Redundant and unnecessary.

Better Late Then Never

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

The best rating I can give "Creature" is three stars. And that's only because it had a little bit of fright at times. Otherwise, the set, script, filming and acting show clearly that this is a second tier or lower monster sci-fi film. Had this movie been made in the 1950s, during the revival of interest in the genre, it would have stood up quite well. But by 1985, audiences had learned to expect much more. The Star Trek TV series of 1966-69 had set the stage for greater imagination, special effects, and design of monsters and sci-fi films associated with space travel. It's spin-offs and three movies of 1979, 1982 and 1984 further advanced the art of sci-fi and monster films. Other films showed brilliant special effects, set designs and cinematography. "2001: A Space Odyssey" of 1968 and "Star Wars" of 1977 set high standards. And, of course, "Alien" of 1979 set the horror and fright bar for monsters above anything before it. To rate this weak sci-fi monster film any higher, it seems to me, might be an insult to the film industry and people who can create such wonderful films and programs as those of the Star Wars series, "Alien," and others.

'Alien' was a classic. It was also financially successful. Therefore, it stood to reason that a hundred other films would try to capitalise on its coattails. 'Alien' – sorry – 'Creature' is one of them. Only it's rubbish. So why did I sit through the entire ninety minutes? Probably because I was eager to see just how much worse it could rip off a superior film. And it rips Alien off quite well.Astronauts go into space (do you really care where they go or why they're there?) and meet an alien (sorry – CREATURE – I keep forgetting). It stalks them. You'll probably be able to tell who's going to die and when. That's about it. So why didn't I turn it off? Normally, I quite like films that are so-bad-they're-good. However, this isn't so much 'so-bad-it's-good' as 'so-bad-it's unbelievable-that-no-one-sued.' Seriously, it is so much like Alien it's a wonder no one called in the lawyers. I can only assume that Creature just didn't make enough money for anyone at 20th Century Fox to bother with.Actually, I quite liked the idea behind the whole story – I won't mention what it is as it's a half decent attempt to come up with some sort of original plot. But a slightly good overall idea doesn't really make it worth watching. You only really need to bother with this film if you've seen Alien and want to see how bad another film can copy it without getting sued.Also, there's a really weird bit when a creepy older man does his best to constantly sexually assault any female member of the cast and the rest of the crew just kind of let him off. Weird. And definitely creepy.A sad, carbon copy of Alien, but if you're a fan of the Ridley Scott's classic, you may find some strange enjoyment out of this. Maybe.

This show gives the audience an honest attempt at a crisis-type movie like: Airport, Poseidon Adventure, Earthquake, and others in outer space where it tries to imitate but only to a degree the Aliens theme. It has decent acting and convincing settings. There are harsh conditions successfully portrayed- ironically with too dim photography and low lighting in certain scenes (imagine how turbulent conditions would be on some planets) but this is a well-intended effect and not because, as some viewers claim, it might be a low-budget B movie. There is lots of edgy friction between the astronauts and scary suspense. Several mishaps put together including a surprise appearance by Klaus Kinsky, which is set as another angle to the story, happen to the crew that seem impossible to cope with in this show and holds the audience in tension. There are disturbing occurrences going on, in part because of the volatile nature of the planet Titan where this all takes place. There is a scene which eerily, although graphically, emphasizes a female spaceman's physique because of the bizarre occurrences happening in this unstable atmosphere of Saturn's moon. This scene is a realistic, yet important, attempt that the movie makes at demonstrating the possibly intoxicating effects on people of poisonous atmospheres that are there in space which the crew have to deal with--just as authentic and technically-minded as a science fiction story by Robert Heinlein might have been written. The enemy monster in this show is reminiscent of an alien villain monster from Gerry Andersen's "Fireball XL -5", a science fiction television puppet show in the 1960's. Same sinister approaching movements although these actions are blurred a bit, but this monster is made on a larger scale of course. Movies like this one often times succeed in making Outer Space appear as believable to viewers as a negative Utopia might cause one to have a persistent dread. Creature is probably an underrated, and maybe under appreciated, film for this science fiction genre. It is a show very much worthy of your trying out!

This movie is 97 minutes of pure terribleness. There are just really no saving factors for it. Obviously the team sets themselves up for destruction in the start as they decided to land (against the only smart cast member's orders) in a crevice where another ship has already gone silent. Even after they crash and people start dying, rather than sticking together, they run off in separate directions getting infected left and right. It's like a Benny Hill music should be playing in the background as one individual commands the next to "go to engineering" where characters keep dying one by one. The cast is terrible. Not only does pretty much every character look and speak the same, but the lead actor Klaus Kinski(in the last 5 years of his life) I believe has truly become crazy. His constant switching between German and English is hard to understand and annoying. I could make a better creature with poster tubes, some engine oil and fake teeth. The special effects are god awful, as well as the most of the props look like straight out of Dollar Tree. Every time a door opens, I hear a tie fighter shooting the place up. The little bit of gore that was in the movie wasn't horrible, but hardly makes up for the sheer ridiculousness of the creature, characters, and plot. I'd say the entire $750,000 of the budget was used on the one good head explosion the movie had. We podcasted this movie along with the 2011 Creature and recommend exactly neither of them. Stay away...stay far away....I usually will give one out of ten stars for acknowledging that yes, this is indeed a movie. I will give it a second for mediocre gore and the nostalgia of Klaus Kinski.Check us out for more movie reviews by looking up Motion Picture Meltdown on Facebook, Unitedcypher.net, or MPMPodcast on Twitter.