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| Roddy McDowall | ... | Dr. Henry Lazarus | |
| Alex Hyde-White | ... | Jedidiah Pickett | |
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Melanie Shatner | ... | Catherine Harding |
| Don Stroud | ... | Louis | |
| Rodger Halston | ... | Wyatt | |
| Emile Levisetti | ... | Brill | |
| Richard Biggs | ... | Hawkes | |
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Sha-Ri Pendleton | ... | Fife |
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Miro Polo | ... | Russian Officer |
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Crew of an undersea mining platform falls prey to mysterious and dangerous parasite. The parasite has the ability to affect people's minds, so survivors can't be certain who is safe and who is infected. Written by Dragan Antulov <dragan.antulov@altbbs.fido.hr>
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british scientist | scientist | tentacle | burned by a flame thrower | flame thrower |Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
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The password to activate the self-destruct device on the undersea platform is shown on the screen to be "Nostromo". Nostromo was also the name of the interstellar mining ship from the original Alien (1979) movie; a movie from which The Alien Within borrows heavily. See more »Goofs
In the second to last scene with the flamethrowers there is a shot of a fire extinguisher putting out the flaming stuntman on the ground in the middle of shots of the standing stuntman being sprayed by the flamethrowers. See more »Connections
Referenced in Doomed: The Untold Story of Roger Corman's the Fantastic Four (2015) See more »Frequently Asked Questions
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