Brandon's Cult Movie Reviews: GALAXY OF TERROR
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
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Alien knock-off month begins with "Galaxy of Terror" (1981), produced by Roger Corman!
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The "most replayed" portion of this video is... exactly what you'd expect.
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@@jvckmvson6232 If you mouseover the video's progress bar, there will be a "Most replayed" tag appearing over the moment of the video that people most often skipped to or "rewinded" to. In this case, the "Most replayed" point is, obviously, the amorous maggot scene.
@@BigSlimyBlob yeah it’s not telling me the most replayed…what’s the time stamp?
@@jvckmvson6232 9:51
Presumably it could change, but it was there over a year ago when I first posted, and it's still there now.
Gross, who WANTS to see THAT?! I mean yeah, Taaffe O’Connell is gorgeous, but the maggot violation ruins it.
Fun fact: The actor playing the commander who looks like Emperor Palpatine actually played Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars Radio Dramas for NPR.
Wow really!?!?
Fun fact: at 10:46 they cut the scene where the actor who plays Freddy Kreuger puts a fedora hat on the burnt alive Captain Trantor and says: _"That's a good look!"_
Fun fact you’re a big ol nerd
Fun fact: fun facts are not that fun.
@@CowboyRobot2000 Fun Fact My Facts are boring
Sid Haig agreed to be in the film, but only if his character not utter a single word. Corman absolutely insisted he say that one line in the film, to give his character's death more weight. Eventually, Haig agreed to say the line.
It says something when Sid Haig thinks a movie is too terrible for him
Don't we make ya laugh? Aren't we fucking funny?!
We owe Roger Corman a lot of thanks for helping James Cameron get his career in film making started.
Cameron also was a student of Scott too.
Роджер Корман так же помог начать карьеру Копполе.
As I recall Cameron said he met Bill Paxton while working on this, Paxton has a credit as Set Decorator on this on the imdb
MIchael St. John didn’t Paxton play Hudson in aliens as well
@@Vmidnight1917 He was Hudson in Aliens, he was the spiky haired punk at the beginning of The Terminator, he was the sleazy car salesman in True Lies...all James Cameron movies. :-) If I remember correctly, he was also the director of the old video "Fish Heads". (Fish heads, fish heads, roly poly fish heads. Fish heads, fish heads, eat them up...yum!) :-)
yep i read that too. I actually saw this in theater as a kid and really liked it. Nobody else ever seems to know of it though.
lizzy rosario starcrash was better 😌
i was looking on imdb about this movie, Don Keith Opper and Rupert Harvey worked on this movie as production coordinator and accountant, these two would go on to work on 1985's Android with Harvey producing and Don starring as the character Max 404, and the two would go on to work on the Critters film series for New Line Cinema with Harvey producing and Don playing Charlie Mcfadden
"What if Event Horizon met Forbidden PLanet, but dumber and sleazier?"
This always reminded me more of Sphere than Event Horizon.
Glad I’m not the only one who saw the parallels with Event Horizon
What happened to Robert Englund's character? Well, the mysternous pyramir manifests the fears of those who enter and his character feared himself creating a loop in the manifestations which traps him in the realm of dreams. The pyramid created Freddy Krueger!
Dun-Dun-DUNNNN!!! Who knew this schlocky B-Movie was secretly a prequel to the greatest horror movie franchise of all time?! XD
that actually would be an awesome retcon, not those flying fish thingys in freddys dead
In the original script of Alien the eggs (spores) were in a pyramid that the crew rappelled down.
By the way, the original script of Alien is really bad. Almost unreadable.
So,there's weird alien worms. There's a pyramid/ancient aliens vibe, thing going on. Zombie crew members. Plus, an ending that makes your wonder why you watched it in the first place. Looks like the cash-in had a serious influence on Prometheus!
May have influenced 'Event Horizon' too.
