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10 out of 10 people found the following review useful:
For fans of 1980s era low budget sci-fi & horror, 2 January 2006
Author:
Zhukov_2132 from Vancouver, BC, Canada
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I got this at 50% off in the bargain bin at my local electronic closing
sale. Unlike most commentators here (who seem to expect every sci-fi
movie to be a mass market blockbuster), I enjoyed it- even the ending.
It could have had more gore, but the gore scene special effects were
well done. It could have been shorter, too...a good candidate for
"Mystery Science Theater 3000" to do an episode on.
********SPOLIER BELOW--ONLY READ IF YOU'VE SEEN THIS MOVIE********
When engineer Roger Campbell is traveling thru the tunnel, what the
heck was that small, oily black creature with the white eyes and sharp
teeth that dropped on him? The movie never explains what it was.
9 out of 16 people found the following review useful:
Pretty good Sci-Fi/Horror, 4 August 1999
Author:
MovieMan-167 from Sunnyvale California
I rented this movie expecting it to pretty much be a waste of time. I liked the description on the back of the box so I thought what he heck. It turned out really, really good! A group of people set off in this space ship and encounter a strange life force, and of course they all start to get killed by it. Let me just say the the end is NOT what I was expecting! I was very pleased how this movie was done. Not bad special effects for the time either.
1 out of 1 people found the following review useful:
"Oh crap, the characters are all dead already!" "Don't worry, I have a way to pad this film.", 11 June 2010
Author:
Aaron1375 from Alabama
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I remember watching this one as a child and it was not exactly the most original movie starting out. Clearly one of the many "Alien" clones out there this one features the ship that takes on a crystal and said crystal spawns an alien. I shall call said creature star creature for the purposes of this review. Well star creature methodically kills the crew of this vessel and he does so very quickly with kills that are typical of low budget horror. We have the typical vent scenes, a lab death and things of that nature. Star creature seems nearly indestructible as plan after plan fails to stop this beast from killing the crew. Then we are down to the last two members of the crew and it is time for the final showdown, right? No, wrong! It is time for the people to become friends with star creature and make the first part of the film with all the death a distant memory as this alien becomes friendly. You get scenes of him and the last two survivors helping each other and having a fond farewell scene. Excuse me, star creature butchered the rest of the crew and now it is friendly? I mean it tries to explain that it was defending itself, but really now how much danger is a creature that is nearly indestructible really in, seriously? At least they did not have the last two remaining crew throw their arms around the thing at the end and go "we are going to miss you so much, star creature". Though I can see the female going "goodbye, though I still don't understand why you killed everyone" and the guy going "shut up, it is almost gone and we will finally not have to worry about that thing mutilating us if we happen to startle it". All in all a bad "Alien" rip off, that I will say got a bit original when the alien got friendly. Thankfully, in the "Alien" movies you never had scenes where Ripley had tea with the aliens in an effort to understand why they must shoot their offspring into the mouths of other living things to procreate.
3 out of 6 people found the following review useful:
Ultra Cheesy Sci-Fi That Has It's Moments, 8 June 2002
Author:
kefkajr (kefkajr007@aol.com) from Austin, Tx
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New World has given us an ALIEN-clone that has plenty of slime and blood
but
little else. Hey, it ain't the worst movie in the world though and it
entertains if you're in the right frame of mind. I thought the first
monster
attack was actually kind of scary and the narrow-tube corridors give a nice
edge.
SPOILER: As for that infamous ending, it wasn't all that bad but still
cheesy. Remember this one CHEESY movie. Could have been better with a few
more deaths.
0 out of 1 people found the following review useful:
great movie my friends love it., 29 February 2012
Author:
Liam wuthrich from Canada
i love the plot even if it was old kudos to everybody that made this
movie a hit because it was piloted after a video game i thought and the
music was perfect i also wonder if this movie try to compete with
silent running a old space movie similar to the pilot of battle star
galactic the near version win grace park and other continue the battle
star legacy with the name and Cammand training on all ships in space
and at sea on planet earth. anyway no i would never her a song from
Acadia or silent running but if they did a back to back of movie like
this i would be surprised at the station rating if they we spooled old
film and add it to TV maybe if it pass in rating maybe the government
would consider the copy-rite laws did deep into the vaults and maybe
play these movie because science has been explained a lot better by
different stars. and i think if these actors are still around because
there alders they should get a Oscar or Grammy or Juno award because
star crystal was good for it time but now it like other movies cant be
archived like music on any movie site even Bit Torrent Junky when it
starter up in the year in the year of 05 finishing in 2012 because the
company closed it door because they did not want a law sauté because
the copy-rite laws are new and most site no them cover to cover.
great movie and this movie's like star crystal will be missed forever.
0 out of 1 people found the following review useful:
Not bad, 20 July 2009
Author:
tawlite from United Kingdom
The first part of the movie was pretty dire, and the acting was really
awful,but it got better after most of the crew apart from 2 were
killed.
Some reviewers have commented that the movie is another cheap Alien rip
off but it isn't really. It does change direction from gooey killings
to ET type Alien but I thought that was a nice direction to go with the
movie. Some commentators have knocked the effects but I didn't really
notice them; most Sci Fi space films have pan views of the ships in
space and this was no different. The interior of the ship was adequate
and was OK for a mid 80s sci film. I didn't understand why there was no
walking decks as most of the ships access seemed to be through
claustrophobic tunnels.
