Yet another made-for-TV Sci Fi Channel original movie. With terrible scripts, low rent CG, and low budgets consisting of pocket change and a used gum wrapper, these movies are perhaps more famous for being rip offs of better movie than they are for the list of B-list, C-list, and God only knows what-list levels of […] […]
Read moreThey Came from Beyond Space (1967) — Movie Reviews by a Mook
In 1969, America went to the moon. To top us, the British made a movie about aliens on the moon coming to us in 1967. I’m still thinking we got the better end of the bargain here, but I don’t blame the UK for trying! Meteors fall in formation in a field in the English […]
Read moreSpace Truckers (1996) — Movie Reviews by a Mook
Blue collar space movies are always a delight. Often times they’re full of working class Joes who are highly skilled at what they do but are not always the brightest when it comes to whatever terrible situation they find themselves getting into. Alien is the high mark, but the misfits of Dark Star, the non-astronauts […]
Read moreSaturn 3 (1980) — Movie Reviews by a Mook
In the future, Earth sucks, so humans grow food throughout the solar system. Somehow, Kirk Douglas and Farrah Fawcett have ended up a couple working on one of these hydroponics stations on Saturn’s third moon, and Harvey Keitel is a crazy astronaut who effectively works as a delivery guy and installation tech. He’s basically the […] […]
Read moreVicious Lips (1986) — Movie Reviews by a Mook
There are more guns on that poster than there are in the movie. Also, most of the characters don’t dress like that, though the hair is actually pretty accurate. The boots are way off though. In general, that poster conveys a lot more action than actually happens in Vicious Lips. A futuristic New Wave generic […]
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Inseminoid (1981)
AKA: Horror Planet A group of scientists are on a distant planet doing an archaeological expedition involving the study of a long extinct species. Everything seems perfectly under control, but as with all movies like this, inevitably SOMETHING GOES HORRIBLY WRONG when an explosion of unknown origin kills one of the crew and injures excavator […]
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TerrorVision (1986)
TerrorVision is about an alien garbage heap/pet/ball of slime, that in the process of being destroyed gets dematerialized and accidentally gets broadcast into some poor yuppie’s satellite dish. Chaos and slimy deaths ensue. Actually the characters were already pretty slimy to begin with. The monster just helped them along into their more natural state of being. […]
Read moreAlien Raiders (2008) – Movie Reviews by a Mook
Alien parasitic plagues in a grocery store? Why that could never happen in America! Except for, you know, COVID and all that. You know what, suddenly this movie is feeling like it thinks we’re smarter than we are… In a small town in the middle of nowhere, a team of heavily armed criminals arrive at […]
Read moreLegion (1998) — Movie Reviews by a Mook
Made-for-TV misadventures, is there anything grander? Don’t answer that, we both know there isn’t. Legion is another made-for-tv movie, a 1998 science fiction horror picture that borrows more than a little from the likes of Aliens, Predator, and The Dirty Dozen. It’s a story of prisoner soldiers in wartime turning on each other to confront […] […]
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The Thing (1982)
A small team of isolated, American scientists in the arctic have a strange encounter with a couple of Norweigians who seem hell bent on chasing down and killing a dog. The two manic Norweigians end up dead and a couple of the Americans fly out to their neighbor’s base to see what could have caused […]
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