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Roger Corman retired from directing in 1971 to focus on production and distribution through his company New World Pictures. New World eventually turned into something of a cult movie factory, which was entirely in line with Corman's philosophy of making movies fast, cheap, and memorable.
Bruce Clark's Galaxy of Terror fit the Corman mold; it was New World's third film of 1981, its budget was well under one million dollars, and a young Production Designer named James Cameron -- according to Hollywwod legend -- took a moderately creative but forgettable death scene and turned it into one of the most talked-about shots in B-movie history.
Derided somewhat inaccurately as a cheap knockoff of 1979's Alien, the plot involves the crew of spaceship called the Quest, who have been dispatched to a mystery planet on a rescue mission. Of course, the rescuers soon find themselves in need of rescuing. Stranded on the planet by a bad landing, they discover that the crew they came to save has met a gruesome demise. It's not long before they are under assault themselves -- one by one, of course. The variation in the time-honored formula is that each crewmember is done in by a manifestation of their own worst fear.
As with many Corman projects, it's worth it to stick around while the credits roll: In addition to the aforementioned Cameron, the crew included a set decorator named Bill Paxton, and the cast included Erin "Joanie" Moran, veteran Ray Walston, a pre-Freddy Krueger Robert Englund, and future director Zalman King. |
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Additional Information
- R
- 81 minutes
- Directed by Bruce Clark
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