Deep Space (1988)

My quick rating - 4.5/10. Maybe 30 years ago, this could have passed. The monster looks extremely hokey, even for that time. Fred Olen Ray is highly regarded for these types of flicks, and for very good reason. He loves the exploitative movies and still to this day is churning them out. At first, he was all about the horror and sci-fi schlock, but as that phase passed, he moved on to the "skinemax" type T&A flicks. Here we have a military-created killing machine? that crash-lands back to Earth and seeks to do what it was designed to do. Part of the fun is the sheer inept way that this tragic event is handled. There is no doubt in my mind that it was written that way to make fun of some specific events of the time. But leaving that agenda aside, the local police arrive to investigate the murder of a couple of teens who were the first to the crash site. Again, the government would not allow this to happen either, but how it is presented is sheer comic relief. Leading up to the investigation is the police legend, Charles Napier as McLemore. We know he is a legend since they make sure to point that out at the precinct. After the eggs that were on board begin to hatch, the mother? goes into a rage, and it is up to McLemore and his new sidekick Ann Turkel to catch up with the monster and attempt to eradicate it. Still all in good fun, just not enough to be that "so bad it is good" thing. It just kind of dwells in the bad area. Has some good laughs, though, which will at least make it viewable once for anyone interested in b-budget goodness.

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