Inseminoid
Inseminoid
| 23 January 1981 (USA)
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A crew of interplanetary archaeologists is threatened when an alien creature impregnates one of their members, causing her to turn homicidal and murder them one by one.

Reviews
Scanialara You won't be disappointed!
Matcollis This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.
LastingAware The greatest movie ever!
Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional
kaefab 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.
Leofwine_draca 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.
Paul Magne Haakonsen For a movie from 1981, then "Inseminoid" (aka "Horror Planet") was still entertaining to watch today. After having read reviews that claimed it to be a rip off of "Alien", then I was a bit reluctant to watch it. I will say, however, that while it shares some similarities with "Alien" then it wasn't a rip off.The story is about a group of interplanar archaeologists who stumble upon a cave-dwelling alien creature. The creature impregnates one of the crew members, and slowly she started to turn into a crazed killer while the alien offspring grows inside her.Now, the movie is driven by its story and acting talents, and barely relying on the special effects. This wasn't a special effects extravaganza, not by a long shot.As for the acting, then I will say that people were doing good jobs all round, which was crucial for the movie.You can't really have an alien creature movie without a proper alien being. The alien in "Inseminoid" actually looked rather interesting and was nicely made. It just wasn't shown as much throughout the entire movie as I would have liked.All in all, "Inseminoid" is an enjoyable Sci-Fi horror movie. But given its age, it is not a movie that stands out as memorable in comparison to the Sci-Fi horror movies that come out nowadays.
Michael_Elliott Inseminoid (1981) ** (out of 4) Interesting if not completely successful British clone of ALIEN has a group of scientist on another planet studying the place when one of their parties is sexually attacked by an unknown creature. Shortly afterwards the woman turns into a raving maniac trying to kill off the crew so that she can give birth to what's growing inside of her. According to legend, director Norman J. Warren had a screenplay pumped out in four days and the entire film was shot in four weeks. With that in mind I give the film credit for looking as good as it does but there's still no question that there are some flaws here. The biggest flaw is also a spot where I'd actually tip my hat to the filmmakers. You'd think with an ALIEN clone we'd just have a monster running around killing the crew the entire running time but this actually isn't the case. Instead of that the filmmakers tried to mix things up by having the female herself doing the killing and I thought it was an interesting attempt at doing something different than your monster-on-the-loose thing. Sadly, the little experiment didn't work because it's the female killer that really drags the film down. Earlier in the picture we get a glimpse of one of the aliens and it has a pretty good look to it and it almost seems like it influenced the end look of the monster in THE FLY remake. There's also a sequence with the alien babies, which look extremely good and once again more time with these fellas would have been nice. The film also suffers from some pretty weak performances at time and the music score itself is pretty weak. With that said, there's still quite a bit to enjoy here including the direction by Warren. I thought he actually did a nice job considering what he had to work with and this is especially true during the first half of the movie. Another major plus were the special effects, which at times were quite gory for a British film from this period. Still the film never fully reaches the level I'm sure it wanted to. Many consider this one of the worst sci-fi pictures of the era but I wouldn't go that far.