I saw this recently at Shockerfest and I was very impressed. Railsback was as usual weird and creepy but intense and believeable.
Sets and costumes were great. I believe the screenplay won a major award at a festival in Spain recently.
Definitely worth seeing. This will bring back memories of all those Saturday matinees with enough reall scare for any sci-fi fan.
Yeah it just so happens that you remember that it won a "major" award at a festival in Spain but you don't remember which one.
Liar! Go $%#$%#$ yourself!
seriously, I'm sick and tired of people who worked on the movie coming in here and making fake reviews for crap-fest movies.
shareYou are really rude and need a good thrashing.
It was the award for best screenwriting.
I thought it was quite good as well. Some of the acting was a bit spotty, and the special effects ranged from good (the monsters) to crappy (the blowtorches, why couldn't they have just used real ones?). I can forgive most of that stuff due to a low budget.
"No man is just a number"
Above poster was involved in the movie.
Go to the website and watch the trailer. You will see the sub TV Movie sets and realize how bad it is. It also shows ALL of the gore from the movie in the trailer.
This is a direct Aliens ripoff that had no budget and they tried to make the movie feel serious with no intentional humor.
Save your money and re-watch Alien/Aliens or anyother WELL MADE movie. This is not so bad that it is good. It is so bad that it is horrible.
Master_X_3_1_1, stop purposefully humbling the movie to make yourself look like someone who didn't have anything to do with it! We KNOW you worked on this movie. Alright? Its that friggin obvious! You people weren't even the first who attempted that!!
Assuming you two (the OP being second) weren't involved, I guess it won't bother you that I downloaded a movie from a warez forum. And I also assume you won't be bothered when I say that I wasted those 700 megabytes of bandwidth with it, since it was such a disappointment. Oh, and that people who WERE involved were total morons who are hoping that somehow, if the stars are right, will be able to use that set as a springboard to get into a bit more serious production.
Thats a little mean Devastation... Geez :) I'de more agree with dean2900's comments :-)) Keep trying guys... maybe next time don't go with a movie that REQUIRES *beep* loads of budget to look good. Look at Reservoir Dogs as one shining example.
shareYes you're right, I'm the director, and it just pains me so much to see people badmouthing my creation that I need to anonimously write a single favourable revirew for my movies...
But seriously if you were so disapointed with it, I have to ask what you were honestly expecting from this? I'm going out on a limb and guessing that site you mentioned was CG (where I got it as well, and it seems like the posts in this forum exploded since it was posted there). Given the place you got it, the fact that the trailer and many screenshots are right there, and the relatively low IMDB rating what were your expectations?
"No man is just a number"
Some originality might have been nuce. Next time, it might be an idea to hire a writer who didn't happen to watch Alien, Aliens or 'Flight of the living dead' the night before the brainstorming session.
I mean come on.
*Minor spoilers ahead*
Establishing shot is a star field
Film title appears letter by letter to ominous music
crew on it's way home when they receive a distress call
Crew dispute contract when it comes to distress call, but they answer it anyway
One of crew turns out to be android
Said android looks suspiciously like Bishop, blue jumpsuit included.
Scene with crawling for a few hundred meters down a narrow passage.
Film resolves with heroine setting the ship to self destruct, blows an enemy out an airlock and escapes in an escape pod.
Paying homage is one thing, but that was just over the top plagiarism.
Yeah, honestly this movie's POSTER looked like it had more work put into it than the entire movie.
Guy 1: Oh My God, I found a penny!
Guy 2: You B@stard!
That major award must have been the leg lamp from a Christmas Story. Railsback is done! Done! Who else that you'd heard of was in this flick?
Railsback should call Tobe Hooper, another has been, and make "Lifeforce 2 - The Runs". It would describe this movie as well....soupy crap.
Well, if he is the director then he wrote it too.
The only good thing, while I starting hitting the fast forward after about 30 minutes in, was that crazy psycho chick.
I would have gone space zombie on her and torn that *beep* up.
Oh wait, she was.
I rather enjoyed this movie, I enjoyed Brad Sykes Camp Blood movies too so knew what I was heading into with this, although I always kep my expectations low when watching a low grade horror. Seems a lot of people expect a movie to be something it isn't, when they watch and it fails to meet their standards they p!ss and moan about it.
How someone said this was an Aliens rip off is beyond me, just because it was in space. I guess Star Trek is an Aliens rip off then due to it's space setting.
I only axed ya for a smoke - Jack Frost
I liked it too. And im offended the way certain idiots and their over the top "opinions" try to push the whole site to vote along with them or the naysayers have to be movie staff..right? Wrong!
This is no ripoff. The only similarity I see to aliens is they are in space like the above mentioned poster stated. The color of the uniforms? Something or someone looks vaguely like a character from Aliens? Very, very Weak analogy and your reaching. Im so sick of people calling every new movie a ripoff. One has to understand that every type of movie has been done already in the last 80 years of movie productions so moments of familiarity are going to reflect in alot of movie productions. Get over it..or shut up and make a totally original movie. A totally original movie pops up very rarely and your definitely NOT going to find it in the Horror section in a low budget production
Another point to mention(due to the fact that a few biased users from a warez site, mobbed up and destroyed the fairness of the rating system by belittling people into not voicing their opinions:
This movie appears to even have won a couple awards I applaud them for it. Its not the best production, but also far from the worst. I think they did a decent job with the $$ they had which obviously isnt much.
Please, make your vote, say your peice and move along. Dont wait to bash people because they dont share your opinion of something. Noone really cares what you think or what I think, but they deserve truth in ratings and this whole page is a sham.
If your a real horror-sci fi genre you will enjoy this so ignore the ratings. If your a hollywood buff and dont like micro budget horror/sci Fi films then make your commment and move on, dont bash people because they dont share your opinion,or your just another f$%$ing fascist!
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I'm not really sure if this is a sarcastic post, whether you're a plant, or you're a parent of the filmmaker, because this movie was just plain bad. I'm a fan of the sci-fi and horror genres, but this movie takes the cake out of both. If it was meant as a comedy, I think it might leave you in stitches - the kind after slashing your wrists because you've watched a stinking pile of horse excrement. I'm not one to bash a movie usually, but hey, there's always an exception. Apparently there's always time to apply makeup in space and the captain wears a uniform reminiscent of a college jacket. How was there no nudity in this film? I'm not saying a bared tit, a good movie makes, but it was obvious that the director went out of his way to hire eyecandy, only to disappoint by not exposing it. Talk about dangling a marsbar from a string, just out of reach of an Ethiopian child. Railsback was what you expected in this movie - a b-rated lance henrikson. From his outfit to his vent crawling scene, it was sickeningly plagiaristic. Oh, and apparently those people who give major awards away can turn a blind eye to the ominous ending of a coffin flying towards earth but will somehow avoid being burned up in the atmosphere. In space nothing stays dead forever, but the audience of this movie would after hanging themselves.
Come on in, and try not to ruin everything by being you.
There are movies that are so bad they're good; this isn't one of them.
If you don't mind watching an Aliens copy with actors who can't act and characters that can't think things through : this is your movie.
Throw in zombies where there used to be aliens and you know what to expect.
If you know this and still want to give it a try, go for it. I enjoyed this movie ,but I can understand those who didn't.
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