Creature (1985)

This is one of those movies, I videe on many an occasion. Creature is a bad movie, I'm not gonna lie, but it is entertaining if only for the actors, and this includes Ferris Bueller's Dad. This movie sci fi horror, dishes out a lot of nasty gore, fans will be totally satisfied, where this flick makes Alien look small time. The movie's entertaining savior is that of the great Klaus Kinski, a seedy stranger who stumbles onto this spaceship, and holds the key to the monstrous creature, responsible for reducing the numbers on the crew, first taking over the bodies. Sound familiar? It too, reminds me of that other horror, 1981's Inseminoid. Creature is much more quietly and respectively hidden on the video shelves, but's it well worth the view. It's the crew and of cause Kinski that make it. One weird woman of crew (talking about reserved?) not one you wanna screw with, who hasn't spoken for three months, breaks her silence, and provides the last comic line in the film, that's a killer, among the usual survivor rates in these yarns. That at least,it's worth the video rental fee.

Creature is a highly dated looking scifi effort that has taken more than a little bit of inspiration from Alien (1979).It's a dark gloomy movie about a team of scientists fighting for their lives from this formidable foe who also has the ability of turning humans bad........which is never fully explained.The "Creature" sticks to the shadows and when you finally do see it I can confidently say it's basically a xenomorph.Messy and unlikeable this b-movie scifi brings nothing new to the table and will appeal only to the most hardcore of scifi fans.The Good: Not so much The Bad: Aged badly Whole thing is a bit of a ripoff Things I Learnt From This Movie: In space nobody can hear you get sued

William Malone's Creature (AKA Titan Find) is another shameless, low-budget rip-off of Ridley Scott's sci-fi classic Alien, one that tries to compensate somewhat for its complete lack of originality with the inclusion of some reasonable spacecraft model effects, gratuitous female nudity and a spot of gore. Sadly, it isn't nearly enough to make up for the unimaginative direction, derivative script, weak acting (Klaus Kinski is the only recognisable name, and he's not much cop here), and one of the rubberiest Xenomorph knock-offs you're ever likely to see.The film starts as two idiots investigate the site of an alien menagerie on Saturn's moon of Titan; with very little regard for their safety, these morons mess around with a strange canister containing a seemingly long-dead creature, and pay for their stupidity with their lives after the extraterrestrial proves to be very much alive, and very hungry. Another team of experts is dispatched to find out what happened, but also run into the ravenous alien, which can control the bodies of its victims via the use of biological control devices (gelatinous parasites that latch onto the brain).Viewers can expect lots of wandering around very dark corridors—poorly lit so as to disguise the cheapness of the sets and the shoddiness of the monster—all of which gets very tedious, very quickly. Director Malone achieves very little in the way of genuine scares or atmosphere, but manages one or two scenes memorable for their sheer stupidity (the man lured to his death by the naked chick is particularly daft, as is one character's ability to survive the planet's atmosphere and extreme temperature without a helmet). Splattery highlights include a woman getting her head chewed off by the creature, a man having his face ripped to shreds, and a very juicy exploding noggin effect.3.5/10, rounded up to 4 for the gore.

This movie is 97 minutes of pure terribleness. There are just really no saving factors for it. Obviously the team sets themselves up for destruction in the start as they decided to land (against the only smart cast member's orders) in a crevice where another ship has already gone silent. Even after they crash and people start dying, rather than sticking together, they run off in separate directions getting infected left and right. It's like a Benny Hill music should be playing in the background as one individual commands the next to "go to engineering" where characters keep dying one by one. The cast is terrible. Not only does pretty much every character look and speak the same, but the lead actor Klaus Kinski(in the last 5 years of his life) I believe has truly become crazy. His constant switching between German and English is hard to understand and annoying. I could make a better creature with poster tubes, some engine oil and fake teeth. The special effects are god awful, as well as the most of the props look like straight out of Dollar Tree. Every time a door opens, I hear a tie fighter shooting the place up. The little bit of gore that was in the movie wasn't horrible, but hardly makes up for the sheer ridiculousness of the creature, characters, and plot. I'd say the entire $750,000 of the budget was used on the one good head explosion the movie had. We podcasted this movie along with the 2011 Creature and recommend exactly neither of them. Stay away...stay far away....I usually will give one out of ten stars for acknowledging that yes, this is indeed a movie. I will give it a second for mediocre gore and the nostalgia of Klaus Kinski.Check us out for more movie reviews by looking up Motion Picture Meltdown on Facebook, Unitedcypher.net, or MPMPodcast on Twitter.