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Don't Believe the Hype

A Disappointing Continuation

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Inseminoid (AKA: Horror Planet) is directed by Norman J. Warren and written by Nick and Gloria Maley. It stars Judy Geeson, Robin Clarke, Jennifer Ashley and Stephanie Beacham. Music is by John Scott and cinematography by John Metcalfe.A crew of space scientists come under attack after an alien creature impregnates one of the team, causing her maternal instincts to turn her into a homicidal maniac.The makers denied it is a cheap knock-off of Ridley Scott's Alien, and in their defence, 20th Century Fox supremo's viewed Inseminoid and had absolutely no problem with it. So? Is it a tacky cash in? Well judge for yourself, but ultimately it's films like this that make you treasure Alien even more; regardless of budget differences.Inseminoid, great title at least, is hysterically bad. It doesn't make any sense (seriously, the screenplay must have been written in 5 minutes), its cheapness is "not" endearing and the acting is appalling. Add in some awful effects work, costuming care of the decade that time forgot, and the over powering sense of sleaze for gore's sake, and you got one bad movie on your hands. Is it mindless fun? Well it is funny! When actors like Brit babes Geeson and Beacham take it seriously, the former really throwing herself into the crazed mommy role, then it's hard not to laugh, even more so when the alien glove puppets show up. To be fair to Beacham, she came out and said she did it purely for the money, but the honourable thing to do would have been to wave her fee and distribute it back to the paying punters at the box offices who had to suffer this tripe.Alien rape, murder bedlam and cannibalism, it shouldn't be funny, but it is. 2/10

One of the top reviews is very extensive and boasts this film is "Gore Galore." I didn't read that until after watching the movie and I honestly cannot understand what struck them as gory. I remember thinking that the movie could easily get away with a PG-13 rating considering it has basically no nudity or sex at all, the killings are shortcutted and mostly bloodless. Aside from that, the movie is extremely slow paced and boring. It's not bad because it was for all intensive purposes an 'Alien' rip-off, it's bad because the director used all that previously developed footing and then did nothing creative with it. So the movie gets slammed for being an Alien rip-off because not only does it follow the plotfolds of that movie 100%, but it also fails miserably to even come close to the level of suspense, writing, or neat special effects. If you want to see a cool alien rip-off that actually succeeds on some level of being creative in it's own right, then check out X-Tro, X-Tro 2, or Alien 2 : Sulla Tera.

Inseminoid is set in the future on a distant planet where a small team of archeologist's are studying some previously uncharted alien tombs, strange crystals are found inside the tomb which seem to give off psychic energy. While in the tomb Mitch (Trevor Thomas) & Sandy (Judy Geeson) are attacked by an alien creature which kills Mitch & captures Sandy. Sandy suddenly finds herself back at the research base with no memory of what happened, it is discovered that Sandy is two months pregnant. Sandy has some strange marks on her arm & begins to change due to the influence of the alien crystals, eventually Sandy goes on a rampage throughout the facility killing everyone she can in order to protect the unborn alien creature inside her...This British production was directed by Norman J. Warren & is probably better known in the US under it's alternative title Horror Planet rather than it's proper & better title Inseminoid, written by special make-up effects man Nick Maley & his wife Gloria everyone who says anything about Inseminoid seem to mention the fact that it's a low budget Alien (1979) rip-off which I think is a little unfair. Maybe Inseminoid was intended to be a straight Alien cash-in but I would suspect it was more of a sci-fi cash-in in general with Satr Wars (1977) & sequel being particularly big at the time. I mean Alien is set on a spaceship, Inseminoid isn't as it takes place entirely on an alien planet. Alien features an alien stalking & killing people, Inseminoid doesn't as it's more of a possession film as Sandy is the one who stalks & kills. Alien puts a lot of emphasis on it's creature, Inseminoid doesn't & the alien here is barely even seen. While I can definitely see similarities there are enough clear differences here for me not to write Inseminoid off as an Alien rip-off although it does come close, there are far more blatant Alien rip-offs out there, Creature (1985) for instance anyone? At 90 odd minutes in length Inseminoid drags a bit during the first half but once Sandy goes mental it never lets up even if it's fairly average going, the script feels unfinished or more likely scenes weren't shot. The crystals are never explained properly like what they are or their true power, the alien insemination scene makes no sense with Sandy having to be naked in the alien planets atmosphere for it to inseminate her, we never learn why the expedition is there in the first place or why none of these people can come up with a decent plan to capture or kill Sandy. Having said all that Inseminoid has more going on that you might expect even if it's not very well explained, it has a certain sleazy charm to it that I liked & enough happens to stop you from going to sleep. While not a sci-fi horror masterpiece by any means I did have some fun with Inseminoid & I seem to hate it a lot less than most around here on the IMDb.While Inseminoid never really convinces you that it's set on an alien planet the makers do they best they can on obviously limited resources, the sets & costumes do look alright actually & the film has more production value than a lot of recent low budget horror. Filmed in full 2:35:1 widescreen director Warren tries to keep his camera moving & give us a few nice angles but making people run up & down dark caves & corridors exciting & interesting is a thankless task & not easy to pull off when it's what most of your film basically is. The gore is nowhere near as graphic as many would have you believe, in fact I found it rather tame. There's some blood splatter, some guts splattered on the floor, someone's head is bashed in, a woman tries to cut her own leg off in a confusing scene there's & a couple of gory bite wounds but otherwise very little else. The alien planet shots are tinted red & purple & are quite effective, the other special effects are surprisingly decent, not brilliant but perfectly acceptable considering the age & budget of the film.With a supposed budget of about $2,000,000 most of that ended up on screen to be fair, filmed in the Chislehurst Caves in Kent, in London & apparently in Malta. The acting is pretty good here & a decent cast are taking this far too seriously, there are one or two familiar faces here with Judy Geeson, Stephanie Beacham & Victoria Tennant all making an appearance.Inseminoid is a film which is just considered an bad Alien rip-off because I suppose basically it is but there's enough deviation here & the script takes slightly different directions that it's not the worst offender out there. To be honest I quite liked it, it's quite good to look at, features a bit of gore, a bit of nudity & some nice cinematography. I don't want to make it sound too good but I certain think it's better than many give it credit for.