But all those ideas were taken from the original script from Alien "Star Beast". It's clear Corman used the original script for Alien as influence big time.
www.dailyscript.com/scripts/alien_early.html
Yeah, that movie sucked too
The poem the guy quotes? The awesome Black Sabbath lyric? Taken from “Prometheus” by John Boyle O’Reilly.
Knowledge Drop 3: Taafe O'Connell (Dameia), consulted a priest before doing the maggot scene. She said the floor was very cold during the shoot and worried the maggot would fall on her. The men operating the maggot drew straws to see who would be, ahem, closest to her.
Do you know what she asked the priest - I’ll assume he was Catholic unless you say otherwise - or what he told her?
Knowledge Drop: Sid Haig thought the script was so bad he insisted on saying only one line.
Decided to watch this again after hearing about Sid Haig's passing. RIP Captain Spaulding.
Thats what brought me here today .... May he rest in peace, at least he can Pal around with Angus Scrimm, see if The Tall Man digs some fried chicken
I remember him as the villain in a kid's show Called "Jason of Star Command " in the Seventies, Aly.
@@tureytayno3154 holy sh%t... Thanks lol you just blew my mind twice at once here haha.
Fun fact, this film originally had an X-rating, but underwent edits and cuts to give it an R-rating. The X-rated version however is confirmed to be lost and destroyed.
georgeowain Yikes...
That's fucked up
Hell wanna watch it. . . We all know cormans mind is considerably more depraved that what we get to see on screen
What the hell could’ve been in that?
If i remember correctly the actual actress wouldnt get full nude for the scene, so he filmed a sluttier stunt double and got. . . I wanna say weirder, but. . . It got REALLY intense. . .
Coming soon,
*Alien: The Sequel that's a prequel of a sequel but it actually a prequel-sequel of a sequel's prequel*
Alien the Pre Sequel
Alien mighit be one of the few film series I've seen where you need a fucking crash course and a few hours on wikipedia just to figure out the fucking timeline
@Factual Opinion Part 33+1/3 The origin of the beginning of the genesis at the start of a new saga episode 4
@@wednesdaygeckok.7899 No, that's Borderlands.
Timeline
Prometheus(2089-2093)
Alien Covenant (2104)
Original Alien movie (2122)
Alien 2(2179)
Alien 3(2179, after Alien 2)
Alien Resurrection(2379)
R.I.P Sid Haig! He lives and dies by the crystals!
I read an article that stated that Sid Haig didn't like his lines in the movie so he decided to just be quiet throughout the film except for one line to keep SAG credit.
He said as much on the blu ray interview.
ahhh 2017. When there was still hope, that Alient Covenant wouldnt *suck ass*
Type "Alien Covenant Benny Hill theme" into the UA-cam search bar. Thank me later.
The thing the guy in the intro is killed by is only barely visible in some reflections during the scene. Also Sid only has one line because he refused to say all of the other lines he had since they thought they were stupid and got to play the character mute but still had to say one line.
Don't ask me why but I always liked this movie, possibly my favorite sci-fi B flick. The similarities with Alien are really trivial, and overall it manages to be its own movie, plus, you have to admire the twisted imagination that gave birth to the "sex offending" worm, I mean, if that isn't taking the face fucker, oh sorry, the face hugger to the next level, then i reallydon't know what is.
Yeah ratings aside... the scene actually made sense. The pyramid of death is manifesting your fears. We don't know why she's scared of being raped by maggots... but.... it's her greatest fear.
Also, the ending where all the dead cast members come back and bug Cabren was the funniest part, when they're doing the "Am I bugging you? I'm not touching you!" bit.
I remember seeing this movie on HBO when I was a little kid.Joannie from happy days is in this movie!So is freddy kruger and nurse ratchet!And also watching Humanoids from the deep.
Anyone else remember those "Star Wars: Galaxy of Terror" paperbacks?
I think you mean Galaxy of Fear. And yes, I remember those vividly, especially "The Brain Spiders".
Yes! Remember that planet that ate people?
