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I can't believe that people keep comparing this film to Alien. First of all, the original Alien had a budget of 11 million dollars. Galaxy of Terror was made for around 5 million. Second, Alien was "inspired" by many horror/scifi films that went before it. If it wasn't a crime for Alien why then is it a crime that this film used a currently popular genre title as inspiration? Third, Galaxy of Terror has more in common, at least story wise, with Forbidden Planet than Alien.

This has the look of a much more expensive production and it takes full advantage of it's exploitation roots. It has a fun cast, some minor gore (much less than you would expect in a film like this), and some gratuitous nudity especially during a rather nasty scene.

It's a fun diversion for fans of these types of films and can be recommended for many reasons. You get to see Robert Englund before he donned the glove, Ray Walston after he was everybody's Favorite Martian and Erin Moran after her years as Joanie. You also get to see some early effects work by James Cameron.

Sure, it gets a little confusing in spots and there's some continuity problems and more than it's share plot holes, but it's still a terrific movie to look at, great set designs and some of the monster effects are decent (and some are bad). It's all that I expect from Roger Corman with more than enough to keep me interested.

Make sure to catch the uncut print if you can!!!

I really wanted to see this film, especially because my kids liked it years ago and I never saw it. Of course, it probably was okay then but it is far too simple to enjoy it now. It is not boring because there is something happening all the time but it is not interesting and really only the sex and violence stands out today. I still love the poster.

The film concerns about a team of astronauts assigned to save the outer space starship crew from a far planet . The astronauts become threatened by a weird , vicious life force as well as indiscreet , slimy aliens that embark upon a killing spree in the base and spaceship . They are unexpectedly devoured by hungry , vicious aliens intent on picking off the astronauts one by one . And an ominous monster in the form of a giant worm ; it is , in fact , a carnivorous , ominous maggot and is enormously spooky when the large slug eats a beautiful nude scream girl or when another young woman explodes . The picture contains an interesting twist at the ending.

It's a formula terror space film with tension , shocks , grisly horror , including some decent scares , graphic gore abounds and results to be quite entertaining . A lot of the special effects shots involving live actors combined with matte paintings and miniatures were done in camera . At the movie appears known actors with a future long career : The recently deceased Edward Albert (Butterflies are free) , Robert Englund (Freddie Kruger) , Zalman King (a notorious director of erotic films) , Ray Walston (famed comedy actor) and Grace Zabriskie (famous secondary actress) and Sid Haig (usual as baddie and blaxploitation genre) , the latter asked Roger Corman if he could play Quuhod as a near mute instead Corman agreed and let Haig portray Quuhod with almost no dialogue as Haig only says a single line in the whole movie . The visual production design by subsequently successful James Cameron creates a vivid sense of claustrophobic doom , enhanced further by the eerie musical score .

This disturbing and dark film was produced by Roger Corman with his New Word Pictures and tensely directed by B.Clark who managed to create shocks , generous violence and exciting horror sequences . According to Roger Corman , the film was budgeted at approximately $700,000 . The film went into production in the spring of 1981 at the Hammond Lumber Co. lot in Venice, CA, where New World's studio facilities were located. Additional sets , including the surface of the planet and the exterior of the pyramid , were built at a soon-to-be demolished Bekins Storage facility . David DeCoteau got his first Hollywood movie job working as a production assistant on this film , he was only 18 years old at the time. And followed by ¨Forbidden world¨ by Allan Holzman with Jesse Vint and Scott Paulin . It's a standard terror graphically gory, giving a paranoid dimension and turns out to be an ¨Alien¨ exploitation film , being a sloppy attempt to cash on this hit smash.

I recently came across the Robert Englund and Sid Haig cult classic Galaxy of Terror (1981) on MAX. The story follows a spaceship crew that stumbles upon a vessel with a missing crew. As they investigate, hoping to find survivors, they instead encounter alien creatures that begin picking off the members of their own ship one by one.

The film also stars Erin Moran (Happy Days), Ray Walston (The Stand), and Edward Albert (Power Rangers), and is directed by Bruce Clark (Ski Bum and The Hammer).

It's clear that Galaxy of Terror was aiming to capitalize on the success of Alien, which had been released two years earlier. However, the special effects and action sequences here are far from the quality of Alien, and often come off as a bit cheesy. Despite being released in 1981, the film has more of a '70s sci-fi feel. Overall, it's an average to below-average entry in the sci-fi genre that might only appeal to diehard fans of Englund or Haig. I'd rate it a 5/10.

