Very well executed

Absolutely the worst movie.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

I will start this review by saying I love low-budget movies. As a kid I was bombarded by them on Saturday-afternoon TV, plus my father was always showing me these strange ones from the 70's and 80's that were made in Canada, Italy, countries like that. I have been around those types of movies even since the age of 3, 23 years ago. Roger Corman is obviously one of the first names you think of when you think low-budget films. I am a fan of him myself. To get to the review this is one of the films I have heard about and read about in countless magazines, movie trailers, review sites, etc., but never seen until just recently. Warning! This review will probably have spoilers!This film starts off looking like a low-budget Star Trek-type space opera, about 10-12 minutes in it becomes more of an Alien clone, ending up with an ending that is like a psychological mind-bender. To put the plot-line in as basic a way as possible without telling too much, pretty much a ship-crew goes on a mission examining another ship that was lost on a planet and find out something is way wrong with the situation.The acting for the most part was okay. They weren't really great, but it was not exactly dull or mediocre. Granted most of the actors probably didn't do too much before this so I could forgive it for that reason, although Robert Englund does a good job.The soundtrack for me wasn't necessarily great. It was one of the soundtracks that fit the circumstances, how it was a lot of weird sounds and synth chords, so it works as a film-being-a-horror-type standpoint, but I didn't enjoy it as a way of being something that I would listen to on it's own for enjoyment. So the soundtrack is good, but not that type of good. It was composed by Barry Schrader.The effects in this movie is fantastic. From the weird looking computer animations on the ships computers systems, to the stomach-twisting, and surprisingly graphic blood and guts effects. This film was definitely made before CGI, so they had to come up with creative ways to make the effects, and they are great. Nowadays they spend thousands of dollars making these effects on computers that for the most part end up looking like crap, and here they are in this film using techniques that are very cheap to make, some of the effects and stuff probably not taking more than 30-40 dollars to make and these look way better than most of these computer-generated effects you see today. The effects in this film do not disappoint. The only effect I didn't really care for was the weird red glow around the mystical beings head, but that was about it.This film was surprisingly graphic, violent,and psychologically and philosophically deep for not only a Roger Corman film, but for low-budget 80's films in general. Also the cinematography and camera work for the most part was pretty good. Set designs as well. The alien planet was very creepy in appearance and you did get a real sense of dread looking at it. This film genuinely gives you goose bumps, sometimes before anything even happens. This film does give you some real shocks. James Cameron was also one of the production designers for this film, and some of the effects and landscapes does make you think of his work in Aliens. If you are a fan of science fiction-based horror films or low-budget films, check this out. It is a recommended watch. I give this film a 7.5 out of 10.

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

I got caught up in this film, even though it totally confused me. Who are these people and why are they so intent on this mission? it seems that there is a bona-fide death wish. They are all either neurotic, frightened, or pure sociopaths. They have no respect for each other and some have gone around the bend. The seemingly sanest is the cook, played by Ray Walston ("My Favorite Martian"), but that is short lived as well. Corman throws every type of gore and slime he can think of, including a woman being raped by some gigantic maggot. I wish I knew what these people were trying to accomplish. All they seem to do is become isolated and then become the prey of the monsters on the planet. There is perpetual jumping out at people where you can anticipate it happening almost every time there is a solitary figure on the screen. Erin Moran from "Happy Days" has a major role. The whole thing has no moderation. The difference between this film and some of the more successful ones is not in production costs. It has to do with a kind of control, a creation of suspense. Mostly, we are not privy to what motivates these people to do what they do. The dialogue is also about as stilted and downright idiotic as it can get. Still, it's hard to take one's eyes off it at times.

OK he was the Production Designer... but his name was top of the credits at the end of the film. This is a low budget Roger Corman film who brought us a lot of other cheesy movies that I personally like to watch. To no surprise many of the actors who get started in Roger Corman films go on to bigger and better parts. For example; Jack Nicholson in his 1963 production of "The Raven". In Galaxy of Terror we have a cast of virtual unknowns like; Robert Englund and Zalman King. There are some other familiar faces in this movie such as; Ray Walston, Erin Moran, and Sid Haig. The acting is crap, it is a poorly done remake of several sci-fi plots, and the special effects are mediocre. But that is what this movie has going for it, from the perspective that it is something to laugh at and poke fun. I laughed at Cos, "panicky guy role" played by Jack Blessing. For a bunch of tough space rescue team, they all seemed to scream a lot. All the movie monsters in this one are laughable, but just because this is a inferior and shoddy sci-fi/horror movie doesn't mean it should be viewed by children. Dameia played by Taaffe O'Connell, by far, had the best tasteless death scene in the whole movie. Just as bad as Ellen Sandweiss death scene in "The Evil Dead", when she was raped by the woods... not in the woods, by the woods.Good for a MST3K party, get some friends over and rent or view it on Netflix this month.