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Alien 2: On Earth (1980)

The group retreats though they are forced to initially go back to retrieve their equipment. The group splits up into teams to search for a way out, but to no avail. During the search Thelma reflects on what is happening and wonders if the disappearance of the astronauts is connected. Maurine stumbles upon a group of aliens who kill her and Burt who tries to save her. Roy hurts his ankle and is forced to sit and rest. Cliff opts to go and locate Burt and Maurine while the others rest. Thelma telepathically warns Cliff of a nearby alien after their radio goes dead, though Cliff is killed by the alien. Thelma and the others find Cliff who is actually an alien in disguise. Thelma uses her abilities to explode the imposter's head revealing the alien. The alien attacks the other member of the group while Thelma and Roy outrun the alien and escape the caves. On their way back to the city, they discover a police car, but no police officers are in sight. They stop at the roadside café again, but no one is there. Roy tries to call for help on a payphone, but no operator is available. They get back into the car and continue to drive to the city.

Thelma and Roy finally get back to the city, but strangely, they cannot find anyone. They stop at the bowling alley, only to find that it is also empty. Roy goes to the back, only to be killed by an alien waiting there. The alien chases Thelma through the bowling alley, until she hits it in the head and leaves. Thelma runs through the empty city streets, calling for help but getting no answer. She finally stops yelling and sits down in an intersection. Suddenly, text shoots at the screen, warning the audience \"You may be next!\", implying that the aliens have taken over Earth.

The Assimilator: The creature's adult form is a shape-shifter that has the ability to assimilate other life-forms, not unlike the creature from The Thing (1982). Body Horror: Inevitable given this is an Alien rip-off. Like the Xenomorphs, the rock creatures lay eggs in host bodies and literally burst from them once they have outlived their purpose. Bolivian Army Ending: After finally beating the creature to death in the bowling alley, Thelma runs through the empty city streets, calling for help but getting no answer. She finally stops yelling and sits down at an intersection, despondent, as text on screen warns the audience, \"...You may be next!\" Bowling for Ratings: Before embarking on their ill-fated caving expedition, Thelma, her husband Roy, and their friends meet at a bowling alley for a short game. It is at this same bowling alley that the finale takes place. Chest Burster: Or rather, face burster. Combat Tentacles: The rock creatures use these to attack their victims and inject them with their larvae. Daylight Horror: The finale takes place in a deserted city in broad daylight. Death of a Child: After the spacecraft returns to Earth with its occupants missing, a girl on a beach discovers a weird, blue, pulsating rock. Soon after the discovery, her mother finds the girl dead, her face having been ripped off. Downer Ending: At first, it appears that Thelma has successfully defeated the creature. Then, once she exits the bowling alley, it becomes clear that she is the only person still alive within the city limits, and it's implied she may also be the last surviving member of the human species. Facial Horror: All over the place thanks to the rock creatures, with a young girl having her face torn off and several of the spelunkers' faces being ripped apart as the creatures' larval forms exit their bodies. Fanservice: Thelma and Roy have a lengthy, fully-nude sex scene. Final Girl: Thelma is the only member of the expedition to survive the events of the film. Gorn: While Alien had its share of gruesome scenes, most infamously Kane's death by chestburster, it relied mostly on atmosphere to create its sense of dread. This film, on the other hand, piles on the gore like there's no tomorrow. In Name Only: Beyond the title, the film has virtually nothing in common with its namesake. Most notably, while the plot of Alien took place in the 22nd century, this one appears to take place in the present day. And while the rock creatures share the Xenomorphs' key trait of gestating inside a human host, each stage of their life cycle is otherwise quite different. Mouth Cam: Towards the end, as one of the alien monsters attacks the protagonist, the camera is placed inside its mouth. Off with His Head!: While the team prepares to climb out of a hole, one of the creatures explodes from Jill's face and grabs Phil by the neck with its tentacles. Phil is then dragged upside down as the creature slices at his neck repeatedly until his head and part of his spine fall off. Psychic Powers: Thelma experience regular psychic premonitions, and also appears to be telepathic. Her telepathic abilities seem strangely limited, though, considering she fails to notice the rest of humanity being killed by the rock creatures. Stock Footage: The not!Nostromo's return to Earth is represented by stock footage of Apollo capsule splashdowns. Trailers Always Lie: An Australian VHS trailer features scenes from the film set to excerpts from Jerry Goldsmith's score to Alien in order to pass it off as a direct sequel. Would Hurt a Child: The rock creature's first victim is a young girl walking on a beach. Your Head A-Splode: A side effect of the creature's reproductive methods.

In terms of an Alien sequel, it just isn't one. I don't know if Ciro Ippolito even saw Ridley Scott's movie before he made this. This is set in then-present of 1980, so cannot possibly be a sequel to Alien, which was in the far future. The movie opens with some blurry stock footage of real life space exploration. But there is no indication this is The Nostromo or Ripley's escape pod. In fact, the spaceship has nothing to do with anything because our heroes are cave explorers. The killer monsters may or may not be aliens at all, and who knows if they have anything to do with that opening.

The \"aliens\" do bury inside bodies and burst out your face though. That's the one thing Alien 2: On Earth has: gore. Right from the start the aliens attack a little girl on the beach. We see her face carved inward like she's made out of watermelon. Then later there's a decent head explosion.

Alien 2 actually has more to do with The Descent than Alien. Most of the movie takes place in a dark cave. That sounds a lot scarier than it actually is. There's some decent footage of stalactites and stuff. Being trapped in a cave with monsters should be terrifying. But you have no sense of geography or even claustrophobia. It is just character running around same-y looking backgrounds, sometimes getting eaten. You barely get to see the alien! There's no clear money shot of the monster at any point.

'Alien 2 on Earth' is a terrible movie, but I guess that's to be expected with any film whose sole existence is to take advantage of a trademark loophole. There's barely any semblance of a plot here, and due to the extreme low-budget nature of the production the movie is padded with loads of stock footage and frivolous tedium of people taking their sweet time transporting themselves from one place to another. In fact, it takes a good thirty minutes or so before we even get our first glimpse of an alien, and even then it's just a crumpled mass likely made out of paper mâche. The acting is awful, the dialog is atrocious, and both are made even worse by horrible dubbing (though the voice dub of the African American dude in the bowling alley is so stereotypically over-the-top that it's both offensive and an unintentional riot at the same time).

Plus, you know a movie has to be bad when its lackluster ending manages to gain more infamy than its borderline-infringing title. I'm treading down spoiler territory here so be warned, but after witnessing most of her friends being killed by some alien monstrosity and narrowly escaping with her own life, the very next place Thelma goes is the bowling alley for her final confrontation. It really is the king of all anti-climactic climaxes.

Un grupo de espeleólogos investiga una gruta y se topan con unos extraños minerales de origen desconocido. La joven que guía al grupo comienza a notar que minerales son huevos alienígenas, y sus camaradas son presas de metamorfosis de origen extraterrestre.

A space module lands on Earth after a failed mission, but the astronauts have been replaced by hideous creatures that can penetrate people's bodies and make them explode. A group of speleologists are attacked by the alien monsters inside an underground cave, but the survivors are in for a surprise when they finally escape the trap.

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