Who else than B-movie deity Roger Corman would provide inexperienced but enthusiast directors with the necessary budget to create the umpteenth "Alien" rip-off in a span of barely a couple of years? The market was pretty much congested with space-terror movies during the early 80's and even other countries began making them, like the UK ("Inseminoid") and of course Italy ("Contamination"). Did anyone really need another clone of Ridley Scott's masterpiece? And yet it looks like another wise investment for master Corman, as "Galaxy of Terror" is still a guilty pleasure of many horror fans and it's frequently mentioned as one of the more tolerable "Alien"-imitations ever made. Personally I'm not such a big fan, but can see why so many others are! This movie has quite some gory bits, gratuitous sleaze, a fantastic cast and – most of all – it requires absolutely NO brain activities! "Galaxy of Terror" is unpretentious and relaxing entertainment, but still it could have been a lot better. The opening and closing minutes are incredibly dumb and the movie tends to be tedious whenever there aren't any hideous monsters on display. Luckily the gutsy killings and eerie set designs (by no less than Bill Paxton!) compensate for a lot! A nine-headed expedition is send (at hyper speed) to the unexplored regions of space to find out what happened to a previously vanished spaceship and its crew. Bad idea, of course, because unknown galaxies usually is where big slimy monsters live! And, in the good tradition of the aforementioned "Alien", there's a spy on board of the ship and the female crew-members severely risk to get impregnated by horny extraterrestrial rapists. Robert Englund is pretty great in a somewhat heroic role, a couple of years prior to the start of his successful villain-role of Freddy Krueger in "Nightmare on Elm Street". Zalman King and Erin Moran are good too, but veteran-actor Sig Haig's role should have been bigger.

I can still remember watching this film in the wee hours of the morning at about 13 yrs old; I wanted decadent, late night cable programming, and this one delivered. Twenty years later, I still remember it for one scene: a giant maggot raping a woman. It was a completely gross, bizarre, yucky, surreal moment in cinema, but unlike anything I had ever seen. I still can't get over how weird it is and how something like that made it into a film. The rest of the film contains a few other bizarre scenes but beyond this, the film is really just a waste of time. However, the production design (James Cameron) for this film was actually pretty original and well done for the time/budget (the planet the crew is trapped on has a kind of strangely dim lighting and claustrophobic feeling).

I first saw this in the early 90s on a vhs n had a solid wtf reaction regarding the notorious rape scene of the buxom babe. Revisited it recently. The plot is basically a rip off of Alien but the film has some well known horror veterans, Sid Haig n Robert Englund. It also has erotic film director Zalman King. Inspite of the film being a Roger Corman production, it has some well done effects due to the involvement of a very early James Cameron. Cameron must be laughing at the thrusting movement of the giant worm.

When i saw the trailer for galaxy of terror i knew it was going to be good,as a roger Corman produced b-movie it is a wild ride.sort of like alien on a lower budget.it stars Eddie Albert Jr.zalman king,Sid haig, ray walston(my favorite martian)Robert englund(nightmare on elm street) Erin Moran(Joanie on TV's happy days)and grace zabriskie(twin peaks) its bizarre science fiction horror about a group of space travelers on a rescue mission encountering terrors of all sorts,a women is raped by a giant worm,now thats bizarre.James Cameron was involved in the production.critics bashed this and it was one of the movies on the DVD 50 worst movies of all time,sorry i don't agree.its the best of the alien rip offs.7 out of 10

Rescue spaceship manned by bickering group of specially-trained astronauts, and captained by a megalomaniac female with a spotty past history, lands on desolate planet to help out a comrade ship and become unwitting victims of their own worst fears manifested. James Cameron worked as the co-production designer and second unit director of this low-budget science-fiction crud from Roger Corman and New World Pictures, one that hopes to resemble "Alien" (but played at the wrong speed). An interesting cast including Grace Zabriskie, Robert Englund and Zalman King, find themselves at mercy of cut-rate special effects and ludicrous dialogue, although the sets and costumes are decent. Horror scenes emphasize torture...not to mention the sexual assault of a worm-hating blonde by way of a giant maggot. * from ****

This is a movie that a lot of us old time horror movie fans will love. You have got to love some of the films Roger Corman produced! This movie has just about all that I would love in a horror film. Disgusting slimy monsters, great sets, graphic gore, a creepy storyline, a great cast, and great atmosphere. For me, a lot of the crap coming out in today's theater can't compare to movies like this.

