Xtro

Harry Bromley Davenport (born March 15, 1950 in London, England) is an English director, producer as well as in the beginning of his career a film screenwriter. He is most popular for the famous horror science-fiction video nasty Xtro (1983).

Bromley Davenport entered the film business in 1967 as an assistant to Nicholas Ray.

Following his apprenticeship, Bromley Davenport made his directorial debut with the little seen Whispers of Fear (1976) and co-wrote the screenplay for The Haunting of Julia (1977), which was adapted from the Peter Straub novel Julia (1975) and starred Mia Farrow in the titular role.

His biggest commercial success came in the form of Xtro (1983) which spawned two unrelated in title only sequels. He made the second installment Xtro II: The Second Encounter (1991) in the USA, and worked exclusively there ever since.

Bromley Davenport remained within his own low-budget franchise for one for film and hired Daryl Haney to write the screenplay for Xtro 3: Watch the Skies (1995). This began an ongoing professional relationship between Bromley Davenport and Daryl Haney, which ultimately changed the direction of Bromley Davenport’s career, culminating in a trio of films that are arguably his finest works: Life Among the Cannibals (1996), Erasble You (1998) and the true story Mockingbird Don’t Sing (2001), starring Sean Young.

Even though he has made many deviations from the exploitation field since Xtro (1983) the stigma is still attached, as Bromley Davenport himself admits that: “Getting a start in exploitation films, as I did, suddenly became unfashionable about 20 years ago, and such movies are now regarded as smut, despite the fact that they gave Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Jim Cameron, Joe Dante, Jonathan Demme and countless others their first opportunities to direct a professional movie.”

In early 2010 Bromley Davenport announced that Xtro 4 is on the way. —Wikipedia