda Mayne, Mark Bodin, Robert Barrese, Benedetta Fantoli, Michele Soavi, Valeria Perilli, Donald Hodson, Ciro IppolitoProducer Ciro Ippolito, Angiolo StellaProduction company GPS
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