Saturday, July 9, 2011

Film Review: Raped by a Giant Maggot in Outer Space in Galaxy of Terror

There was no way around reviewing Galaxy of Terror based on the films I've been reviewing and discussing in reviews lately- Inseminoid, Xtro, Forbidden World a.k.a Mutant, Humanoids from the Deep, Breeders, The Beast Within…all within the same general period and with other inter-connections. Inseminoid, The Beast Within, Xtro, and Humanoids from the Deep all have the dubious distinction of having plots involving the rape and impregnation of women by monsters. The women that gets raped by a monster in this film- a giant maggot- is lucky enough not to conceive, but close enough. Forbidden World, Humanoids from the Deep, and Galaxy of Terror share a producer- one Roger Corman, whose been at the b-movie game since the days of black and white. It appears the "hyperspace" special effects from Galaxy of Terror were re-used for Forbidden World the year after. That all safely places Galaxy of Terror in the category of low budget 80's horror shock cinema. If you've seen those films, you might be able to guess and guess correctly that the soundtrack to this film is an early drum machine beat with three notes on an early synth. You just can't have a rape by an inhuman monster without the three notes on the early synth.
The plot is that this "planet master" with a glowing head orders these personality-less characters that are on this space mission to rescue the crew of a spaceship that crashed on a planet somewhere. The crew of the first space ship is of course dead, and they find a gigantic pyramid.
Please don't pay money for this movie, it is on YouTube.
The crew is attacked by aliens in the pyramid and it seems to be that each character is confronted by their own greatest fear. Yeah, that's when they have the scene where the chicks gets raped by the giant maggot. The women who gets raped by the maggot doesn't look like she's being raped though, it looks like she's kind of into it, which might be one reason the film is infamous. After that scene though I do sort of watch the clock and wait for the movie to end. I guess its kind of cool that the one guys greatest fear is himself. The idea is that the characters are all actually destroying themselves, that the pyramid is actually a toy for aliens from a dead race. The ending doesn't really make that much sense.
Come to think of it, Galaxy of Terror may not even have the drum machine, just the three nots on the early synth.

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