NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

Glucedee It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

Kodie Bird True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

Scotty Burke It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

etusciuk I will start this review by saying I love low-budget movies. As a kid I was bombarded by them on Saturday-afternoon TV, plus my father was always showing me these strange ones from the 70's and 80's that were made in Canada, Italy, countries like that. I have been around those types of movies even since the age of 3, 23 years ago. Roger Corman is obviously one of the first names you think of when you think low-budget films. I am a fan of him myself. To get to the review this is one of the films I have heard about and read about in countless magazines, movie trailers, review sites, etc., but never seen until just recently. Warning! This review will probably have spoilers!This film starts off looking like a low-budget Star Trek-type space opera, about 10-12 minutes in it becomes more of an Alien clone, ending up with an ending that is like a psychological mind-bender. To put the plot-line in as basic a way as possible without telling too much, pretty much a ship-crew goes on a mission examining another ship that was lost on a planet and find out something is way wrong with the situation.The acting for the most part was okay. They weren't really great, but it was not exactly dull or mediocre. Granted most of the actors probably didn't do too much before this so I could forgive it for that reason, although Robert Englund does a good job.The soundtrack for me wasn't necessarily great. It was one of the soundtracks that fit the circumstances, how it was a lot of weird sounds and synth chords, so it works as a film-being-a-horror-type standpoint, but I didn't enjoy it as a way of being something that I would listen to on it's own for enjoyment. So the soundtrack is good, but not that type of good. It was composed by Barry Schrader.The effects in this movie is fantastic. From the weird looking computer animations on the ships computers systems, to the stomach-twisting, and surprisingly graphic blood and guts effects. This film was definitely made before CGI, so they had to come up with creative ways to make the effects, and they are great. Nowadays they spend thousands of dollars making these effects on computers that for the most part end up looking like crap, and here they are in this film using techniques that are very cheap to make, some of the effects and stuff probably not taking more than 30-40 dollars to make and these look way better than most of these computer-generated effects you see today. The effects in this film do not disappoint. The only effect I didn't really care for was the weird red glow around the mystical beings head, but that was about it.This film was surprisingly graphic, violent,and psychologically and philosophically deep for not only a Roger Corman film, but for low-budget 80's films in general. Also the cinematography and camera work for the most part was pretty good. Set designs as well. The alien planet was very creepy in appearance and you did get a real sense of dread looking at it. This film genuinely gives you goose bumps, sometimes before anything even happens. This film does give you some real shocks. James Cameron was also one of the production designers for this film, and some of the effects and landscapes does make you think of his work in Aliens. If you are a fan of science fiction-based horror films or low-budget films, check this out. It is a recommended watch. I give this film a 7.5 out of 10.

Michael A. Martinez It's difficult for me to recommend this film to anyone as GALAXY OF TERROR is certainly not a "good" movie. However, among the other ALIEN clones I would say it fares the best in really recreating the "feeling" of the original. So much so, in fact, that I think it certainly helped the case for 2nd unit director James Cameron to find work directing the official sequel ALIENS.Actually, the concept for this feel feels much more in line with, say, SPHERE or EVENT HORIZON with an ensemble cast on some dark mission in the dark corners of space battling their worst nightmares on a harsh and unforgiving environment.As far as environment goes, this film captures it in spades. Considering it's a Roger Corman production with an even smaller budget than its predecessor (the previous year's BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS), GOT boasts surprisingly credible production design and special effects. The costume design reminds one of BATTLESTAR GALACTICA and the sound reminiscent of "Star Trek" (complete with the same photon torpedo effects), though all given a unique gloomy atmosphere of dread thanks to its special effects department and much of Barry Shrader's resourceful, low-tech, but effective score. Jacques Haitkin's nightmarish cinematography helps a lot too, often going monochromatic blue and red further heightening the shocks.Structured like a horror movie at a slim, fast-paced 81 minutes, the film puts a lot more creative energy into staging some quality kills than setting up its characters. In fact, the gritty tone is nearly destroyed early on with some comparatively bright and cheery scenes of the human home-world (not Earth?) and its pathetic attempt to set up the universe and characters. We only get via a brief voice-over that the home planet "Xerxes" is run by some kind of omnipotent "Master" who exercises unquestioned control over space missions but we never see him do anything powerful. As one-dimensional as he is, none of the other characters come off as even slightly more interesting than The Master and we never really get to know or care about any of them, other than that they're played by an assortment of colorful recognizable B- movie and TV stars.A better script would have propelled this into the major leagues, but as it stands, GALAXY OF TERROR remains an effective cult classic with enough gore, shocks, scares, and atmosphere to provide enjoyment for less-discriminating B-movie fans.

speakers I love watching bad 80s science-fiction and this fits the bill. The special effects are shoddy, even for the time; the actors all take turns at chewing the scenery, apart from Robert Englund who has a natural charm throughout the film.The story is that a ship with a crew entirely chosen by the Master (whose head glows bright red for no accountable reason), have been sent to rescue the crew from another ship that has crashed on a remote planet. Each one is introduced with a sketchy characterisation which is pretty much all the background you get; there's the weirdly manic, driven captain (with terrible ageing make-up), the commander who is obviously "too old for this s**t", the sullen leader who hates the jovial moustache man, the pretty psychic the moustache loves, the buxom blonde, the cook with secrets, the semi-mute who carries some plastic throwing stars, the coward, the cheery tech guy.The moment they land and investigate the crashed ship, things start to go wrong. They also do odd things, like incinerating the bodies in the crashed ship or splitting up for no good reason which leads to the death of the coward. The ones left behind in the ship fare no better; the Captain begins to hallucinate she is facing an old enemy from a previous disaster where she was the only survivor. After firing the ships weaponry, she picks up an enormous gun and dies in a completely unexplained way.At this point, the plot and the character motivations go out of the window and everybody turns their acting up to 11; the mute is killed by his own plastic stars and the poor blonde is raped to death by a giant slimy maggot, in a scene that is as uncomfortable to watch as it must have been to act.After killing almost everyone else, the plot then takes a metaphysical left turn which would have been a masterstroke had it not been setup so badly at the beginning and rushed at the end.Try this film as a basis for a drinking game (a shot every time someone does something really stupid or a character dies or the dialogue makes you cringe) and you'll have a great, if rather drunk, time.

amesmonde On a desolate, storm-lashed planet called Morganthus, survivors of a crashed spaceship are attacked by their fears.Director Bruce D. Clark offers a choppy edited and scripted affair. Nevertheless, there are some interesting kill scenes including a man fighting his doppelgänger, a woman being consumed by a giant maggot (Taaffe O'Connell's notorious death scene), another man being killed by a throwing star by his own severed arm. As with most Roger Corman productions there's plenty of imagination but low budget production values. The cast are an assortment of familiar TV and film actors from Happy Days to V and a Nightmare on Elm St. who do their best with the script and ill-fitting costumes. There's Sid Haig, Robert Englund to name a few. There's some nice effects on display, along with mat paintings and sound effects. Interestingly as a precursor to bigger things, James Cameron serves as production designer and second unit director, there are reminiscent smidgens of The Terminator and Aliens visuals on display, even though not as we lit or executed.Galaxy of Terror is unashamedly a series of kills strung together with gore moments and effects. But so were the majority of films of its genre at time. Worth viewing if only out of interest for the practical effects work.