I am not sure whether this movie takes place in the distant future or in a far off galaxy, but, the story has to do with a space crew going to a planet to rescue another crew. When they get there it seems that the other crew is dead. Upon searching there grounds they discover an ancient pyramid. What they don't realize is this pyramid is an evil place causing there worst fears to come to life.

The cast includes Ray Walston (My Favorite Martian), Zalman King (Blue Sunshine), Robert England (A Nightmare on Elm St.), Grace Zabrinski (Servants of Twilight), Edward Albert (The Domino Principle), Erin Moran (Happy Days) and Sid Haig (The Devils Rejects). This is a great cast of (at the time) new and old faces.

The Special effects in the movie are excellent for a B film. If you have seen the awesome poster artwork for the movie then you should know what to expect! We get a giant maggot, a few demons, blood sucking pods, killer crystals, etc. And the gore effects were really well done. When I watched this I wasn't expecting it to be gory at all, but there are a few scenes that are rather surprising! This was such a fun movie. Unfortuantly the days of monster movies are over. Enjoy the great B classics! 9/10

Early eighties Roger Corman sci-fi flick featuring a cast of b-grade actors on a mission to a distant planet to investigate a dying signal from a doomed space vessel. Once they arrive on the planet they soon discover that the crew is no more and that a black pyramid draws them in mysteriously. The cast's worst nightmares are manifested into reality as they are picked off one by one. But by whom exactly? If you were stumped as to who it was might I interest you in some low-property tax swamp land.

I have never been much of a Corman fan but this is one of his most ambitious and entertaining films. The fact that this is considered one of the 50 worst films of all time is not only silly but calls into question the bad movie credentials of whomever listed Galaxy of Terror. Have you even seen War of the Robots? Any movie that dispatches Erin Moran by crushing her skull and features the Hentai-like mutant worm raping to death a very buxom Taaffe O'Connell deserves cult status damn you! This is my third Zalman King film reviewed on this site, through no fault of my own mind you, and his limited range as an actor leaves little wonder why he made the move to directing light porn. Edward Albert is not very engaging as the male lead Cabren while I hope Sid Haig was paid by his screen time rather his amount of dialogue. Robert Englund, Ray "I've been old for 1000 years" Walston and Grace Zabriskie, who was great in Twin Peaks, round out the cast. If you happen upon this movie give it a watch. It's sure to entertain.

Galaxy of Terrors is basically now known as the "Girl gets Raped by a Worm" movie. And that certainly fits the bill. Because this movie is entirely forgettable. Well, the scene where a guy karate chops off his own arm is pretty cool, but besides that, get ready for a completely average scifi/horror flick.

Story revolves around a rescue mission going terribly wrong when people mysteriously start dying off. That's it.

The story or idea behind the flick ain't bad. But with such crap writing and such carefree characters, it's just a lot of waiting around for the next death scene to occur. Thankfully the death scenes are kinda cool. But death scenes can't carry a movie. Just ask the Final Destination series.

For myself, this was a huge disappointment. I was expecting some great 80s crap. But it turned out just to be kinda crappy. No laughs, the rape scene wasn't very rapish (truthfully I don't even know how she died), not enough use of Haig, awful characters, and it took itself too serious. Which you would think would deliver a couple cheese chuckles. Nope, the flick was just a mediocre flick that didn't do anything particularly right. Well, I don't wanna be too mean. The atmosphere was thick and effective, and the make-up effects were alright. There, that's it.

Check it out if you enjoy bad SciFi/Horror, cause there is a following for this flick. But damn, those people must be easily entertained cause this flick was a stinkin bore.

