Low budget science fiction comedy, that beyond its cult status, can be enjoyed as a weird plotwise prequel to 'Alien'.

boring

Carpenter's first. Pretty decent. Very original. Shows what you can do with a shoestring.

I love the last few minutes.

surprising (and awesome!) seeing a gazillion reviews for this! I always think of the confessional thingie that the cast gets more and more wigged out on throughout the film. I also identified with that big, menacing ball thingie in the elevator shaft.

69.750

"This first from Carpenter is a definite cult classic - a sci-fi boasting a miniscule budget about a space-ship crew out on a mission to destroy unstable planets."

Shot on the cheap and in the spare time of the collected cast and crew, the film is jubilantly amateurish as it simultaneously spoofs and pays loving homage to the science fiction genre. It's not exactly something that can be called good, but it%u2019s surely enthusiastic, coming across as a scrappy precursor to any number of YouTube mini-epics made by people who love movies so much that they too want to point a camera and yell, "Action!"

What I learned from this movie: Even a grizzly beard cannot save you from a self-aware detonation algorithm.

great trashy comedy

What a surprisingly awesome sci-fi marvel.

It's like a buttermilk biscuit that has been left out in the dry air for so long that it has petrified. So deadpan, so much the "anti-2001" (or to contemporary audiences perhaps, the anti-Star Wars) that it's positively sadistic. I respect what it's doing, but it's not exactly preferable to staring at a blank wall for the same amount of time.

a great introduction to carpenter, yet the budget fails the effects and the experience is a failure to carpenter's later works. it's a good premise, and the writing isn't too bad, but the budget really fails this movie. it could have done much better with a smaller scope.

I don't know what the hell to think here. The low budget really shows, and the film has some serious issues even beyond that. On the other hand there are moments so absurd that I couldn't help but find them interesting.

Dopey, and zero-budget, but there's something about this movie that's thoroughly endearing

Lots of B-movie ponts. This is a comedy! You need to be on certain mood to like it.

Campy, cheesy, and hilariously low-budget, this film more than makes up for its shortcomings with a heaping helping of wit and intelligence.

A really fun film which seems to be able to tell an entertaining story with no real plot.

My all time fav sci fi movie!! Wait til you see the alien! One of the BEST special effects I've ever seen!

Low budget and amateurish but I love it! More creative and clever than most sci-fi films, and I liked the ending ripped from Ray Bradbury's KALEIDOSCOPE. The beach ball alien with Gillman hands is awesome.

HOLY SHIT I'VE SEEN THIS FILM. THIS IS SUCH A PIECE OF SHIT, THAT IT IS IN FACT THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER. WATCH THIS, BUT ONLY IF YOU HAVE THE BALLS TO STAY TIL THE VERY END!

Amusing film.

Made for about $60,000 over a period of year's this is a fantastic comedy about a bunch of Astronauts FAR more unstable than the planets their supposed to be blowing up. The work gone into the film gives the impression of a film ten times it's actual budget. O'Bannon would later write Alien and I think farscape too, but I'll have to look into that

Some day people will read this review, and then they'll be sorry!

This movie is just a cult movie, have fun with guessing which part of the starhsip was which kitchen equipment. :D