Xtro 3: Watch the Skies (1995) on Netflix
Lieutenant Martin Kirn recounts his final military mission to a reporter. Marines are sent to a deserted island to defuse bombs, and an alien creature terrorizes the men.
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Lieutenant Martin Kirn meets with a reporter in a rundown motel to recount his last military mission. The American government has hidden genuine evidence of unidentified flying objects from the public for decades, going back at least to World War II. A Marine task force is sent to a deserted island with orders to defuse an old bomb, and the men are not members of an elite unit. Kirn learns that Captain Fetterman picked these soldiers for the mission because they are expendable. The men soon suspect that something about the mission is amiss, and an alien creature terrorizes them.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Xtro 3: Watch the Skies (1995)
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- Four people were hurt making Xtro 3: visual effects supervisor Paul Sammon and actor Andrew Divoff cut their hands while filming at sea, actor Virgil Frye's leg was injured by a squib and actor Sal Landi hurt his back.
- Only 16 effects shots were planned for Xtro 3, but the number grew to 41 as the shoot went on, and director Harry Bromley Davenport refused to use a man inside a suit because it would not have worked for the expressive creature he wanted.
- The script described the alien only sparsely but made clear it was not humanoid; director Harry Bromley Davenport instead gave it a more relatable shape so that the audience would feel empathy for it.
- Supervisor Paul Sammon used Silicon Graphics workstations running Wavefront Explorer Pro, which brought digital compositing to low-budget films around that time.