As is the case with a slew of Roger Corman-produced films, this flick underwent several title changes -- Mindwarp: An Infinity in Terror, Planet of Horrors, Quest - before settling on the worst choice. When I picked it up, I actually thought it was an old '60s film, as the tape-cover aped some old-school EC sci-fi comics with the names `Ray Walston' and `Edward Albert.' I immediately assumed it was Eddie Albert of `Green Acres' fame, not his son, along with Walston, fighting space invaders in their plundering youth. I was wrong. very wrong. Instead, I got a rip-off of Alien (1979) with a heaping portion of David Hewitt's 1965 snooze-a-thon Wizard of Mars (aka Horrors of the Red Planet), though Walston is no John Carradine! Likewise, Galaxy of Terror is peppered with the `guard duty' slant from The Sentinel (1976) and the Jedi theme of the Star Wars films (seen here as `The Master'), as there's some sub-plot about a long line of guardians or protectors that make a rite-of-passage through the planet's funhouse. There may have even been a narrative of some sort surrounding 'symbolic salvation' at one point before all the gratuitous violence was jostled in! As is the case with Wizard of Mars, our astronauts land the Goodship Quest only to discover the remains of an ancient civilization replete with an ancient pyramid-like structure and horrible, horrible aliens (a giant sexually-charged mealworm, an arachnid, some self-propelling leeches, and an extra-terrestrial that looks like the masked assailant in George Romero's Season of the Witch). The cast is a mishmash of TV personalities, actors past their prime, a few Corman/New World regulars, and a few up-and-coming stars (a trend that arguably began with disaster films like Earthquake and Airport). Erin Moran of Happy Days is fairly good here as a telepathic `biosensor' (and fairly sexy too), as is pre-Freddy Krueger Robert Englund (perhaps the highlight of the film). Nevertheless, our cast is picked off one-by-one by an unknown force that preys on fear (personified in physical form). Most of the kills are pretty lame, and Taaffe O'Connell's big scene with the mealworm is ineffectual as well. Still, the crew is every bit as good as the one in Alien, though there's no Sigourney Weaver here (big difference). Unbelievably, this film helped launch the careers of Englund (who would have become a great actor had he not lapsed into Elm Street limbo) and James Cameron who was the production designer here (perhaps prepping him for Piranha II: The Spawning). Perhaps to Cameron's credit (I guess), the Martian landscape is convincing and the sets and visual effects are great, even if it steals sets from other films (Corman's Forbidden World). Plus, it has a few scenes of cool stop-motion photography (now a thing of the past) courtesy Brian Chin. On the bad side, it's too dimly lit (though the water-slide caverns and Tron-like wall of lights are well captured) and has inappropriate music (which you didn't get in Alien). Lastly, the characters have great names like Cabren, Alluma, Kore, Ilvar, Baelon, Quuhod. It's too bad this film didn't take off and spawn licensing deals, as this crew would have made great space-soldier action-figures, as their back-packs already look like Cobra Commander accessories! All in all, a operative film, albeit not the best I've ever seen.

GALAXY OF TERROR (Originally called MIND WARP) was a cheap Roger Corman Film that had some "name-talent" and some good shock scenes, but nothing more really. One of the more "decent" ALIEN rip offs, GALAXY starts as out as a rescue mission sent to a remote planet to investigate the disappearance of another space crew. The acting is 3rd rate to say the least but the production design (done by TITANIC's James Cameron, in an early film chore)is one of this movie's saving graces. There are some gory scenes (mutilations, bodies exploding, heads being crushed, etc.) and even some kinky ones (the infamous "worm rape" of a sexy crew member). The story deals basically with man's inner fears and what could happen if those fears could materialize and become deadly. What if you could control those fears? I have to admit that the premise and the idea behind this movie are quite interesting, but are poorly executed on the screen. Under a more skillful director, GALAXY OF TERROR might have been a worthy ALIEN contender. In the end, it's just a nice, above average, early 80's gore flick (and I have a soft spot for these!), but nothing a current day gore fan couldn't take.

OH DEAR OH DEAR OH DEAR!!! I have seen bad movies, and some *really* bad movies, but this rather dated looking thing tops my list of 'worst movies ever'! This one *has* to be dubbed 'To Insult the Intelligence of All Who Dare Watcheth!'

Un original but vaguely interesting 'imagined fears comes true' plot line. Amusingly cheesy puppet-operated monsters looked more fake than paper mache animals made by an art class of talented 10 year olds. So-called gory effects were cheap and forgettable. Acting talent by the cast was non existent.

The whole thing was riddled with gaping holes and cliches. And, in some desperate attempt to wake up the (now) sleeping audience who have been subjected to one Alien rip off scene after another... check out the giant maggot raping and sliming and killing the blonde chick. Jaw dropped with disbelief at this completely stupid and repulsive scene!

CONCLUSION? Maggots? NO! Caterpillars? NOOOO!!! Slugs? Get them away from me!!! Avoid this movie if you savior your sanity....

