Creature (1985)

★ 4.6 1h 37m 118 votes IMDb

Horror Sci-Fi

A crew of scientists arrives on a far, cold planet to examine archaic artifacts of unknown origin. They discover that their German enemies already have a ship there. When they seek their help after a failed landing, they only find the Germans’ bodies, obviously slaughtered by one of the archaic creatures, awoken to new life. Now the alien is after them.

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Stan Ivar as Mike Davison Age 83 · Brooklyn, New York, USA

Wendy Schaal as Beth Sladen Age 71 · Chicago, Illinois, USA Wendy Schaal (born July 2, 1954) is an American actress and voice actress, perhaps best known as the voice of Francine Smith on the television show American Dad!. Born in Chicago, Illinois, she is th...

Lyman Ward as David Perkins Age 84 · Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada Lyman Ward (born June 21, 1941) is a Canadian actor best known for his roles in Creature (1984), Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), and Milk and Honey (1988)..

Klaus Kinski as Hans Rudy Hofner Died 1991 Nikolaus Karl Günther Nakszyński, best known as Klaus Kinski (18 October 1926 – 23 November 1991), was a German actor. He appeared in over 130 films, and is perhaps best-remembered as a leading role a...

Annette McCarthy as Dr. Wendy H. Oliver Died 2023 · USA Annette McCarthy (April 12, 1958 - January 6, 2023) was an American film, television and stage actress, musician, sound producer, and later chef. She was an actress, known for Twin Peaks (1990), Bayw...

Marie Laurin as Susan Delambre Quebec City, Quebec, Canada

Director William Malone

Cast Stan Ivar, Wendy Schaal, Lyman Ward, Klaus Kinski, Annette McCarthy, Marie Laurin, Robert Jaffe, Diane Salinger, John Stinson, Buckley Norris

Rocketeer Raccoon 6/10 Mar 04, 2017

I notice that various people criticising the film for blatantly copying Alien but I say so what, for what it was I thought it was alright, I was never bored of the film and it did have an interesting plot. The film did make me laugh with how the doors sound in the film, the doors sounds like blaster firing from Star Wars so I thought that was definitely funny in a good way.

However I did find two problems with this film, the first problem I found was that the Alien creature was very under-used, it didn't really appear much until the final act of the film so that was a wasted opportunity. The second problem is that the story and some scenes were a bit ropey, and there's some things I find a bit baffling in it but not to the point of being obnoxious.

Even though people have discarded this film just because it's a low budget Alien clone but I say give it a chance because it's really not that bad.

GenerationofSwine 6/10 Jan 10, 2023

Yeah it's an Alien rip off and the monster isn't as good.

But there are a few things that it actually did better, as far as the characters went.

The big lacking is the, well... Ripley made the Alien movies and you didn't have someone like her to stand out, you had neither a strong male nor a strong female lead... you didn't have any strong leads at all, and that.

Wendy Schaal did a respectable job for the intended intelligent scream queen, but given it's an alien rip off you didn't want her to be a scream queen, you wanted her to be bad@$$. And, for a standard horror movie scream queen she did a great job... just you didn't want that in a movie like this after Alien set the standard.

It was Klaus Kinski that stole the show and, unfortunately, they didn't let it ride on his back. He could have carried it if they gave him a longer role. He was fun to watch.

But ultimately it fails for weakness in characters and no real worthy lead.

But it was still entertaining, so 10 stars because... movies are made to entertain.