Bad Movie Club: Creature

1985 Alien rip-off

Rating: 7/20 (Libby: 5/20; Josh: 8/20; Carrie: 5/20; Fred: 4/20;  Johnny: no rating; Jeremy: no rating; Jonathan: Not sure he made it to the end of his first Bad Movie Club movie)

Plot: Space travelers head over to a planet where a German spaceship had some issues and run into the titular alien and Klaus Kinski. They argue over which one is more dangerous.

This was a boring bad movie, but I knew Kinski was in it and was therefore on the edge of my seat until his first appearance. He doesn't disappoint, seemingly speaking lines that he'd memorized in English phonetically, over-enunciating and over-acting in ways that added to the weirdness of his pervy, somewhat-unhinged character. Of course, if you were the lone survivor of your space mission and had nothing to do but try your best to not use up all the oxygen, you'd probably get a little weird, too. Other than a little gratuitous nipplage, the sort of nudity where you just know filmmaker William Malone figured that his movie was a little dull and needed to put something on the screen worth watching, there's not much to see here. The "creature," when you finally get to see him, looks pretty ridiculous, like a sticky puppet, and although the spaceship interior sets and the landscapes outside the planet aren't embarrassing, the whole movie has this single tone that makes it a little flat. A weird ending and a complete disregard for science might annoy halfway intelligent viewers. This is one for Klaus Kinski completists only.