Alien Intruder (1993)

Space traveling convicts become the victims of their own fantasies when virtual reality is made to go wrong.

Director:

Ricardo Jacques Gale

Writer:

Nick Stone

Stars:

Maxwell Caulfield, Tracy Scoggins, Billy Dee Williams

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Maxwell Caulfield	...	Nick
Tracy Scoggins	...	Ariel
Billy Dee Williams	...	Cmdr. Skyler
Gary Roberts	...	Lloyd
Richard Cody	...	D.J.
Stephen Davies	...	Peter
Jeff Conaway	...	Borman
Michael Delano	...	Capt. Loring
Shano Palovich	...	Warden O'Neil
Charles Young	...	Frank
Rod Britt	...	Leo
Milton James	...	Capt. Lubert
Joe Durrenberger	...	Marlon (Android body guard for Commander Skyler)
Gwen Somers	...	Annie
Melinda Armstrong	...	Tammy

Storyline

Space traveling convicts become the victims of their own fantasies when virtual reality is made to go wrong.

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Plot Keywords:

virtual reality | outer space | psychotronic | b movie | cult film | 

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Genres:

Sci-Fi

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

24 February 1993 (USA)

Also Known As:

2022 terreur dans l'espace

Company Credits

Production Co:

PM Entertainment Group

Technical Specs

Runtime:

120 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Quotes

[Ariel, a man-eating alien, seduces another victim]
Ariel: Tell me you don't like nasty.

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Connections

Spoofs Casablanca (1942)

User Reviews

Sector-G Spot

Billy Dee Williams gets all morose in space while his band of recruited convicts hook themselves up to virtual reality machines that play out their fantasies. Why are they heading to the mysterious G-Sector? To see what happened to another ship that went out there. What happened to the other ship? Well, some sort of alien took the form of a female and everyone went crazy and killed each trying to win her affections. We see this happen in the first five minutes of the film, and then the film decides to take things nice and easy, which will test the patience of most folks.

Billy Dee's recruits/victims agree to leave the comforts of jail and head off into the unknown due to a machine where they can live out their dreams. They do this every weekend after working on the ship, each with their own little worlds. The demolitions guy lives in the wild west as cowboy, the computer geek is a fifties biker, the other guy lives in a black and white Casablanca world, and our hero shows no imagination whatsoever as he just goes surfing with a chick. Strange, though, that the same mysterious woman has showed up in each of their fantasies, and why is Billy Dee spending all his time staring at a picture of the same woman? And why have a cyborg in the film when he's just going to stand around doing nothing? And one other thing - if you had a virtual reality machine that acted out your fantasies, would you waste it by surfing or driving about on a bike? Or would you be sandwiched between two Czech BBWs? I think that's the option any sane person would pick.

Now, I thought, with the introduction of these separate realities, that I'd have something similar to Waxwork 2 on my hands, but I was wrong. Once the evil alien woman thing (or Ariel, as she's known) 'kills' all the convicts virtual women, we just end up back in space where they find the other ship and end up bickering and running around corridors like a million other films. Maybe it was the budget or something that stopped them from going full throttle with the virtual reality thing, but to spend so much time on it just to have the film settle into the usual conventions seems like a waste of time.

Additionally, the woman playing the alien seductress is noticeably less attractive than any other actress in the film, so I wasn't quite getting why everyone was so bowled over by her. This was a tepid PM production and while it was pretty rubbish, the cheesy effects and infrequent nudity at least kept me from hating it.