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Cult classic best known for its gross-out scene


Back in the day this movie was actually quite well-known. Inseminoid (Horror Planet) came out at a time when science fiction horror was popular. I viewed this movie at a theater, which tells you that it wasn't a cheapie indie movie meant for direct to vhs/dvd like today.

I'll tell you why so many people remembered INSEMINOID. It was for its gross-out, stomach-churning extraterrestrial rape scene of British actress Judy Gleeson. In a nightmarish, something of a flashback scene, captured science officer astronaut Gleeson finds herself completely naked and lying on some smooth white table surface. Although she is not visibly restrained, she is unable to rise or escape the table. Terrified and looking as if she is in some bad LSD-induced trip, her raised knees are spread far apart as if by invisible hands. Then comes the appalling scenario. What appears to be a long glass tube goes between her legs. You see this from the side. Flowing down the glass tube is some kind of green fluid with ping pong balls in it. It's a very wide glass tube too, I guess to be almost two inches in diameter. Ouch! It was a queasy, stomach-turner to watch the scene. From there on everything goes from bad to worse to hell in a hand basket for everyone else on board the spaceship. Despite being widely outnumbered, Gleeson goes beserk and singly kills off her colleagues one-by-one.

It's these particular gross-out scenes that helped make several sci-fi horror movies cult classics, like these below:

1) Galaxy of Terror: Team member astronaut fighter Dameia (Taaffe O'Connell) is ambushed by a weird, gigantic caterpillar that rips off her uniform, slimes her naked body, induces a screaming groaning orgasm in the woman, before inexplicably causing fatal cardio respiratory failure.

2) XTRO: Another weird one. A hapless, attractive woman, unknowingly inseminated through her mouth, gives birth to a full grown man! Of course this grotesque operation proves fatal to her.

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That scene and especially the childbirth segment should be required viewing at Lamaze classes.

That's an excellent perspective of the highlights (for lack of a better word) of these films. Although these are clearly "Alien" ripoffs, I find them impossible to ignore. Sure, their plots are limited, and they have the inevitable "money shot" of alien rape, childbirth, or both, but I think these films show much more imagination than your standard early '80s slasher. "inseminoid"/"Horror Planet" has a reasonably competent cast and art direction for a low-budget production.

You were lucky to have seen this in the theater. Somehow this one got past me in the early '80s. Was it titled "Inseminoid" when you saw it, and why and when did it become "Horror Planet"? I think "Inseminoid" is an excellent title that captures the sleaze factor; "Horror Planet" sounds like something from the '50s.

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Movie poster was a bit gross as well!



Its that man again!!

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Indeed it was:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004BIZIYK/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_r d_p=486539851&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i =B004UX59EU&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=10C19KCB220YKA09144P

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You knew what you were getting into with cover art like that.

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Yeah, these scenes are what make the movies.

What do you think this is, a signature? It's a way of life!

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It really was the most memorable part of the movie.

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Cool.

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