Yeah, the zombies
Yep. Great series.
I never cared much for the early booke but some of the modern ones fucking rock
Roger Corman. Sure he makes cheap B-movie knock-offs, but he CARES about making cheap B-movie knock-offs.
take notes Bay, talentless hack
@lizzy rosario You say "no" and then proceed to "debunk" the thesis that Corman was a good producer who cared about his production regardless of them making not much sense and being knock-offs by... saying that movie makes no sense, which is not even on Corman: blame Marc Siegler and B.D. Clark who wrote it. I can't wrap my head around your argumentation and yes, many Corman productions suck, there's no doubt in that. I still have more respect for them and the man himself as a director and producer then a lot of mainstream mediocrity: he tried every single time and when he succeed he made quite a few cult classics in the process and jumpstarted careers of some of the greatest filmmakers ever.
@Bobo Boy to be fair back then film was actually really expensive as was the time it took to re do the scenes. Also unlike today where you can actually do half decent film editing with a cheap computer and some even cheaper editing software, it was actually really expensive to do more than the most basic chopping and stitching, so B movies often had to get it right in just a couple takes where bigger budget films could afford to keep doing a scene over and over all day (Stanley Kubrick supposedly did some scenes 100 times for example).
@@arthas640 Yeah, for instance having old man Crothers get beat in the chest by a prop ax over 60 times.
@@camerondodge2070 I've heard stories of doing scenes like that. I was watching something similar to this channel where they talked about old movies and they talked about a scene where rather than doing multiple takes of the same scene from start to finish where someone got smacked, they just filmed a bunch fo quick takes of the guy getting hit one after another (so like a coupon continously minutes of someone being punch) so that way they could pick the best one and splice it in to the rest of the scene. The actor or stunt man kind of hated it since he essentially got punch over and over without a break.
y'know it's amazing how this movie has a cast of such unique characters with developed personalities and backstories... and yet still somehow failed to make me give a shit about any of them
Interesting - before you even mentioned James Cameron, I was looking at that pyramid thing and thinking... that's like the terraforming station from Aliens. I guess this was Cameron's practice run.
I was one of the unpaid crew members at New World (under Bill Paxton who was under James Cameron after working on "Battle Beyond the Stars") who climbed into McDonald's dumpsters for the styrofoam food containers glued to the set walls. For years we had a motto, "Don't reveal the secret of the sets." Until one of us blew it for an interview in Fangoria years later.
what year did you all film this??
You know that funny? In earlier version of Aline script Nostromo crew supposed to find PYRAMID (not ship) on LV-426 with alien structures inside and eggs. So, to some point you may thing this is how it may look if they go with this idea.
My favorite story from this is in the special features where Robert Englund met a famous critic or something like that who recognized him. Robert was super flattered that the man knew his work. The man then said, "You were great in that movie where that maggot fucked that girl!"
Roflmao!
Disgusting.
Somebody recently said exactly the same thing to Boris Johnson'
@@nobbynoris i thought he was the mag- oh I see what you did there
A giant maggot rape scene:
To most people: What?! Why would that be in here?!
To Japanese Manga writer: Quick, someone get me a pencil! I have an idea!
Still doesn’t explain why Japanese have that weird fetish
Junji Ito be like:
Go Nagai: Kid stuff!
RIP Sid, you will be remembered
And Erin Moran
And Zalman King
I first saw this on HBO a hundred years ago. Even as an 11 year old kid, I could tell this movie was cheesy as fuck.
But, it had a couple of things going for it...
1. It had Erin Moran. Even as a kid, I was in love with Joanie....although in this movie she doth look a bit rough around the edges. Still loved her though. RIP Erin Moran.
2. It had one of my favorite bad guys (when I was a kid) playing a good guy...albeit a stoic, taciturn good guy. Dragos, Lord of the Cosmos from Jason of Star Command...... Sid Haig! But why did Sid Haig have only one line in this movie? Because he told Roger Corman that the dialogue written for his character was stupid, except for the "I live and die by the crystals!" line...so that's what they went with.
