Creature

1985 "It's been sleeping peacefully on a moon of Saturn for 2000 centuries ... until now!"
4.4| 1h37m| R| en
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A crew of scientists arrives on a far, cold planet to examine archaic artifacts of unknown origin. They discover that their German enemies already have a ship there. When they seek their help after a failed landing, they only find the Germans’ bodies, obviously slaughtered by one of the archaic creatures, awoken to new life. Now the alien is after them.

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Laikals The greatest movie ever made..!
Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.
FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.
Ava-Grace Willis Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.
mpescajeda A real piece of crap. I remember finally reaching my breaking point while trying to endure a multiplex viewing of this abomination. One of the things I was sorry to see in it was Klaus Kinski wasting his time, but after reading his IMDb bio, I understand now. Enough was enough, and I walked out into the lobby and politely as possible asked an usher if I could slip into the theater next door to watch Beverly Hills Cop instead. Thank God she said yes.
Leofwine_draca Despite being an adequate low-budget ALIEN rip-off which at least offers a nifty pacing and plenty of grue for your buck, TITAN FIND doesn't have much to recommend it at first glance. Firstly is the no-name American cast of never-were actors and actresses and the bad sign that a front cover-billed Klaus Kinski only appears for fifteen minutes or so. Secondly, the low budget, resulting in often enthusiastic but cheesy special effects. Thirdly, the openly derivative nature of the script and story, which throws two spaceships into the plot (one German, one American) instead of one, but which still goes through the same old motions and even employs some movie references before its time (THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD gets name-checked AND ripped-off, which must be some kind of achievement).Somehow, TITAN FIND still proves to be a fairly enjoyable venture, if nothing particularly special or memorable. As mentioned previously, the pacing is fast and the story light, and with a wealth of low-budget action to keep things sliding along nicely. The film does attempt to build some atmosphere, with lots of suspenseful stalking through dark corridors and dry-iced landscapes, which works on occasion. And although the special effects are cheap, they are at least plentiful and sometimes extraordinarily gooey, incorporating all manner of mangled cadavers, splattering blood, and a surprisingly graphic head explosion into the action. Also included are a slimy man-in-a-suit who plays the chief creature (again totally ripped off ALIEN in appearance) and some slimy space slugs which attack themselves to the brains of the dead and can use them as zombies.The cast does well with the script (at least those who have developed characters and who are not just easy cannon fodder) and some of the performances are surprisingly charismatic. Klaus Kinski is always good for entertainment value and this later role provides him with a mad German scientist, who gets to babble on about aliens whilst grinning inanely and molesting female crew members - a case of art reflecting life, perhaps, for the notoriously perverted actor? It's just a shame the he doesn't get more screen time. The film stops and starts with a series of mini-climaxes before the credits finally roll, climaxes which include an ultra-cheesy and hilarious "electrocution" special effect for the alien, and an amusing race-against-the-bomb-timer finale. Although the film is often too dark for its own good, thankfully this doesn't prove much of a hindrance. Fun and cheesy if you're in a forgiving mood.
SnoopyStyle The universe is divided between competing corporations Richter Dynamics (W Germany) and NTI (USA). An NTI expedition uncovers an alien egg on Saturn's moon Titan. A survivor rams and destroys spacestation Concorde orbiting Earth's moon. NTI ship Shenandoah crashes upon landing on Titan. They find their German rivals dead with Hofner (Klaus Kinski) the sole survivor. The dead are being controlled by parasites from the creature.This is a lower level Alien movie with a splash of The Thing. The problem is that everything is obviously reminiscent of Alien and strictly at a lower level. It starts at the beginning with the extremely cheesy dialog exchange with the two guys and the alien egg. It's so cheesy that it's funny. The sets are recycled. There are some perfectly good actors working here but they don't get anything good to work with. The melty blood-gushing faces are fun old-style FX but again, it's a funny thing more than a scary thing. The creature is a poor cousin to the Alien, even the first Alien. It's all inferior but not quite campy enough to be funny.
oscar-35 *Spoiler/plot- Creature, 1985. Two competing mining companies are fighting to get to Titan, a moon of Jupiter. The German crew arrives and finds evidence of an ancient dead civilization along with several egg-like containers. The German crew is lost and an American crew lands in the same area on Titan. The American crew finds a disaster, only to get involved in why the previous crew was all murdered without a trace.*Special Stars- Wendy Schaal, Stan Ivar, Klaus Kinski.*Theme- If your intuition tells you to be careful, you should be.*Trivia/location/goofs- Elements ripped off from previous film or genres: Alien-plot, Forbidden Planet- sets and sound effects (due to the director's prop collection). 2001-spacesuits, Japanese space movies- planetary and orbiting spacecraft file footage. In a poisonous atmosphere why are there spider Webs all over the alien spacecraft? Titan spiders? *Emotion- I was not a big fan of Alien, but it was a well produced and entertaining film. Gore and blood can't save this film. This film was an attempt to cash-in on it's popularity for only $750,000 in production costs. It shows; the actors are wooden, the film has none of the pacing, drama or tension of this genre. This film only made back $40,000 and is a Dollar DVD. With all of the sequels from Alien and all the better knock-off films, this film is a total waste of time and attention for the viewer.