Watching "Galaxy of Terror" is like enduring eighty-one minutes of being socked in the stomach. From beginning to end, every single incoherent scene in this mess of a motion picture has no other purpose than to make you retch, or wonder just what the filmmakers were trying to put in place of a plot. This is one of the most pointlessly gruesome and unpleasant movies I have ever seen. It has some decent special effects and some good cinematography, but this just makes the experience of watching it even more dreadful. Because instead of being corny and gruesome, it looks authentic and gruesome. Again, with no purpose other than to make you want to hurl.

Produced by Roger Corman and directed by Bruce D. Clark, "Galaxy of Terror" borrows elements from many science-fiction sagas before it, most notable Ridley Scott's "Alien" from 1979. A rescue ship composed of a much of stick figure individuals crash-land on a mysterious planet and find themselves subjected to treachery and a plethora of hideously grotesque deaths at the hands (or claws) of various space creatures. The plot, what little there is of one, thickens in the third act and results in one of the most dumbfounding, stupid and shockingly bad resolutions in movie history.

I stated in my first paragraph that the movie has some good special effects and it looks authentically gruesome. But this works to its disadvantage. This is, at heart, a B-movie thriller. It's meant to be a cornball thriller. The jumps and scares and horror moments are meant to be silly and laughable. So by making them realistic and visually gruesome, it gives the movie a very morbid, schizophrenic personality, as if it has no idea what the heck it's supposed to be. If a movie is to take itself so seriously and go for some true scares, like "Alien," then it must be cemented and held up by something other than that.

"Galaxy of Terror" isn't.

For nearly an hour and a half, viewers must watch people being crushed, ripped to spreads, torn limb from limb, chewed up, stripped naked and literally raped by giant worms, and - did you stop to read again? Having seen "Galaxy of Terror" myself, I can tell you that the infamous rape scene involving Taaffe O'Connell and a monstrous rubber worm with a keg-shaped sex organ is one hundred percent true and it is one of the most pointlessly unpleasant scenes I've ever seen in my life. It has absolutely no purpose, even less purpose than the brutal scenes in the rest of the movie, and the most shocking thing was that it was a last-minute change to the script. Why? My only guess is that the filmmakers had started to lose confidence in even their own flick and wanted to find some way to stimulate the lecherous members of the audience and keep them interested. Maybe they figured we all have a little bit of the stereotypical "dirty old man in the raincoat" in us.

I think I've communicated quite adamantly why I despised and loathed "Galaxy of Terror." It is nothing more than a big, bloody, stupid, pointless mess. And funny as it sounds, I would have preferred the production values to be laughably cheap and horrendous because then I could have laughed at maybe a few of these. Or at least I would have become bored. "Galaxy of Terror" does hold interest, but only because it is constantly making you want to dash toward the bathroom. And by the time it's pseudo-surrealistic resolution clocks in, it leaves us desperate for a break.

This is a real treat of a film in many ways.

Firstly it doesn't hold back on monsters. There are many and all are effectively creepy.

Secondly its sets are sublime. They really are. It's a "no stone left unturned" film.

Thirdly it is well acted, especially Robert England, and the script isn't bad at all.

Fourthly its plot is very good. Yes ALIEN was on Corman's mind but the film is so far away from ALIEN. It's not a by-the-numbers monster movie really.

Yes it's very gory, and is trash- but it's really well polished trash and deserves a lot more than a simple "it's an ALIEN clone" because to my mind it's not that at all. Through all the schlock and exploitation it has a tone that feels very 1950's or 60's. If you took out one particularly lurid scene and toned down the gore, it could easily come across as a big budget 1960's sci-fi horror film. It could also be seen as an exploitation -loaded star trek spin off.

The Blu-ray release is to die for by the way. The restoration is beautiful.

A rescue mission is sent down on a creepy planet to find out what happened to a previous crew. One by one they are killed off but by who...and why.

Grade Z "Alien" redo. This DOES pour on the gore--heads are ripped open; people are sucked dry of blood; arms are cut off; people are burnt alive; people are squeezed so tight they burst and (in the most notorious sequence) a woman is stripped and then raped by a giant worm! Despite all this violence and gore this is surprisingly boring. The special effects range--some are effective, others are hysterically bad. The plot makes little sense, the same sets are used again and again and the dialogue is terrible. The acting varies wildly. Some people are great--Grace Zabriskie, Robert Englund (pre-Freddy Krueger) and Sid Haig especially. Others are terrible--Erin Moran (from "Happy Days"), Zalman King and Ray Walston are just embarrassing to watch. Everybody else is OK. You might want to tune in for the graphic (and pretty sickening) gore but everything else is pretty poor in all departments. This has a following...but that's just for the gore. I give this a 1 all the way. Seriously--is seeing a young beautiful blonde getting raped by a giant worm YOUR idea of entertainment??

