Inseminoid (1981)

I bought 3 movies recently in a pack, horror planet, galaxy of terror and creature.To be quit honest horror planet is not as good as galaxy of terror and creature but it does not deserve the very low rating it is getting.There are so pretty cool gory effect in the movie, the acting is not that bad and you have a few good actors in there too.The special effects are what you would expect from a 80 sci fi horror movie nothing to compare with alien but still not that bad either.This movie deserves a higher rating at least a 6 not a 3.4 like it as right now.

Exploitation director Norman J. Warren turned his sights away from his more traditional settings, usually remote houses in the countryside, to concentrate on a barren and murky alien planet where hideous things lurked in the shadows. Unfortunately his film actually used the Chislehurst Caves as a setting, cheap perhaps but not entirely convincing. This low-budget ALIEN derivative is definitely worth a watch for those who can take Warren's trademark violence and unpleasantness, but the potential is wasted in favour of too much running about in the dark.The plot starts off well, culminating in a monstrous and deeply unpleasant alien rape sequence, but it all goes downhill from there. The writers didn't seem to know how to carry the premise through and squandered it in favour of having their cast be picked off one by one after obeying the typical conventions of the slasher film, i.e. acting extremely stupidly by splitting up and running down a gloomy corridor. Much of the film, after the initial set up, is merely a series of violent murders, each one different from the last to give some variety. The gore content is high, with a woman being stabbed with a pair of scissors (an image Warren seems rather fond of), somebody sawing their own foot off when it gets jammed, and even some cannibal scenes where stomachs are torn open and intestines torn out.The acting is generally amateurish, with the smaller roles performed by unfamiliar faces who are adequate at delivering their lines but offer no personality or realism to their characters. Robin Clarke, as the hero, gives a rather stilted delivery, but I quite liked him. Stephanie Beacham, nearly a decade on from Dracula AD 1972, has a good role as a tough female crew member but even she is relegated to running around and hanging on the hero's arm at the end of the film. The best performance, though, comes from Judy Geeson, who is excellent as the woman possessed by an alien force and who will stop at nothing to care for her alien offspring. The torment she suffers as she's torn between her human and alien sides is excellent, Natasha Henstridge could have used her as inspiration for her role in SPECIES but sadly didn't. Geeson manages to be sympathetic, and gives a chilling portrayal of evil and madness.Unfortunately the alien creature itself is far too rubbery to be effective. It reminded me of the title design in THE FLY, and quite probably served as an inspiration for it. The alien babies are okay and thankfully only used briefly, so that we don't get time to see how they work. There are some nice low budget explosions and action to keep things moving along, but in the end it all comes down to the fact that we've seen it all before, and this offers little in the way of fresh or new ideas. It's just people running about and being murdered, yet again. INSEMINOID is by no means a particularly bad film, but it's just not particularly good either.

Britain has produced some great science fiction writers, such as the late Sir Arthur C Clarke, and an iconic science fiction television show, "Doctor Who". Sci-fi, however, has not been something that the British cinema has normally excelled in, although there have been occasional exceptions such as "Village of the Damned" and "Quest for Love". In the late seventies and early eighties, however, sci-fi was all the rage, following the success of "Star Wars", and even the British felt they had to get in on the act. Lack of finance meant that Britain was unable to produce its own big-budget space epics of the "Star Wars" type; that camp, self-mocking parody "Flash Gordon" was about the closest we got. "Inseminoid" is rather based upon another successful American science fiction film of the late seventies, "Alien".A group of interplanetary archaeologists (apparently in the far distant future there will be such an academic discipline) are carrying out a dig on an alien planet, otherwise known as Chislehurst (a dormitory town on the southern edge of London). One of the team, Sandy, is raped and impregnated by an alien creature. (Although the film is set many centuries in the future, all the characters have nice, user-friendly twentieth century English names like Mark, Gary, Sharon and Sandy). Pregnancy seems to change Sandy's character for the worse, because she goes on a homicidal rampage, slaughtering her colleagues one by one in order to feed on their blood. Although Sandy is outnumbered by about ten to one, and although the others have weapons which she lacks, they are unable to combine effectively to overcome her, merely offering themselves up like lambs to the slaughter.In the course of the film we make some interesting discoveries about the planet and its inhabitants, namely:- • Alien males have transparent plastic penises.• The main symptom of pregnancy among alien females is not morning sickness but murderous bloodlust. This possibly explains why their species is on the verge of extinction.• Contrary to what biologists might think, it is quite possible for humanoid life to evolve on a barren planet with temperatures of ninety degrees below zero.• There may be intelligent life in outer space but there is precious little in the British film industry.The film was made on a very low budget, as will be evident from the sets, costumes and props. The only thing director Norman Warren can do to make the exterior scenes look a bit less like Chislehurst is to shoot them through a red filter, although that makes it look as though the characters are moving at the bottom of an ocean of strawberry jam.Low budgets are not necessarily an impossible obstacle in the science-fiction field; the makers of British television series such as "Doctor Who" and "Blake's Seven", and even American ones such as "Star Trek", did not have at their disposal the huge amounts of cash George Lucas spent on "Star Wars". They could, however, sometimes call upon intelligent scripts and decent acting, which is not the case with "Inseminoid". The cast, at least on the female side, includes some relatively well-known names such as Judy Geeson, Stephanie Beacham and Victoria Tennant, none of whom look as though they know what they are doing in a film like this.At its best, science fiction can ask some pertinent questions about how science and technology might possibly develop in the future, and also about the philosophical, ethical and social implications of those developments. At its worst, it is "Plan 9 from Outer Space". On a scale of Ed Wood to Asimov, "Inseminoid" comes very close to the bottom end; it is only the third film I have ever given the minimum mark. The science fiction setting is really no more than an excuse for some video-nasty type gore and mayhem. 1/10.

This movie is without a doubt the most awfully bad movie i have ever seen! I mean, is this really a movie? the only thing scary about this movie is the acting,direction,effects and most certainly script. The screenwriter literally seems not to give a flying sh#¤"! even troll 2 is a better movie than this, and i didn't know any movie could possibly be worse than troll 2. if you get past the annoying intro and the watch another ten minutes... don't worry, it doesn't get any better. it gets far far worse! when i purchased this movie, the tag-line on the cover is as follows "in alien it was war, in inseminoid nothing is that easy"! damn right. give me a man eating beast any time of the day. it's better to be ripped to pieces than bored to death. i am proud of enduring the entire movie. after this inhumane suffering i am prepared for anything! this movie doesn't deserve to exist other than a torture devise!