Here’s the choices given to the survivors of the spaceship Shenandoah, located on the Saturnian moon Titan:
- Try to salvage stuff from some unnamed alien ship, which just happens to be a charnel ship.
- Try to fix the Shenandoah, which is unfixable, and is about to become a charnel ship.
- Try to take an unnamed German ship off the surface and return home. BTW, this is a charnel ship.
And they thought it was part of a butterfly collection!
An unhappy choice for the survivors, a shrinking number, in the movie Creature (1985). The remains of a ship – I think – are found on Titan by the crew of a ship owned by the corporation NTI, and as the researchers / archaeologists / crew (again not sure) are in the midst of trying to document it, something comes popping out of one of the containers they’re puzzling over.
A few hours / days / months later, an unknown ship apparently piloted by one of the crew crashes into a manned satellite in orbit around Earth. Why? Uh, I’m not sure.
So now, of course, another ship, the Shenandoah, is sent by NTI to see what might be there. On getting there, they find a ship owned by their chief competitors, Richter Dynamics, or RD for short, is there. The commander of the mission, a corporate flack, orders an immediate landing over the objections of the Captain, with no research as to the best place to land, and moments after landing, Shenandoah bursts through the crust and the ship is effectively disabled.
Well, after this it gets messy, what with bodies hidden in cupboards (the monster is apparently related to squirrels), dead bodies springing to life, a German survivor who has a thing for the tall, silent security officer who hasn’t an effective weapon, and, well, a lot of screaming.
It was fairly awful.
If it sounds a little like the classic Alien (1979), I assure you this felt like a thin ripoff, from the plot to the persistent fog on the surface of the moon, even the landing reminded me of the Nostromo landing sequence.
But not nearly as good. Just like the rest of this movie. Don’t waste your time.