Say what you want about Corman. Sometimes he makes some interesting mood pieces. I have a feeling if he wanted to make better movies he could have but didn't want to take the financial risks. This movie was really good for what it was
O.M.G! Each one of these that I watch Brandon's sense of humor just seems to get better and better.. the movies may be cheesy but Brandon's commentary is comedy gold...
I had a dream once - in it, I was the giant maggot.
Okay, I may have had it more than once.
You know, you can put yourself on the FBI watchlist, you don't have to make us do it.
Well... thing that make you go "That boy ain't right"
There's such a thing as "too much information," this (gestures to this comment), falls into that category.
I guess some people don't know what a joke is.
0:00-0:40 My mind has officially melted.
I remember watching this as a kid by accident LOL love the scene where Sid Haigs impaled arm throws his own ninja star at himself lol
That bit of Sid trying to grab the crystal and it jamming itself into his wrist gets me every time.
2:48 well what do ya know? A Dead Space movie is indeed a thing… apparently.
Cameron and the Skotak brothers worked on this and Aliens. One of my favs as an 8 year old when I saw it in the theater.
Knowledge Drop 2: Bill Paxton suggested running a live wire through Haig's (Quohod's) severed arm to make the maggots move. That suggestion led to several films with Cameron, including Aliens and Titanic, and several other character roles. RIP.
This movie has a great look to it. It's actually pretty amazing. The creatures are a little cheesy but decent for the time
I remember the TV ads for this. They made it look fantastic and to be honest, I've always liked this movie. The final reveal was spoiled for me though, since I recognized Ray Walston's voice coming from the Master at the start of the film, so I knew he was more than just the cook.
Actually, one of the most disturbing things in this film is the fact that when they discover the blonde's nude body, Baylon just incinerates it without even checking to see if she's still alive. I mean she's lying there nude, covered in slime, but she doesn't have any obvious injuries. How did he know that she wasn't just unconscious?
That maggot scene reminded me of wicked city SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much
Which one? The anime or the weird-ass live-action version?
Cartoon Critique I’d say a bit of both; the maggot scene is both screwed up and really peculiar to me at the same time.
RIP Erin Moran
KittenRaptor and piss on Scott baio.
@Barack...Why?
jrny20 Scott baio is a trumpbutt who also made some disparaging remarks about Erin Moran's death. in typical trumpbutt fashion he just could not pass up a chance to be an asshole. so piss on him.
@Barack...I've read what he said, and yeah; he could've said it better so he wouldn't come off as a jack ass. But I understood why. He has worked with her in the past, so he would have at least some idea of what she was going through. And, so who cares if he supported Trump. I hate Trump as much as the next person, but I'm not going to bash his supporters because of him. I've realized not all Trump supporters are what you've described.
jrny20 I have yet to meet a trump supporter that the would would not be a better placed without.
The best part is when Erin Moran goes BUG-EYED. Just stirs something primal deep within me. ;) Actually, the trailer for Galaxy of Terror captures the best elements, and packs a good punch.
10:20 - "Fetish for this kind of thing..."
Well, it's called "Tentacle Hentai" and Japan dominates it right back to some classic woodcut of an Octopus going down on a fisherman's wife. However, before any of that stuff was released in the states...America First!!!
I've looked into this. It's weird since well the lady in question refused to do it. Imagine "The H-LL I WILL!!!!!" so loud you could hear if from outside the $100Million giant alien pyramid model - woops before Avatar days - as if that very good matt painting was a real model... Proll'y shattered the coffee pot in the break room... So they did use a body double. But she still had to be stripped by the worm and then lie there covered in slime for Freddy Kruger to toast her despite her being visibly breathing, etc.
