Benedito Dias Rodrigues Fantastic dark visual,great sets,creepy monsters,sexy scenes,clever plot amazing special effects,nice casting...anyway it's an example how make a perfect B-Sci-Fi movie should be....all elements are here...Zalman King as always a bad temper,Sid Haig a Crystal's guy is great...Ray Walston in a convincing acting and Taaffe O'Connell sexy than never...fantastic picture from the master of horror Roger Corman and James Cameron still ignored!!Resume:First watch: 1990 / How many: 2 / Source: TV-DVD / Rating: 7

Blueghost I can't remember whether I rented this with friends or saw it on HBO late at night ... probably both, but either way I remember scrunching my lips at the thing and wondering why it was made.Correction; I didn't wonder why it was made, but why the people who made it didn't invest a few more dollars into the thing, or at least put a more serious effort forward. At the time horror films were the big rage (an idiotic genre to begin with), and someone, somewhere, decided that marrying horror with Star Wars would be a great idea and money maker.The problem with that is that money, time, effort and craftsmanship went into the making of Star Wars. Someone who had a story to tell, who was interested in social psychology, the myths created by mankind, history, and updating the old Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers' properties, made Star Wars. I of course speak of George Lucas. And the people who made "Galaxy of Terror" are no George Lucas.Here's the thing, for a scifi film it's not all that convincing. From a story point not all of the characters' plots are completed. From a "horror" perspective it isn't even scary nor suspenseful. And, in retrospect, knowing what I do about the horror genre, I can see why this marriage of genres was doomed for a bitter divorce.Horror relies on superstition. Fear. Science fiction is about using technology, science, or some kind of ability to overcome adversaries. One is steeped in religious and tribal fears, the other is about embracing knowledge for victory (or examine how science and technology have gone wrong). I mean there are a few films that successfully mix the two, "Alien" being one of them, but "Galaxy of Terror" is not one.Another "Let's make Star Wars meets movie-X" film that was made by people who only understand marketing data.Avoid.

amesmonde On a desolate, storm-lashed planet called Morganthus, survivors of a crashed spaceship are attacked by their fears.Director Bruce D. Clark offers a choppy edited and scripted affair. Nevertheless, there are some interesting kill scenes including a man fighting his doppelgänger, a woman being consumed by a giant maggot (Taaffe O'Connell's notorious death scene), another man being killed by a throwing star by his own severed arm. As with most Roger Corman productions there's plenty of imagination but low budget production values. The cast are an assortment of familiar TV and film actors from Happy Days to V and a Nightmare on Elm St. who do their best with the script and ill-fitting costumes. There's Sid Haig, Robert Englund to name a few. There's some nice effects on display, along with mat paintings and sound effects. Interestingly as a precursor to bigger things, James Cameron serves as production designer and second unit director, there are reminiscent smidgens of The Terminator and Aliens visuals on display, even though not as we lit or executed.Galaxy of Terror is unashamedly a series of kills strung together with gore moments and effects. But so were the majority of films of its genre at time. Worth viewing if only out of interest for the practical effects work.

FlashCallahan As a lone spaceship proceeds on its long voyage across space, the crew encounter a strange pyramid form.Surprise turns to horror as one by one, they discover that their darkest nightmares are all starting to become real.The pyramid has to be behind it all somehow, but how can they save themselves from its influence....Corman strikes again. This film stinks of an Alien rip off, and The Shining, and probably influenced Event Horizon, but at the end of the day, it's a very boring movie.I wanted a camp B-movie with so bad their good performances and cheesy lines, but when it cam to all this, it was just too much of an effort to get excited by it all.The effects for the time and the budget, are surprisingly okay, especially when Haig loses his arms, but effects do not make a decent movie.I'm sure it's gained a cult status in it's 33 years, but it just didn't hit the spot with me.