This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

Good movie but grossly overrated

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Good Fun Movie. Good Kills. Decent Plot. Not an Alien copy. Good Cinematography and Set Design.This is not an Alien clone. Alien sucks. I watched it last year and was incredibly disappointed. Check out the acting, character motivation, smoking on a spaceship - stupid. The best part of Alien was in the extra footage. I hate that movie. Only similarity this movie has with Alien is that it's a sf space movie with monsters. Big deal.Good camera work. Good kills. Decent acting, not great. Plot is OK, not great. A stupid fun movie. Not bad.Good Fun Movie. Good Kills. Decent Plot. Not an Alien copy. Good Cinematography and Set Design.This is not an Alien clone. Alien sucks. I watched it last year and was incredibly disappointed. Check out the acting, character motivation, smoking on a spaceship - stupid. The best part of Alien was in the extra footage. I hate that movie. Only similarity this movie has with Alien is that it's a sf space movie with monsters. Big deal.Good camera work. Good kills. Decent acting, not great. Plot is OK, not great. A stupid fun movie. Not bad.

I can't remember whether I rented this with friends or saw it on HBO late at night ... probably both, but either way I remember scrunching my lips at the thing and wondering why it was made.Correction; I didn't wonder why it was made, but why the people who made it didn't invest a few more dollars into the thing, or at least put a more serious effort forward. At the time horror films were the big rage (an idiotic genre to begin with), and someone, somewhere, decided that marrying horror with Star Wars would be a great idea and money maker.The problem with that is that money, time, effort and craftsmanship went into the making of Star Wars. Someone who had a story to tell, who was interested in social psychology, the myths created by mankind, history, and updating the old Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers' properties, made Star Wars. I of course speak of George Lucas. And the people who made "Galaxy of Terror" are no George Lucas.Here's the thing, for a scifi film it's not all that convincing. From a story point not all of the characters' plots are completed. From a "horror" perspective it isn't even scary nor suspenseful. And, in retrospect, knowing what I do about the horror genre, I can see why this marriage of genres was doomed for a bitter divorce.Horror relies on superstition. Fear. Science fiction is about using technology, science, or some kind of ability to overcome adversaries. One is steeped in religious and tribal fears, the other is about embracing knowledge for victory (or examine how science and technology have gone wrong). I mean there are a few films that successfully mix the two, "Alien" being one of them, but "Galaxy of Terror" is not one.Another "Let's make Star Wars meets movie-X" film that was made by people who only understand marketing data.Avoid.

Until the release of the DVD, this was an almost mysterious film, much remarked upon and controversial, but seldom seen, until it received its DVD release from Shout Factory. Story has a spaceship crew being sent on a rescue mission after receiving an S.O.S., only to discover a weird, fog shrouded planet where there lies a vast pyramid, and after they enter, things really start to happen...Film has good production values(for its budget) and a memorable atmosphere and set design(James Cameron worked on this!) It also has some big ideas at work, but it is a shame that it comes in such a violent and exploitive film as this. Infamous scene involving a female crewman and a worm is still disturbing, though it should be remembered in what form the crewmen are being tested.It's a short film, almost too short, since it barely gives you an introductory sequence before it heads off into space. Not much character development either, but film isn't that bad...but with more restraint, it could have been a great deal better.

OK he was the Production Designer... but his name was top of the credits at the end of the film. This is a low budget Roger Corman film who brought us a lot of other cheesy movies that I personally like to watch. To no surprise many of the actors who get started in Roger Corman films go on to bigger and better parts. For example; Jack Nicholson in his 1963 production of "The Raven". In Galaxy of Terror we have a cast of virtual unknowns like; Robert Englund and Zalman King. There are some other familiar faces in this movie such as; Ray Walston, Erin Moran, and Sid Haig. The acting is crap, it is a poorly done remake of several sci-fi plots, and the special effects are mediocre. But that is what this movie has going for it, from the perspective that it is something to laugh at and poke fun. I laughed at Cos, "panicky guy role" played by Jack Blessing. For a bunch of tough space rescue team, they all seemed to scream a lot. All the movie monsters in this one are laughable, but just because this is a inferior and shoddy sci-fi/horror movie doesn't mean it should be viewed by children. Dameia played by Taaffe O'Connell, by far, had the best tasteless death scene in the whole movie. Just as bad as Ellen Sandweiss death scene in "The Evil Dead", when she was raped by the woods... not in the woods, by the woods.Good for a MST3K party, get some friends over and rent or view it on Netflix this month.