LOL I just noticed the eyes... I have no explanation really haha.

Your translation of the Italian title is correct. There was a tendency in Italy to alterate some titles to give an imediate indication of the genre, the choice of the new title would come from previous famous movies.

I give you an example. Since 2001: Odissey in Space, a lot of movies have had the futuristic year put before the title to indicate a sci-fi movie, so we get stuff like "1997: Fuga da New York" ("1997: Escape from New York" instead of just "Escape from New York"). "2022 - I Sopravvissuti" (2020-The Survivors) instead of "Soylent Green" (yuck!).

The explanation of "The Man Who Escaped From The Future" comes from another classic sci fi movie, "Time Machine" (1960) which in Italy was released as "The Man Who Lived in the Future". So they made THX as the man who escaped it. Funny uh? I've recently opened a blog just about all this stuff lol