Britain has produced some great science fiction writers, such as the late Sir Arthur C Clarke, and an iconic science fiction television show, "Doctor Who". Sci-fi, however, has not been something that the British cinema has normally excelled in, although there have been occasional exceptions such as "Village of the Damned" and "Quest for Love". In the late seventies and early eighties, however, sci-fi was all the rage, following the success of "Star Wars", and even the British felt they had to get in on the act. Lack of finance meant that Britain was unable to produce its own big-budget space epics of the "Star Wars" type; that camp, self-mocking parody "Flash Gordon" was about the closest we got. "Inseminoid" is rather based upon another successful American science fiction film of the late seventies, "Alien".A group of interplanetary archaeologists (apparently in the far distant future there will be such an academic discipline) are carrying out a dig on an alien planet, otherwise known as Chislehurst (a dormitory town on the southern edge of London). One of the team, Sandy, is raped and impregnated by an alien creature. (Although the film is set many centuries in the future, all the characters have nice, user-friendly twentieth century English names like Mark, Gary, Sharon and Sandy). Pregnancy seems to change Sandy's character for the worse, because she goes on a homicidal rampage, slaughtering her colleagues one by one in order to feed on their blood. Although Sandy is outnumbered by about ten to one, and although the others have weapons which she lacks, they are unable to combine effectively to overcome her, merely offering themselves up like lambs to the slaughter.In the course of the film we make some interesting discoveries about the planet and its inhabitants, namely:- • Alien males have transparent plastic penises.• The main symptom of pregnancy among alien females is not morning sickness but murderous bloodlust. This possibly explains why their species is on the verge of extinction.• Contrary to what biologists might think, it is quite possible for humanoid life to evolve on a barren planet with temperatures of ninety degrees below zero.• There may be intelligent life in outer space but there is precious little in the British film industry.The film was made on a very low budget, as will be evident from the sets, costumes and props. The only thing director Norman Warren can do to make the exterior scenes look a bit less like Chislehurst is to shoot them through a red filter, although that makes it look as though the characters are moving at the bottom of an ocean of strawberry jam.Low budgets are not necessarily an impossible obstacle in the science-fiction field; the makers of British television series such as "Doctor Who" and "Blake's Seven", and even American ones such as "Star Trek", did not have at their disposal the huge amounts of cash George Lucas spent on "Star Wars". They could, however, sometimes call upon intelligent scripts and decent acting, which is not the case with "Inseminoid". The cast, at least on the female side, includes some relatively well-known names such as Judy Geeson, Stephanie Beacham and Victoria Tennant, none of whom look as though they know what they are doing in a film like this.At its best, science fiction can ask some pertinent questions about how science and technology might possibly develop in the future, and also about the philosophical, ethical and social implications of those developments. At its worst, it is "Plan 9 from Outer Space". On a scale of Ed Wood to Asimov, "Inseminoid" comes very close to the bottom end; it is only the third film I have ever given the minimum mark. The science fiction setting is really no more than an excuse for some video-nasty type gore and mayhem. 1/10.