A spacecraft travels to a distant planet to rescue the crew of another space ship that has crashed. The craft has damages in the landing and needs to be repaired. Baelon (Zalman King) commands the rescue team formed by his rival Cabren (Edward Albert), Alluma (Erin Moran), Dameia (Taaffe O'Connell), Quuhod (Sid Haig) and the rookie Cos (Jack Blessing). While looking for survivors from the former expedition, Cos is murdered and they do not find any survivor. However they cannot depart from the planet due to an electromagnetic field. Commander Ilvar (Bernard Behrens) joins the team to search for the cause of the interference in the spacecraft. Captain Trantor (Grace Zabriskie) stays in the craft with the technician Ranger (Robert Englund) and the cook Kore (Ray Walston) but soon one by one of the rescue team members is killed in weird situations, created by the materialization of their own fears.

"Galaxy of Terror" is a great sci-fi B movie with a story with good premise, although having many clichés of the genre. The menaces of the planet are nothing but the fruit of the imagination of each person, projecting their inner fear. Further, this movie has probably one of the most erotic scenes I have ever seen. Dameia, the character played by the sexy Taaffe O'Connell, has a great fear of maggots, being a kind of "worm-phobic" person. When she meets the huge maggot, she starts screaming for help, while the creature with many legs rips her clothes off and rapes her. Her naked body is covered and lubricated by slime, and her initial panic becomes into a very intense multiple orgasms. Other good attractions are the names of James Cameron (as unit director in the bottom of the credits), the later soft porn director Zalman King ('Wild Orchid') and Robert "Freddy Krueger" Englund in the cast. My vote is six.

Title (Brazil): "Galáxia do Terror" ("Galaxy of Terror")

Note: On 18 October 2014, I saw this movie again. Note: On 18 March 2018 , I saw this film again on DVD.

The crew members of the Quest (Edward Albert, Erin Moran, Ray Walston, Robert Englund, Zalman King, Taffee O'Connell, Grace Zabriskie, Sid Haig, Bernard Behrens and Jack Blessing) are sent to a rescue mission on the barren planet Morganthus hoping to find the missing crew members of a previous mission. But their innermost fears on that planet comes alive to attack on their weakness. They must come face to face with their darkest fears or they will die.

Directed by Bruce D. Clark (Hammer, Naked Angels, The Ski Bum) made an entertaining, trashy, science-fiction horror film in the wake of "Alien". But the premise tries to do something different, the movie actually has something to say about fear. Produced by Roger Corman (Bloody Mama, The Intruder, The Little Shop of Horrors), he produced this movie on a budget of $700,000! Although the movie seemed to cost more than that. Imaginative designed by Three-Time Oscar Winner:James Cameron (Terminator 1 & 2, Avatar, True Lies) and Two-Time Oscar-Winner:Robert Skotak (Aliens, House on Haunted Hill "Remake", Titanic). Which oddly enough, the look of the movie does look like "James Cameron's Aliens" at times!

The Blu-ray has an sharp if occasionally grainy 1080P anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1) transfer and an good PCM 2.0 mono sound. The Blu-ray also includes an informative and humorous commentary track by David DeCoteau, Robert Skotak, Alec Gillis and Taaffe O'Connell. The Blu-ray also includes an entertaining documentary of the movie with the new interviews by the cast & filmmakers, Photo Gallery and more.

"Galaxy of Terror" is occasionally silly and flawed in places but it is entertaining and the movie doesn't waste time to get the thrills. The film is infamous for the giant maggot-rape sequence! Also the picture could have used some fleshing out for the characters, especially the supporting characters like Walston and Zabriskie. As a fan of B Movies, this is worth checking out. (****/*****).

Most video stores should have a special section titled "Movies That Suck." This sorry "Alien"-ripoff belongs in that particular category. This pile of alien excrement has everything that you'd expect from a cheesy sci-fi movie: bad acting, cheap and repulsive special effects, and lousy script. It even has an obligatory rape scene between a blond chick and a caterpillar-like(?) creature. Yuck, yuck, yuck. If there's ever a movie that James Cameron ("The Terminator," and "Titanic") would like to forget that he contributed to, it would most likely be this one. Erin Moran had no business starring in this trash. My evaluation: (no stars).