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You know the line from the Alien posters... In space, no one can hear you scream.

Well, this ship can. And it likes it.

This is one of my all-time favorite science fiction/horror movies in space.

I saw it when it released in the cinema, and as I walked out, somewhat dazed, I decided immediately to buy another ticket, then went back in and sat down for another viewing.

Sure, a couple of the lines were a bit on the cheesy side, but only a couple. The acting and effects were spectacular, the environments were creepy as hell, and some of the visuals will stick with you.

There's some gore in it, so be ready for that. If that bothers you.

Lawrence Fishburne, Sam Neil, and a bunch of other actors you'll recognize lead a rescue mission, after a distress beacon is received from a research vessel that disappeared years before out near the planet Neptune. It was considered at the time of its disappearance to be the worst disaster in the history of space travel at that point.

The ship, using an experimental form of travel, has gone beyond the boundaries of our known universe. Maybe to hell itself. And it came back alive.

The premise may sound laughable, but this is space horror done right.(Think Amityville Horror meets Hellraiser in space) Give it a chance, if you've somehow missed this one. Turn out the lights and get your popcorn ready. You won't be getting up until it's over.

Give it a shot. I thought it was good.

It's a bit reminiscent of Scream, but probably only because it's a slasher flick featuring teens in high school.

Aside from that, the cast were all good actors, the script was good, and the story was believable.

What more can you ask for these days? Is it 100% original? Nothing is. The best we can hope for is for the story to be done in some way that is different and sets it apart from the rest.

I only knocked off a couple of points because the ending just seemed to me to be easy, and a bit too tightly wrapped up. It was just over. But that's just my humble opinion.

All things have to end, and sometimes the ending isn't long and drawn out and super suspenseful, I guess.

All said, it had some tense scenes, some humor, and kept me interested. Better than a lot of the stuff that's been coming out lately.

Bottom line: Ignore the far-right, anti-woke reviews from idiots who use terms like SJW. They're going to hate on anything that comes out these days, because they can't stand to see LGBTQ+ (which I don't think this movie focused or harped on in any way. There just happened to be a couple of gay people in it. Like real life. Go figure. No big deal, unless you're a bigot.) or they hate anything with a strong woman character, because they're misogynists who hate anything where a woman isn't barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen not speaking her mind. (another area which wasn't focused on or preached about in this movie. But the main character was a woman, so...) Still, they cry "Woke propaganda, OMG." Just don't listen to them and watch it for yourselves.

I thought this felt a little 70s/80s-ish. The acting, camera work, and everything else was pretty bad. I actually saw the trade towers in NYC at one point and this came out in 2018.

But then little made sense about this movie. Even the scenes in this supposed horror anthology. And that, in itself, makes complete sense once you find out that this isn't actually an original film. Rather, it's a collection of scenes from a bunch of 70s/80s movies, spliced in between very short -assumed to actually be- original scenes, with campy title cards. I'm not even sure that's legal, but who would even WANT to do this?

Every story, or "dose" in this anthology, by the way, has gratuitous nudity or sex scenes with lots of nudity. Every. Single. One. I'm no prude, but after the third one, it gets kind of ridiculous. I'm thinking, oh, someone's taking their clothes off again. Is this porn? It's as though some perv just jumbled together the naked scenes from his 70s/80s fap collection, added a few little scenes of his own and some title cards, and tried to call it something else. Again, is this legal? Some of them didn't even resemble horror.

I'd rate it zero, but then I couldn't leave this glowing review. Because 0 wasn't an option. Anyway, I'd suggest leaving this one off your list. Unless, of course, horror is NOT what you're looking for. Or you're actually looking for a mix tape of bizarre 70s/80s soft core. Not judging. Maybe it would get better reviews if it were labeled "Doses of bizzare 70s/80s softcore." But then I guess that doesn't quite have the same ring to it.