YMMV / Xtro

• Awesome Music: For all the film's problems, you cannot deny that the main theme is pretty damn awesome. In fact, most of the score is actually quite beautiful out of context. It helps that director/composer Harry Bromley Davenport is a classically trained pianist.
• Nausea Fuel: Sam's "rebirth", which involves him impregnating the cottage lady to give birth to himself - fully grown.
• Retroactive Recognition: Analise is played by Maryam d'Abo in her film debut, before becoming famous for being the Bond Girl in The Living Daylights.
• Squick: The birth scene, the "hickey" scenes and Analise's transformation.
• This Is Your Premise on Drugs: It's pretty much Alien by way of David Cronenberg as interpreted by a stoner. That last part is not an exaggeration, by the way — Davenport was regularly stoned during production of the film.
• Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: This was an issue that many critics, including Roger Ebert, had with the film — the tone is so spiteful and nihilistic that it's almost painful to watch.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: The practical effects are excellent, and have held up extremely well over the years. Sam's first form in particular is a real stand-out example.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not Symbolic?: Davenport has insisted that the film was only meant to shock people and there is "no thought to it at all", which scuppers any chance to interpret the film. Then again, this was two decades after he made the film and he was only one of FOUR writers on the film (not counting the producer's influence), so maybe he's unreliable.

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