Bruce Is Back In Space

Bruce Willis and Frank Grillo star in the new epic sci-fi adventure set in the year 2524, four hundred years after humans started colonizing the outer planets.

Retired Military General James Ford (Willis) is called back into service after soldiers on a remote planet are attacked by a hostile alien fleet.

The threat against the human race escalates into an inevitable interstellar war. General Ford teams up with

General Eron Ryle (Grillo) and a team of elite soldiers in a race to stop the imminent attack before it is too late.

Not to be mistaken for Breach (although easily done as that was written by the co-writer of this), Cosmic Sin is due for a digital release on March 12.

Seemingly a bit too pulpy to fit with the Aliens oeuvre, and obviously the timeline doesn't fit at all, I share this trailer mainly for its seeming overlap with Breach (including the vague Asylum 'mockbuster' vibes).

"Yippee-ki-yay, Alien Monster!"

 

Fleeing a devastating plague on Earth, an interstellar ark comes under attack from a new threat; a shape-shifting alien force intent on slaughtering what is left of humanity.

On the cusp of fatherhood, a junior mechanic aboard an interstellar ark to New Earth must outwit a malevolent cosmic terror intent on using the spaceship as a weapon.

I don't know if it's the colour palette in use, the lens flares, or the CGI-looking backgrounds (even if they're practical), but there's a whiff of an Asylum mockbuster about Breach that I can't believe it truly warrants.  

Formerly known as Anti-Life, the film, starring Bruce Willis and Thomas Jane, is scheduled for release in the States, in cinemas and on digital, on December 18.

It Almost Sounds Like It's Alien: Covenant, But Isn't Really

The Asylum continues to roll out product using its winning, mockbuster, formula.

Yet while Alien Convergence sounds a bit like Ridley Scott's latest addition to the Alien franchise, the trailer for The Asylum's latest makes it look more like another Independence Day cash-in!

This instant classic will be available, in the States, on VOD on June 1 and then on DVD on June 27.

Galaxy Of Terror (1981)

Recommended to me by my good mate Paul, Galaxy Of Terror is a slightly bonkers, early '80s Alien-wannabe, produced by the legendary Roger Corman and resplendent in that "they're making this up as they go along" feeling that he always brings to his movies.

In an alien galaxy, there is a world ruled by a glowing-headed dictator known as The Master (a very natty special effect, it must be said, and a character that has nothing to do with Doctor Who), who hand picks a miss-matched team of astronauts to embark on a rescue mission to the desolate planet Morganthus - where an earlier ship has crashed.

The rescue team boasts a host of well-known performers: Erin Moran (Joanie from Joanie Loves Chachi and Happy Days), Robert Englund (Nightmare On Elm Street, V etc,) David Lynch-stalwart Grace Zabriskie, horror-movie veteran Sid Haig and familiar TV faces Ray Walston and Bernard Behrens.

Throw in some rubbery monsters and an unpleasant assault by a giant rape-maggot that ranks with the original Evil Dead's animated tree as just plain wrong, and it's no wonder this has become a cult classic.

To be fair it quite quickly shakes off its Alien aspirations as it heads more into pseudo-psychological territory somewhere between Shakespeare and Space 1999.

For a low-budget schlockfest, Galaxy Of Terror has some very impressive visuals: as well as the storm-lashed surface of Morganthus we are treated to the sci-fi/Dungeons & Dragons delights of the massive, maze-like interior of a pyramidal structure the adventurers have to explore to turn off the energy beam that caused them to crash-land as well.

And if that isn't enough of an incentive to track this B-movie treasure down (as long as you can stomach the giant maggot scene and a squirm-worthy moment involving a shard of crystal sliding under someone's skin) there's the added bonus that the film is only 81 minutes long.