My fav is that there is "Lost footage" of this film that got a lot more explicit. Lots more bump and grind from the worm and implied though not directly shown insertion - be it on the actress or her double... But that got lost... I imagine in the late 80s Taafe sneaking in and BURNING the full reels after too many scifi fans hassled her at convention wearing giant worm outfits. "Damiaaaaa... We have come for youuuuu...."
I think someone should "re-create" that lost footage. That would be cool.
@@johnw8578 Well ... could be done with 3d tech actually - but a lot of work to something tied to existing properties Hollow-Wood is still feeding off quite well with Cameron no longer alive to go "Hey, it's the sincerest form of flattery! It's an ad for my work!" so it'd be lawyers. And an older O'Connell likely hitting that "Report" button like mad.
Now there ARE "Live action tentacle Hentai" movies - made in Japan. Just the USA had 'em FIRST! (though Japan had weird 2D tentacle stuff back to 18th century...)
Though it'd be awesome sauce to find said footage - I'd like more to see a modern "B" movie make such a movie and cross the line into XXX stuff but keep the plot - and have live action stuff.
I watched this high and it was glorious.
10:15 Fun fact: for years in the '90s and early 2000s there was a site called GOT Fan Art where people posted their original worm/slug/tentacle sex drawings, stories and photoshop work. It's a more common kink than you think.
This movie is interesting because Cameron did so much work and called so many shots...it was like the midway step to him being a director of his own. He ran and handled so many aspects of the production.
you should review "Evil Toons" or "Hell Comes to Frogtown" sometime
ΝΙΚΟΣ ΝΙΚΟΣ evil toons was trash but frogtown is a b movie masterpiece.
I remember watching this, half dozing on my sofa around 1982 or '83. I don't think I ever knew the name of it. Started looking for it about a year ago and it shows up here! Thanks :)
00:00 - 00:41 Thank you for pointing out the lunacy of it, also it's not alien anymore it's "genetically engineered bio weapon of aliens selectively bred by crazy android".
It's also terrible.
If the rest of this month is even half as good as this I'm looking forward to it.
I think that was your finest review bro. Funny and very witty.
Great commentary on this true B-Movie classic.
My parents took me to this in the theater. Strangely, I didn't remember the rapist maggot scene, but Joanie Cunnigham getting burst by tentacles on the slip-and-slide stayed with me for the next 30-some years.
We’re you in your teens at the time? If not, were were your parents thinking? I can only assume, if you were under 13, that your child self repressed the memories of the maggot scene so you didn’t have to spend the next 30 years in therapy.
@@fromthecheapseats7126 I am laughing. What were they thinking? I have no idea. No repressed memories: holely memories. It wasn't uncommon for parents to take kids to R rated movies back then, and there were no trailers or previews to readily check, so they had no idea what we were getting into. Wasn't a problem for me.
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"Other than Zelda the Nintendo switch doesn't have much to offer."
*This argument became invalid the second you thought of it.*
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" It , the terror from beyond space"
1950's "Alien".
He might mean at launch, but honestly a big first party at launch is better than none... PS5 and Xbox Series X launch for example, hell, even 6 months later and there is still better to just buy last gen consoles XD (the pro versions).
@@soragranda 4 year old video so yeah more than likely it was done around launch lol . I sure couldn't justify spending so much myself to maybe play 2-3 games. At least they have improved it with time though.
@@wugglesx It depends, I love SMTV and after seeing the trailer I was like (Ok, my investment then), I also always have bought Nintendo consoles so to me it was a gonna buy it anyway.
Having 1 big exclusive was great, couple of months later MK8D appeared and Mario Odyssey, with that the console justify it's money and then waiting for more titles and eventually get smtv (It took time), also was hoping for 13 Sentinels Aegis rim to appear on the switch so seems like I got luck this time.
Honestly buying a PS5 now that Sony is releasing their games on PC is like... Welp, I did better build a PC (since I also need something powerful), Xbox series x is also cool but currently there isn't much to play, a year and a half after their launch... Also, most of the games that I want will be on PC so justifying this next gen consoles feels difficult.