You'll either hate it or be satisfied with it. It isn't a great movie
by any stretch of the imagination but it is more than watchable. When I
first put it on I fell asleep bored out of my head, but I gave it
another go and I am glad I did.
2 out of 5 people found the following review useful:
I can't believe I remember this trash!, 21 December 2004
Author:
Aussie Stud from Providence, Rhode Island
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I remember seeing this on video many years ago in the mid to late 80's.
There were some key scenes that stood out in my mind:
- Space explorers discover a rock on a planet. The rock has a crystal
in it that unleashes a deadly alien.
- The alien starts to kill everyone on board the space craft/space
station.
- People who encounter the alien or its gooey trail comment on a
"lemon"-like scent.
- A black man gets killed by the alien.
- One woman tries to get away from the creature by crawling through a
tube-like tunnel.
- The alien leaves its victims encased in a gooey substance.
- The alien is playing chess with the surviving male character.
Yes, you heard me right. The alien is playing some sort of board game
with the survivors! I couldn't believe my memory either. For the
longest time (15 years and counting), I always thought I had two movies
mixed up in my mind, confusing them as one.
Nope, it's all in the one flick. As stated by others above, this
creature becomes good at the end (even after killing all the other
people on board the space craft), and everyone goes home a happy
camper, I kid you not.
This outrageously bad movie ("STAR CRYSTAL") has to be seen to be
believed!
2 out of 5 people found the following review useful:
A great Sci-fi horror (not saying much), 4 December 2001
Author:
Joshua The Samurai from Ohio
Ah, the 80's...They brought us such wonders as Power Ballads and the Rubix
cube. However, one thing from the 80's didn't survive the changes between
decades, and that was SCi-fi horror (aliens not included).
Star Crystal seemed to start as a typical sci-fi, but quickly provided an
initial plot twist. Not to say the story was confusing, because it was
blatently obvious. In fact, the thin plot allowed you to take wagers on
who'd get hacked next. The bets were up on the second placer, but the house
appeared to win.
The cast of this movie was like a convention of people trying (and failing)
to get into movies. Not that the poorly written dialog could ever enable
them to lift off the pad.
While B-movie fans (such as myself) will enjoy the exceptionally bloody and
gooey deaths, and the bucketfuls of slime everywhere, the movie does lack
any kind of female scream (which is a necessity in B-movies).
The movie was a half decent horror flick until the morals took a severe 180
that nearly broke my neck. The change in the tide was the nail in the coffin
that ruined something that was nearly a waste of time to begin with.
Being a connoseur of B-movies, I recommend this for B-movie-athons. (an
excellent performance by someone named "The Gling")
3 out of 7 people found the following review useful:
The Scarecrow reviews "Star Crystal", 20 April 2006
Author:
Scarecrow-88 from United States
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Believe it or not, I actually enjoyed this obscure B-movie as a child. But, one sees a film differently with more astute eyes. The film seems outdone by everything all at once. The budget is perhaps(next to simply bad writing and overall story development)the main culprit in this film's demise. You can tell how things are elevated(you can tell a part is being picked up by a wire), not to mention in one shot you can actually see the rod that moves the model space ship. The cast for the film are simply not very good at exposing the trauma within the characters and the dialogue, which is sheet-thin and unimaginative doesn't assist them. The story seems to be two separate films..one horror and the other a weeper. This makes the film completely uneven. It starts as an alien clone as this creature and these crystals "birth" from a rock taken by two astronauts from Mars. They want to put a laser to it, but perish thanks to such thinking. As an act of survival, the alien defends by killing..basic fundamentals for defense against anything violent. Once it is on board a space shuttle, several crew members feel threatened and react with hostility against something they don't understand. Somehow, the alien starts out as goo and begins to shape and form over the course of the movie. Also, these crystals seem to provide the alien the basic fundamentals of learning and power. The alien, through the power of the crystals, is able to elevate and control anything. The crew are at the mercy of this alien as it kills three of them when they try to kill it(not to mention exploding a space station early in the film). Yet, once the alien begins to read, through the memory banks of the computer, the Bible, it comes to know Jesus and becomes much more understanding and kind to the two crew members that remain. The film is pretty preposterous for it just doesn't know where to go..it's as if we see the director is throwing all kinds of ideas at us expecting us to enjoy the botched narrative. It seems to be a real horror film, with some pretty good gore with goo and blood. Then comes a morality play which just seems to be an unfortunate detour which is just laughable. If you read through the credits on this film, it's clear that no one made it very far..the whole film is quite amateurish and bad. There does seem to be ambition, but ambition needs talent to fully evolve into a good movie for which this film lacks greatly.
1 out of 4 people found the following review useful:
Star Crystal......, 9 May 2003
Author:
(Frank_Stallone_Fan) from New Hampshire
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Spoilers..... The only thing i dont like about this move is he ending. I mean, instead of a horror movie, it turns into a family movie.. The other thing i didn't like actually was that terrible closing song. It hurt my ears.
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