Jul 22, 2023
Galaxy of Terror (1981)
"Aren't you afraid?"
"Too scared to be."
#galaxy of terror#american cinema#sci fi film#1981#bruce d. clark#marc siegler#edward albert#erin moran#ray walston#bernard behrens#zalman king#robert englund#taaffe o'connell#sid haig#grace zabriskie#jack blessing#mary ellen o'neill#kenny myers#barry schrader#roger corman#perhaps most notable for the future big names who worked on this in various capacities; you've got a pre Freddie Rob Englund in the cast as#well as soon to be director Zalman‚ youve got James Cameron doing 2nd unit stuff and production design‚ Bill Paxton was the set dresser (!)#future oscar winner Bob Skotak doing visual fx and Wes Craven's future wife and film producer Iya Lubunka making prosthetics and possibly#(depending on who you believe) body doubling for one of the more graphic scenes of uh.. hm. well it's a.. you gotta see it ig‚ but it's#pretty tasteless and gratuitous. anyway. Corman himself was responsible for adding the more extreme sequences against the directors wishes#(a familiar story‚ see also Humanoids from the Deep) but all griping aside i was surprised by how into this i was. the first act in#particular does a brilliant job of quick‚ intense world building and setting up various intriguing mysteries for the viewer#the middle section fumbles it a little‚ but the design is deeply impressive and clearly something Cameron carried into Aliens#like im not even joking‚ this nonsense space slasher clearly had an unlikely impact on space horror cinema that came after#including Event Horizon and the Alien sequels‚ perhaps even a tiny but on Carpenter's The Thing. or maybe it's all coincidence. who knows!
