Alien 2: On Earth

Alien 2 - Sulla terra (1980)
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Production
Release date
Budget
$400 000 000
Director
Photo Ciro Ippolito
Ciro Ippolito
Scenario
Photo Ciro Ippolito
Ciro Ippolito
Composer
Guido De Angelis
Producer
Photo Ciro Ippolito
Ciro Ippolito
Actors
Photo Belinda Mayne
Belinda Mayne
Thelma Joyce
Photo Mark Bodin
Mark Bodin
Roy
Benedetta Fantoli
Maureen
Roberto Barrese
Speleologist
Judy Perrin
Jill
Danilo Micheli
Bill
Photo Ciro Ippolito
Ciro Ippolito
TV Studio Director
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Short description

A group of cave explorers ventures underground and encounters a strange living rock. The stone turns out to be connected to deadly, flesh-eating creatures with designs on the human population. The story also involves a returning space capsule whose crew has vanished, leaving only puzzling blue stones that a spelunking team later finds. The explorers discover too late what the rock really is, and a fight for survival follows.

Released in Italy in 1980, the film is an Italian horror and science fiction production directed by Ciro Ippolito and Biagio Proietti, with Ippolito also writing the screenplay and producing alongside Angiolo Stella. Belinda Mayne heads the cast as Thelma Joyce, supported by Mark Bodin, Michele Soavi, Benedetta Fantoli, Roberto Barrese and Judy Perrin. It runs 85 minutes.

The film is an unofficial, unauthorized companion piece to the 1979 film Alien, with little plot connection to it. Audience response has been weak: on IMDb it holds a rating of 3.7 from roughly 1,900 votes, and on TMDB it sits at 3.5 from about 79 votes, indicating a small and largely dissatisfied viewership across both platforms.

What's left behind the scenes

  • This film has no connection to the movie 'Alien'. Director Ciro Ippolito decided to capitalize on the wave of popularity following the success of Ridley Scott's film. 20th Century Fox filed a lawsuit against Ippolito for the unauthorized use of the word 'Alien' in the title, but the legal proceedings were unsuccessful. The director's lawyer managed to prove in court that the film was allegedly based on a novella titled 'Alien' from the 1930s and did not rely on Ridley Scott's sci-fi movie.

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