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Galaxy of Terror
Why this pick
Like Forbidden World, it is scrappy Roger Corman space-horror: an isolated mission, lurid creature effects, claustrophobic sets, and a steadily dwindling crew.
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MOVIE1982 1h 17m USA
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Why this pick
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Inseminoid
Why this pick
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Xtro
Why this pick
For the same era-specific blend of alien menace, gooey practical transformations and gleefully disreputable science-fiction horror, Xtro is stranger and more surreal.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
In the distant future, at a genetic research station located on the remote desert planet of Xarbia, a research team has created an experimental lifeform they have designated "Subject 20". This lifeform was built out of the synthetic DNA strain, "Proto B", and was intended to stave off a galaxy-wide food crisis. However, Subject 20 mutates rapidly and uncontrollably and kills all of the laboratory subject animals before cocooning itself within an examination booth. After Subject 20 hatches from its cocoon, it begins killing the personnel at the station, starting with the lab tech charged with cleansing the subject lab of the dead animal test subjects.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Jesse Vint
Mike Colby
June Chadwick
Dr. Barbara Glaser
Linden Chiles
Dr. Gordon Hauser
Ray Oliver
Brian Beale
Scott Paulin
Earl Richards
Michael Bowen
Jimmy Swift