Maybe will buy the ps5 when the next VR headset appears, by that time hopefully the ps5 have its slim edition (don't like the current model design) and also get the base price instead of double (or triple) the price.
Sony presented micro led screens that are perfect for VR implementations though, micro-led is expensive as hell, even tiny eye size screens... So might wait for a black Friday release, I will also want to be able to play PS4 VR games on PS5 since the catalog will be tiny otherwise.
I know VR is far from being the ideal (even if the lens are great and the screens are the best, hardware wise, and controllers... Is still too soon for some tech) but that gimmicky is pretty much the only thing that would make me buy one of this new gens consoles, switch and PC are enough for my needs.
Yet, also... That chip shortage...
Can we talk about how they just incinerated the naked chick on the floor? Didn't even bother to check if she was alive. Best RESCUE team ever.
oh boy, did i see tentacles in the preview?
Every anime girls worst nightmare!
Man you ant kidding there man lol
2:49 DEAD SPACE MOVIE!!!!!
6:42 Wouldn't help in an Alien inspired movie. Yaphet Kotto survived longer than most in Alien.
I just checked Wikipedia to make sure I wrote his name right. And according to that he is still alive. I thought I heard news few years back telling he had passed away. IMDB also doesn't say anything. A pleasant surprise if I remembered wrong.
2:48
DEAD SPACE WAS A MOVIE???
Theres 2 anime movies i think, might be more. . . Awesomely graphic if i can remember
@@leviroch Yes. Both are on UA-cam. ;)
There were two. They were awesome! But I am here commenting on this, so you see my standard.
Brandon, your film reviews are the absolute BEST! The actress playing the captain in this film also appeared in "Officer and a Gentleman."
Wasn't she Laura Palmer's mom too?
I'm really stoked for Alien Month, and Galaxy of Terror was a great place to start. I'm looking forward to seeing the other three movies you've chosen.
Thank Netflix for having this in their cult movies selection
My family has always been into scifi and horror, so growing up I would often see these flicks and only have one clear scene in memory to look them up as an adult. You know how weird it was to ask around about that at the bootleg table at conventions? "No, it's like Freddy Kreuger and My Favorite Martian and Space Maggot... you gotta remember that damn weird scene." or "You know, the newswoman turns into a werewolf.." or "Dude totally gets lured out of a spacecraft by his dead girlfriend, after he watched her die, and gets out of his damn fool helmet..."
Newsperson turn into werewolf - you talking about The Howling (one of the those)?
Previously, on *Brandon's Cult Movie Reviews: Galaxy Of Terror* :
"WTF happened in this movie? What was the point/goal of the bad guy? Is the mustache guy getting the sun head a good thing? A bad thing? Explain movie! And what happened to Robert Englund?"
The entire point of the pyramid was a test by an ancient race of beings to help/force their young transitioning into adulthood to learn how to control their fears. The Master (played by Ray Walston) was essentially the leader of the main character's civilization, who guided it with his Obi-Wanish wisdom, along with a human companion (who you see in the very beginning) to offer a counter perspective (a link to his previous human self).
As the alien race has long since died, the Master uses the pyramid to find his/her replacement, hence the events of the movie, as they were all "set up" by the Master so the crew (which he hand picked for various reasons: some based on intelligence; others based on fighting experience, while others picked for having a tremendous rack, etc) could be tested for their worthiness to replace him.
Thus Edward Albert (or Space Zorro), after facing his own fears, must face and defeat the fears of the rest of the crew, whereupon he replaces Ray Walston as the new Master, with Robert Englund as his human advisor.
00:00-00:39
And I thought the X-Men Timeline was confusing.
ComiXProvider FTW_02 Mcavoy or Stewart? These timelines are confusing.
R.I.P. Sid Haig in real life.
I watched this movie when it was new. I was seven years old . This movie scared the S*** out of me. When Jonie's face popped...I was done
The enduring legacy of MST3K is the popularity of channels like this!
