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Stan Ivar, Wendy Schaal, Lyman Ward, Robert Jaffe, Annette McCarthy ... see more see more... , Diane Salinger , Klaus Kinski , Marie Laurin , Jonathan David Moses , Buckley Norris , Eileen Seeley , John Stinson , Michael Griswold

Less than a year before James Cameron's turbo-charged sequel, Hollywood (or its overseas counterparts) still managed to find ways to retread the badly-worn theme of Ridley Scott's Alien, as evidenced ... read more read more...in this 1985 low-budget item. When a mysterious canister is uncovered on Saturn's largest moon Titan, a dormant, eons-old monster is released, making lunch of both the explorers who discovered it and the rival corporation's exploration team which investigates their disappearance. The most enjoyable "creature" in this otherwise pedestrian film is the ever-leering Klaus Kinski, who plays the lecherous sole survivor of the previous expedition, but the only real source of entertainment -- the depiction of gooey, gory effects and gratuitous nudity -- is spoiled by inadequate lighting and static camera set-ups. ~ Cavett Binion, Rovi

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R, 1 hr. 37 min.

Directed by: William Malone

Release Date: May 8, 1985

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DVD Release Date: October 3, 2000

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  • ajv2688
    December 27, 2011
    ajv2688
    This movie is a cross between The Thing From Another World and Alien. Actually, in a scene that made me laugh, a character suggests killing the alien in the way they did in The Thing. By the way, the actors are just so-so, Klaus Kinski is the only big name in the cast. The best t... read morehing about this movie was the special effects and make up, it's unfortunate they didn't have a great story to support them. Overall the movie is bad, but not it's not one of the worst sci-fi horror movies.
  • thefog1331
    June 11, 2007
    thefog1331
    Best of the 'Alien' clones.
  • Hellshocked
    November 30, 2009
    Hellshocked
    Klaus Kinski be blessed
  • fb25827189
    October 8, 2009
    fb25827189
    A cheap knock off of Ridley Scott's Alien, I couldn't get into it, despite trying very hard...
  • juliantoepfer
    December 29, 2011
    juliantoepfer
    I guess everyone was looking to cash in on 'Alien' in the early 80's. By being so bad, this film really showcases how great of a film 'Alien' is. It is certainly hilarious in its truly awful construction, acting, effects, and everything else. A seriously bad wanna-be in every sen... read morese of the term.
  • NichtHeute
    August 22, 2007
    NichtHeute
    Most reviews I've seen have called this a low-budget Alien rip-off and that's pretty much true; the "creature" in question even resembles the titular Alien.

    What does this have to recommend it that Alien doesn't?
    1. Brief female nudity, if you like that sort of thing.
    2. An ... read moreexploding head!
    3. The one and only Klaus Kinski as Hans Rudy Hofner. I give Creature an extra half-star for his presence alone, though I do wish he'd gotten more screen time.
    4. The darkly sexy security officer Bryce, who resembles Sean Young in Blade Runner (with wonderfully epic cheekbones) and who has a penchant for black leather, prescription drugs, and big guns. Hofner unsuccessfully tries to seduce her; the two of them were the most interesting characters in the movie and I frankly lost interest when they disappeared from the screen.

    Also features one of the dumbest Horror Movie Don'ts I've ever seen in the opening sequence: when two astronauts come across a pod with the creature inside, one of them wants to take a picture and demands the other stand next to it "for scale." He then demands the guy SIT ON TOP OF the pod when he "can't get them both in the frame." Yeah, like you couldn't just step a little further back or have him crouch next to it or something if "scale" is that important: the instant you hear him told to sit down on it, you know the creature is going to rip through his space pants and literally tear him a new asshole.
  • steve985
    July 26, 2007
    steve985
    Creature has to be one of the worst films I have ever seen (not THE worst, that is still held by the movie The Good Girl - I still shudder at the thought of that one). This movie came out a few years after Alien and to put it in a good way: it is a cheap knock off.

    The movie sta... read morerts out showing a space station in earth's orbit getting rammed by an out of control space ship. The model effects are so bad, I swear you can see the wires in some places.

    The main part of the movie follows the rescue team sent out who are trying to find out what happened to the space ship's crew. They go to Titan, a moon of Saturn, there they discover a lone alien creature that has the ability to turn its victims into zombie-like creatures, which it can control. It uses the "zombies" to lure the rest of the cast out into the open.

    The highlight of the movie is when the creature, for no real reason, bites the head off one of the luckless crew members. However, it does not do it in one bite. It takes a chunk out of each side of the woman's neck then the head falls off and bounces down the stairs. This could have been a very nice touch in a horror movie if it was not for the fact this movie had almost no budget. I could really believe that the special effects department for this movie had a budget of about 50 dollars at most.

    This is one to miss. I have to admit it is in my DVD collection but only for the reason it was pawned off on my by a former colleague who was giving away some of her less watched DVDs.
  • flynnparadox
    May 15, 2007
    flynnparadox
    Good and fun cheese! William Malone's Creature (originally titled Titan Find) is a wild and entertaining rip-off of Alien, The Thing and your typical 80s zombie flick. The story is crap but the filmmakers know that. The actors are cheesy but good. The effects are suspect but ... read moreambitious and suitably...goopy. The score is cool. Wendy Schaal is cute and cool, Diane Salinger is suitably badass, Klaus Kinski rules (as usual) and, I don't care what the dopes on imdb say, I thought Marie Laurin was awesome. She's sexy and gives a pretty darn good performance, especially in her two "femme fatale" scenes. If you like these kind of films (Forbidden World is another one), check it out.
  • Elainehaygood
    March 19, 2007
    Elainehaygood
    This puppy rocks-Just think about it, an alien creature that uses dead (or dang near dead) humans as decoys to lure more prey-scary

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Critic Reviews

Cole Smithey
February 23, 2008
Cole Smithey, ColeSmithey.com

Okay, the movie wouldn't be much without Kinski, but our German fiend makes up for it.

Scott Weinberg
April 2, 2005
Scott Weinberg, eFilmCritic.com

Chintzy and forgettable "Alien" retread.

Emanuel Levy
August 11, 2005
Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

No review available.

Michael Szymanski
April 27, 2003
Michael Szymanski, Zap2it.com

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Geoff Andrew
June 24, 2006
Geoff Andrew, Time Out

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