If you watch him during big group shots, he’s the only one bothering to act as the rest more often than not sit with blank expressions until it’s time for their closeup. As you may expect, he’s the best actor of the bunch, and it’s great to see him putting effort into it. The other notable character is a scientist played by the great Bryan Cranston, long before his career skyrocketed by Malcolm In The Middle and then of course Breaking Bad. There IS a robot in this one though, but it’s not evil if anything it’s the most likable character, and I was delighted to see Tinpan’s unexplained return at the end after seemingly being killed around the end of the second act.

At one point she’s fighting a miniature baby monster while Singer tackles the real one, and they can’t even let her accomplish this much Singer finishes his fight and then runs over to kill the baby too. They don’t even bother creating a strong female character the female lead hilariously stammers and all but drools over hero Marc Singer the instant they meet, and spends most of the climax screaming instead of fighting. To be fair, it’s not as blatant as the other film they only restage a few of the obvious scenes (chest-bursting), and there aren’t any obvious replacement characters. If me of all people can’t get through a 71 minute movie in one sitting, then you know there’s a problem.Īs with Terror, Dead Space is a ripoff of Alien, but it’s also a loose remake of Corman’s earlier Alien knockoff Forbidden World (which I have yet to see). Hell I actually had to take a break from it around the halfway mark. Dead Space, on the other hand (which was on the same disc) offered next to nothing, boring me to tears after 20 minutes and never getting much better, and despite only running 71 minutes (!), it felt at least twice that long. Yesterday's The Terror Within may not have been a very good movie, but at least it moved along, had a couple of minor memorable bits, and never felt longer than its 85 minute running time.

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