You're probably right, but I tried watching MST3K and really didn't like it, whereas I've been watching Brandon's videos since not long after he started this channel.
Galaxy of Terror was a great film to watch. Great stuff!
great channel. I have a very short attention span and I have never been able to sit through most of the movies you have reviewed, so I really appreciate what you are doing.
I'm gonna need a flowchart for all that stuff at the beginning of the video.
Is that Laura Palmers mom?
yup. i thought i recognized her.
A Giant Maggot Rape Scene.
........I just.....just..........why the flying fuck?
WHY WOULD YOU THINK THAT WAS A GOOD IDEA TO PUT IN THE MOVIE!?
Also how? And then follow up that how it did that with WHY it did that?
Edit: Nevermind, greatest fears somehow combined. Dumb, but at least it makes more sense than it just being a randomly a giant rapist maggot. Still an fucking horrible and weird idea.
*THIS VIDEO IS MOVIE REVIEW COMEDY GOLD!!*
I would like to see you do a review of Spookies. It's a low budget horror movie from the early 80s. But a lot of people like that movie, myself included. It has quite a cult following. If someone remade that movie nowadays, I think it could be a great movie.
I'm expecting that the MST3K Alien Reference will be an entire review of its own.
my dad used to take me to random movies when i was a kid. we walked into Galaxy of Terror knowing nothing. yeah there was the worm scene, but as a kid on first viewing in the theatre the rest of the movie was also insane. it was scary too. in alien you knew that threat and it was terrifying, but in Galaxy of Terror you did NOT know the threat and that was terrifying in its own way. the effects may look really cheap now and they looked rather cheap back then, but not 'that' cheap. for a B movie they were pretty good
Thanks for your POV its always to understand movies with different perceptions in mind
0:40 Arms Akimbo: Oops.
WTF happened in this movie? What was the point/goal of the bad guy? Is the mustache guy getting the sun head a good thing? A bad thing? Explain movie!
And where did Robert Englund go? He was the only one to figure out what was going on, survived the encounter... and then just disappears.
I think he got burned to death by an angry mob of parents offscreen.
TheCrazyTalkKid That sir was pure genius.
An ancient race created a test that would grant those that passed it amazing powers. Walston's character survived it years ago and became Planet Master. After a lot of time passed, he decided to pass the power on to someone else who could pass it, hence him choosing the crew and even trying to help the captain survive. Cameron's fate is open. Could be bad or good. Only time will tell.
its also interesting how this movie doesn't actually have a real, singular monster, instead being manifiestations of the victims' fears,a dn done so in creative ways (in fact there's only like two or three actual full monsters in this film and they're not even that focused on!)
Dont forget the already announced sequel to the sequel of the prequel to the original that is also a prequel to the original
LOL xD
cant stop watching your review ! your chanel is a jewel and a diamond that needs more people to know about
Fun fact Hudson from Aliens met James Cameron on this set as he was working as one of the crew.
Saw alien Covent in the theater for my 29th birthday and...I love seeing the xenomorph in action doin its thing, but I'm starting to hate the human part.
So forgettable,real shame.Alien and Aliens I've watched many times and still enjoy them immensely, those two last one despite having big budget, director and A list actors got absolutely nothing that would make me watch it again.
I'm surprised that you didn't mention that Erin Moran just died. She was Joanie from Happy Days and the woman who get strangled to death by vines in this film.
He probably filmed this before her death.
Probably, but adding a title card at the beginning or end takes less than a minute. I'm not saying he had to, but I'm just surprised he didn't.
Man, what a great shlockfest this one is, definitely one of the more grandiose, impressive B-movies among Corman's humongous output. Also one of the very few horror movies I've seen in which the deaths genuinely make me feel queasy in parts. Something about the effects and acting really makes some of the death scenes feel cruel as hell.
