The 9 Best Worst Alien Rip-Offs!
by TsarStepan | created - 17 May 2017 | updated - 30 Oct 2017 | PublicAccording to The Nerdist (2013) podcast network's own, Dan Casey*, these nine movies are the best of the worst Alien (1979) rip-offs.
Which of the following best deserves the Rifftrax or Mystery Science Theater 3000 (2017) treatment?
Let's discuss which of these horrible rip-offs deserve to comically shredded over here!
*Source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=659RU-rwOLg
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1. Contamination (1980)
R | 95 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A former astronaut helps a government agent and a police detective track the source of mysterious alien pod spores, filled with lethal flesh-dissolving acid, to a South American coffee plantation controlled by alien pod clones.
Director: Luigi Cozzi | Stars: Ian McCulloch, Louise Marleau, Marino Masé, Siegfried Rauch
Votes: 5,295
AKA Alien Contamination
2. DeepStar Six (1989)
R | 99 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
A team of navy personnel stationed at a temporary base at the bottom of the ocean and tasked with setting up nuclear missiles discovers a huge underwater cavern which houses a giant prehistoric creature.
Director: Sean S. Cunningham | Stars: Greg Evigan, Nancy Everhard, Taurean Blacque, Miguel Ferrer
Votes: 13,227 | Gross: $8.14M
3. Inseminoid (1981)
R | 93 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A crew of interplanetary archaeologists is threatened when an alien creature impregnates one of their members, causing her to turn homicidal and murder them one by one.
Director: Norman J. Warren | Stars: Robin Clarke, Jennifer Ashley, Stephanie Beacham, Steven Grives
Votes: 4,310
AKA Inseminoid
4. Galaxy of Terror (1981)
R | 81 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
A ragtag spaceship crew sent on a rescue mission encounter a formidable enemy, their worst fears projected by their own imaginations.
Director: Bruce D. Clark | Stars: Edward Albert, Erin Moran, Ray Walston, Bernard Behrens
Votes: 8,886
5. Parasite (1982)
R | 85 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
In a post-apocalyptic USA, a doctor/scientist infected with a new strain of parasite ends up in a small desert town, trying to find a cure.
Director: Charles Band | Stars: Robert Glaudini, Demi Moore, Luca Bercovici, James Davidson
Votes: 3,069 | Gross: $7.00M
6. Forbidden World (1982)
R | 77 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
In the distant future, a federation marshal arrives at a research lab on a remote planet where a genetic experiment has gotten loose and begins feeding on the dwindling scientific group.
Director: Allan Holzman | Stars: Don Olivera, Jesse Vint, June Chadwick, Linden Chiles
Votes: 6,294
7. Creature (1985)
R | 95 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
After a member of a geological research team who was sent to Saturn's largest moon: Titan crashes their spacecraft into a space station, another team is sent to Titan to investigate, not knowing the terror that awaits them.
Director: William Malone | Stars: Stan Ivar, Wendy Schaal, Lyman Ward, Robert Jaffe
Votes: 4,683 | Gross: $4.78M
8. Lily C.A.T. (1987 Video)
TV-14 | 67 min | Animation, Action, Horror
The expendable crew of a corporate space vessel must stop a murderous shape-shifting alien organism that somehow got on board.
Director: Hisayuki Toriumi | Stars: Hiroyuki Okita, Masako Katsuki, Osamu Saka, Chikao Ôtsuka
Votes: 1,207
9. Roots Search (1986 Video)
Not Rated | 45 min | Animation, Horror, Mystery
A research crew in deep space discovers a desolate ship that warps into their area, they encounter the commander and sole survivor of the ship incapacitated, the research team will soon discover that they have found something far worse.
Director: Hisashi Sugai | Stars: Keiko Han, Ken'yû Horiuchi, Kaneto Shiozawa, Osamu Kobayashi
Votes: 133
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