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One of my favorite bad movies


It is definitely a terrible rip-off of Alien, but it is also tremendous creepy fun (with some great scenes). Klaus Kinski is the delicious layer of icing on top of this cupcake.

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I agree that this movie is very fun and does a great job at creating atmosphere and doing a lot with a little, but I disagree in saying this is a bad film, just low budget.

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With only a four million dollar budget to work with, I thought the crew did a resemble job with the casting; which included Klaus Kinski, the set designs, the lighting and of course; the creature's special effects, which I thought were done extremely well, seeing as the creature himself is quite obviously a blatant Alien rip off from head to toe. The plot, while basically ripping off the concept of the original Alien, had potential to work, through with a relatively slow vibe to it all, as well as the addition of what was in my opinion a unnecessary love triangle relationship, which was performed so poorly that the audience don't fell anything at all for it, the story just seems to bog down, and dragged on during stages, which leaves me with the feeling that it was all just time filtering. While the creature itself looked great, I thought that some of the full-frame shots of the him looked absolutely ridiculous. I mean, Ridley Scott hesitated at showing the "Alien" in all its glory because he didn't want it to look like a guy in a suit, which it was in real life, so by watching the creature stand on two legs and fighting toe-to-toe with a human, was what reminded me that I was watching a B-Movie.

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