Review of Inseminoid

Inseminoid (1981)
1/10
It really is that bad
22 January 2004
Warning: Spoilers
Imagine a bad sci-fi horror film. I reckon you're thinking something like 'Screamers' (which had a decent plotline btw). Now think worse. OK, you're at 'Re-Animator 2'. Now think even worse and you're at 'Inseminoid'. I watched this with my brothers, who hate cheese. I love it and like nothing better than to sit and watch a late-night Cheezy(TM) movie. They poked fun at the start for cheap sets, unknown actors and terrible dialogue. I defended(!?) this film (or at least the genre) by explaining that these factors are essential to any properly bad horror film. I was eating my words very soon.

*** SPOILERS AHEAD ***

This blatant rip-off of the immortal 'Alien' is too bad for words. I watched it in a daze towards the end, hoping against all evidence that there would be a twist at the end and the film would save itself. I could have saved myself the torture. There wasn't and it didn't.

The "Big Bad" is a rather weak-looking blonde woman who nevertheless manages to kill every other crewmember after being impregnated by an alien. Never mind the biological improbability of such a union and the fact that her DNA was completely rewritten in a matter of hours - allowing her superhuman strength and the ability to survive both intense cold and poisonous atmospheres - SHE DOESN'T LOOK IN THE LEAST BIT SCARY! The only monster is seen briefly while raping the woman (in a ludicrously overlong and hammed-up sequence) while the offspring (can they be called children if not human?) are ridiculous. How on earth (or any other planet) can you bite someone's neck if you have no teeth? Is it possible to gum a person to death?

All in all, a very bad film which is just not worth watching for any reason except absolute boredom. I would rate it as the worst film I've ever seen.
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