It's economic filmmaking at its best by trusting the actors to do their jobs while making every penny count.Īs much as Creature is a ripoff of Alien, it smartly spins new elements with the material introducing a zombie-like mind-control element that keeps things extra creepy and tense. The diabolical critter often looks better in shadows so there’s an extra effort to keep the rather large intromittent organ-shaped head obscured in near-total darkness. If things are getting slow, there’s some random nudity and or gore to speed things up again. The air supply is limited so there are long stretches without dialog. The power supply is limited, so they can’t have any lights on. The film uses every trope in the low-budget sci-fi book. Wide establishing shots are virtually non-existent with the cast in tight focus in creepy and dark locations. When their ship is disabled, the film tightens up. Early effects shots give you a nice sense of size and scope of the Shenendoah and its arrival to Titan - complete with ripped-off Star Wars sound effects - as the crew lands on the moon.
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Malone knew what the movie was and understood the extent of his limited resources and stretched his cast, crew, and effects budget as far as it could go without breaking. It’s well known that Creature was a hit-for-hire job for writer/director William Malone with the specific goal of essentially ripping off Alien, but all credit to the filmmaker for not doing a cheap carbon copy and making something that’s genuinely pretty damn good. The story goes as 20th Century Fox just got the wheels turning for a sequel to their hit sci-fi horror film and a rival studio did what any other studio would do and churn out a rushed to theater knock-off to profit off the hype.
When you see one phallically-appendaged creature and then you see another phallically-appendaged creature - they gotta be the same well-adorned beast, right? Well, my childish confusion was apparently intended.
You’ll have to forget the 5-year-old me that saw this on television, but for a long time, I actually thought this movie was a sequel to Alien. After waiting thousands of centuries, one Creature has gotten loose - and is very hungry. What they find is a sight beyond belief - an ancient alien-built research facility containing specimens from across the galaxy. Now the crew of the Shenandoah has been dispatched to Titan to investigate.
Two months later the team’s ship crashes into Earth’s orbiting space station. A research team on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, goes missing while responding to a mysterious beacon.
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