Bad Movie Monday: Galaxy of Terror

BMM is back with a vengeance. I give you the 1981 sci-fi thriller Galaxy of Terror. The movie stars Ray "My Favorite Martian" Walston, Erin "Joni from Happy Days" Moran (but no Chachi), and Robert "Freddy Krueger" Englund.

This Alien rip off was banned in Iceland. I'm not entirely sure why, but I think it has something to do with a scene that shows a woman getting raped by a giant worm. That scene will haunt me for years to come.

Our story follows a ragtag bunch of space travellers that are on a mission to find out what happened to a missing ship and its crew. They find themselves on a strange planet that is inhabited with ghastly monsters. The crew is killed off one by one. Some are killed by snakes, some by worms, and some by demon-like monsters. It is your typical horror flick at this point and I'm sure you know the rest.

Highlights: Snakes that devour a man sound like Scooby Doo eating a sandwich; Ray Walston is the devil or some kind of space devil; The similarities to Alien are pathetic; Sid Haig is in it; Joni's head gets crushed; Robert Englund delivers the best reaction to a dead body in cinema history; When a dead body is found the crew doesn't investigate much, they simply light the body on fire with a flamethrower; The Captain of the ship is lowered into a deep hole using bungee cords. He is bait for the snake creatures below.