Star Crystal (1986)
2/10
"Oh crap, the characters are all dead already!" "Don't worry, I have a way to pad this film."
11 June 2010
Warning: Spoilers
I remember watching this one as a child and it was not exactly the most original movie starting out. Clearly one of the many "Alien" clones out there this one features the ship that takes on a crystal and said crystal spawns an alien. I shall call said creature star creature for the purposes of this review. Well star creature methodically kills the crew of this vessel and he does so very quickly with kills that are typical of low budget horror. We have the typical vent scenes, a lab death and things of that nature. Star creature seems nearly indestructible as plan after plan fails to stop this beast from killing the crew. Then we are down to the last two members of the crew and it is time for the final showdown, right? No, wrong! It is time for the people to become friends with star creature and make the first part of the film with all the death a distant memory as this alien becomes friendly. You get scenes of him and the last two survivors helping each other and having a fond farewell scene. Excuse me, star creature butchered the rest of the crew and now it is friendly? I mean it tries to explain that it was defending itself, but really now how much danger is a creature that is nearly indestructible really in, seriously? At least they did not have the last two remaining crew throw their arms around the thing at the end and go "we are going to miss you so much, star creature". Though I can see the female going "goodbye, though I still don't understand why you killed everyone" and the guy going "shut up, it is almost gone and we will finally not have to worry about that thing mutilating us if we happen to startle it". All in all a bad "Alien" rip off, that I will say got a bit original when the alien got friendly. Thankfully, in the "Alien" movies you never had scenes where Ripley had tea with the aliens in an effort to understand why they must shoot their offspring into the mouths of other living things to procreate.
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