Monster of the Day #674

Updated on April 15, 2013 By Ken Begg 17 Comments

Well, there must be some ham around here somewhere.

We had site issues last Friday; hence the delayed ending to Alien Rip-Off Week(s). Here’s a run down:

#665 Terror Within
#667 Biohazard
#668 Creature
#669 Forbidden World
#670 Split Second
#671 Deep Space
#672 Galaxy of Terror
#673 Syngenor / Scared to Death

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  • Flangepart

    Looks like ‘gooey egg thingy’ week, gang.
    Hummm…I was gonna say GAPPA, but the egg effect is too well lit and photographed.

  • Ken_Begg

    Nope, just the end of Alien rip-offs. This would have been up last Friday barring the aforementioned trouble.

  • SteveWD

    I’d rather watch any movie in that list before I sit through ‘Prometheus’ again. Finally saw it a few days ago and felt exactly the same way as when I watched ‘Crystal Skull’. I just need to give up hope for prequels/sequels/whatevers of beloved movies living up to any good expectations. Sorry…..just needed to vent a little.

  • Ericb

    Do you remember a tv movie called “The Intruder Within”. It was an early 80s Alien ripoff that took place on an oil rig. Thursday’s monster reminded me of it.

  • Ken_Begg

    I looked for a still from that, but I couldn’t find any. The movie might have been lit so darkly that a good still from it wasn’t possible.

    I actually downloaded that from YouTube last week, so I’m hoping to take another look at it soon. I watched it was it was originally on, but remember very little about it.

  • bgbear_rogerh

    Looks like something from James Lileks’ “Gallery of Regrettable Food”

  • Ericb

    I wish they could have just left well enough alone. The beginning of Alien had a nice Lovecraftian vibe and they just ruined it by trying to spell everything out trading Lovecraft for the X-Files. blah.

  • Gamera977

    Yes, just add a perky looking housewife and some paisley.

  • Gamera977

    This week on ‘Bizarre Foods’ with Andrew Zimmern we find out the Durian is actually an alien pod sent to Earth to consume all life…

  • Ken_Begg

    Worst…Chopped…basket…ever.

  • Flangepart

    Hummm…still, ALIEN EGG THINGY’S might be an interesting series. Why, Toho alone could count for at lest three of ’em.

  • The Rev.

    Ahh, so 671 was Deep Space. An early Fred Olen Ray movie I haven’t seen, like Biohazard. 670 is Split Second, which I’ve read about but not seen; I didn’t realize its monster was so Alien-esque in the face.

    So, is Galaxy of Terror another title for Forbidden World? After some research due to my confusion last week, it looks like those two shots (669 and 672) are from the same movie that I know as FW. The movie I know as Galaxy of Terror is the one with Sid Haig, Robert Englund, Ray Walston, Zalman King, Edward Albert and Erin Moran. I suppose most people know it as “the movie where the woman is raped by a giant worm.” It has a lot of things, but an Alien-esque monster isn’t one of them.

  • The Rev.

    Incidentally, you could almost do a week with Galaxy of Terror. You might have to include evil Robert Englund as a monster for that, though.

    And for anyone not aware, this is Luigi Cozzi’s Contamination. These pods are clearly based on Alien; the monster that created them, thankfully, is quite unique.

  • Wasn’t there a semi-ALIEN-ish being inside the complex? Near the main control section, or whatever that big dome was?

    Talk about a good cast gone to waste!

  • zombiewhacker

    Funny you guys mentioned it. I picked up The Intruder Within on VHS for 25 cents the other day but haven’t watched it yet.

    It was pretty horrible from what I originally recall, FWIW.

  • zombiewhacker

    IIRC correctly, this movie had a great pulsating score by Goblin, didn’t it?

  • The Rev.

    I honestly don’t remember such a beastie in that movie. If I had it handily available I’d watch it again and see.