Customer Rating: Summary: this movie scared the bajeebies outta me Comment: I remember watching this movie on showtime or hbo back in the 80's and I know it was the movie that I still talk about that really made me jump in a projectile mode across the couch. I was hoping to get it in DVD so as to show it to a roommate of mine. Just can't find it except in VHS tape. That saddens me. Customer Rating: Summary: Great early 80s b grade sci-fi horror movie Comment: Its a good movie on its own terms and definitely one of the better ones of this type out there. Watching it makes me feel like a kid watching a good 50s horror movie. Its not a good movie like "Alien" but its obvious that somebody knew what they were doing, especially the production. Customer Rating: Summary: after "alien" roger corman rushed this and one other "rip-off "into production Comment: this is a roger corman quickie,produced after the hit "alien"
a spaceship is sent out to find the crew of another ship lost on a planet. after they get there the crew is attacked by there own fears and it becomes a case of who will live and who will die. if the f/x look like you have seen them before,you have in about 4 or 5 other corman produced sci-fi films. not great but a little better than your average rip-off,and far more fun. Customer Rating: Summary: Where's the DVD already?? Comment: I know this wasn't a great movie, but is has developed a cult following over the years. What I don't understand, is that this movie is in DVD in countrys like Itlaly and England. So, why not here in the States??
The last time I saw this movie, it was on an old VHS tape. As you can imagine the quality was awful. I am dying to see all the scenes in a more polished version that a DVD offers. Now it would be silly to think it would go through the digital enhancement one would like. That's too expensive for such a film as this, but it would make some company some money to do this. Hopefully they will soon.
As for the movie itself. I enjoyed it for what it was. A decent horror/sc-fi flick for it's time. I wish people would stop comparing it to Alien. All Sci-fi creature movies are alway compared to it...let movies stand on there one. This one does, it has a legendary scene with a blond girl and huge slimy creature. Alien never had that!!! And who could forget Erin Moran(good old innocent Joanie from Happy Days) get squished like a bug. Fun stuff.Look out for Freddy Krueger's Robert Englund in the cast. James Cameron got his start here too. There is quite a lot to this film and it's history so for God's sake...somebody buy the rights and put it out on DVD already!!! Customer Rating: Summary: One of the Better B Terror Films Comment: I saw this when first released at the theater. It was a great terror movie. The tension runs throughout the movie as a group tries to escape a planet that prays upon their fears. One scene with a giant caterpillar and a scantilly clad lady was rather erotic. A good movie for fans of movies like Hellraiser and Phantasm. Erin Moran and Robert Englund even do a decent job of acting. This is not something to take to serious, but to sit down and watch with a big bowl of popcorn some afternoon or evening. It certainly doesn't deserved to be put in the MST3K archive. Considering the time it was made and its budget I think it holds up pretty well. Look at how few SciFi movies that were made in the early 1980s have survived.
