Alien 2: On Earth (Alien 2: Sulla Terra), also known as Alien Terror and Strangers, is a 1980 science fiction film written and directed by Ciro Ippolito. Produced in United States and Italy, it is a low-budget, unofficial and unauthorized sequel to the 1979 film Alien, although the plot has little connection to the original film. It follows a group of friends as they go caving together, only to come into contact with a voracious alien creature that gestates inside a living human host, unwittingly brought to Earth by a doomed human spacecraft.
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| - Alien 2: On Earth (Alien 2: Sulla Terra), also known as Alien Terror and Strangers, is a 1980 science fiction film written and directed by Ciro Ippolito. Produced in United States and Italy, it is a low-budget, unofficial and unauthorized sequel to the 1979 film Alien, although the plot has little connection to the original film. It follows a group of friends as they go caving together, only to come into contact with a voracious alien creature that gestates inside a living human host, unwittingly brought to Earth by a doomed human spacecraft.
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| - Michele Soavi
- Belinda Mayne
- Benny Aldrich
- Claudio Falanga
- Don Parkinson
- Judy Perrin
- Mark Bodin
- Roberto Barrese
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| - Angiolo Stella
- Ciro Ippolito
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| - Guido De Angelis
- Maurizio De Angelis
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| - Cinema Shares International Distribution
- Fiesta Films
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| - Biagio Proietti
- Ciro Ippolito
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| - Alien 2: On Earth (Alien 2: Sulla Terra), also known as Alien Terror and Strangers, is a 1980 science fiction film written and directed by Ciro Ippolito. Produced in United States and Italy, it is a low-budget, unofficial and unauthorized sequel to the 1979 film Alien, although the plot has little connection to the original film. It follows a group of friends as they go caving together, only to come into contact with a voracious alien creature that gestates inside a living human host, unwittingly brought to Earth by a doomed human spacecraft. As an unauthorized sequel, 20th Century Fox had nothing whatsoever to do with the film's production and it is not considered a part of the official franchise. In fact, Fox attempted to sue director Ippolito $10,000,000 for using "Alien" in the film's title, but a British lawsuit pointed out that there was already a novel from the 1930s called Alien, and thus the case was dismissed. The concept of making unofficial sequels to mainstream theatrical productions was somewhat common in Italy during the 1970s and 1980s. Perhaps the most notable example of this trend is Zombi 2 (known variously as Zombie or Zombie Flesh Eaters internationally), which is an unofficial sequel to George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead that went on to find its own success and create a franchise of films.
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