To be honest, story wise this movie is more akin to Solaris than Alien
This was shot under the title "Mindwarp: An Infinity of Terror" and I think a trailer might exist with that title. Don't know if it was ever actually released as such, but it's a better title for what it is. Though not nearly as exploitative.
This movie has one bad ass cast...sad captain Spalding didn't do much or say much
Interestingly the reason that Sid Haig only has two lines is because he didn't think the dialogue worked with his character and asked if he could perform mostly silent instead, even saying: "Have you read the script?"
The one thing that I took away from this (besides incredibly confused sexuality as I was 11 at the time after the molesting maggot scene) was James Cameron's awesome effects and tech design.
Roger and Gene Corman also made NIGHT OF THE BLOOD BEAST, and that's another ALIEN forerunner, like the ones mentioned at the beginning.
Neil Blonkamps Alien movie isn't coming out, he said so himself.
I'm personally fine with that. I'm a fan of Alien 3 (I disliked it at first but it's grown on me and after reading the various early drafts (most of which were pretty awful) and reading the comics and finding them to be rather underwhelming) I came to see it as a good film on its own) and while it might have been fun, it really looked like nothing more than fanfiction brought to life.
Neil said the chances are slim and Fox hasn´t confirmed it´s cancelled, but still I think the chances to see Alien 5 are 0 at this point.
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I see Alien 3 sort of how I see the Ender's Game film. There's so much that wasn't there but should have been there, and a thing or two that was there but definitely shouldn't have been, but I try not to let that all get in the way of appreciating all the good things that *are* there.
Personally, I think Alien 3 would be much more likable if, instead of receiving definitive deaths, the other two main characters had just been written out via some sort of open-ended separation, implying that they were lost beyond Ripley's ability to find them but still possibly alive in stasis. Would have had the same feeling of harshness (potentially being in a permanent ice coma in the vastness of space) without that touch of spiteful meanness that the unceremonious deaths had.
Plus, imagine the possibilities for a Hicks film, a Newt film, etc! We could have gotten the Hicks film that Alien 3 almost was, and we could have gotten a really awesome Newt spinoff. I always liked the idea of how she went from regular innocent civilized girl to feral survivor, and I would have loved to see that play out on a wider scale after she crash lands on some unusual planet. Xenomorphs don't even need to be involved, it could add in all sorts of totally new aspects and ideas to flesh out the universe.
Instead the most we got was just that underwhelming comic story line where she mysteriously goes from being tough as nails to irredeemably depressed and sorta trashy. :
Well, it would have been nice to leave their fates open-ended, I don't think there would have been a Newt spin-off, as Carrie Henn refused to come back, no matter what script she was shown or how much money she was offered, as she became annoyed with the popularity of her character and was alright with Newt being killed off. Plus, I wouldn't want her recast, she was the heart and soul of that role. As for Hicks... well, he always came off as a bit bland to me, it's probably due to the fact that Biehn was a last minute replacement, but I prefer Ripley as the lead than Hicks, who, in the early draft of Alien 3, was as generic as ever.
And I don't think their deaths were mean-spirited, as there was definite mourning and sorrow to their deaths, Newt's especially. Just count yourself lucky they didn't let Vincent Ward do his 'monks in space' version of Alien 3, where not only would Newt (who he specifically wanted to kill off because he thought she was annoying), Hicks, and Bishop would have all died off screen, but Ripley was hardly broken up about it and the Alien in that draft is supposed to have Newt's memories and wants revenge on Ripley... don't ask, it's really stupid. That version ended with a flat-out ripoff of the Exorcist.
And Ripley's depression makes total sense to me, no mystery at all. Her happy ending was so close, and was snatched away at the last minute. Plus she was still a bad ass
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R.I.P. Sid Haig
Considering I've seen two of the films you have planned already, I'm strapped in for this! Also, no love for Robert Englund in V?
Fun fact: the crash-dive scene said "...Glide Path 0.007" degrees; I LOVE being an obsessive movie-nerd!