Is This the Greatest Alien Rip-Off Ever Made?
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- There were a lot of Alien ripoffs made back in the 1980s, and today's is arguably one of the best of the bunch. It's got a Wish.com Xenomorph, Klaus Kinski being Klaus Kinski (in other words....awesome) and Ferris Bueller's Dad! Join me as we cover William Malone's Creature aka Titan Find on today's episode of Sick Flicks!
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Hey Mike Can You Cover Dr. Giggles (1992) I Have This On My Playlist On TUBI Right Now And Man It's Scary Funny And Cat People (1982) That Movie Was Scary As Fuck.
Did you hear about the Miami Mall Alien incident? Supposedly tall shadow like aliens
appeared out of a portal in a Miami Mall to the dismay and horror of holiday shoppers
who ran out of it in fear for their lives. As the many shoppers were fleeing in terror from
the giant aliens they could be heard asking 'does anyone know where we can find the
Men's Warehouse store?' There's a sale on men's big and tall clothes we came to check
out. The police were called to the scene but it turns out the three giant shadow aliens
were lesser known basket ball players from the Miami Heat. No charges were filed and
and the investigation is closed. Ahahahahahaha No aliens here.
How about Mutant, 1984
@@casanovafrankenstein8538That movie also has the alternate title of "Night Shadows". That was a good movie about monsters that were mutated leech-like creatures created from exposure to chemical waste. But the ending was a bit off. Not only was it too abrupt, but it made it seem like there was only a little bit of mutants when there was a whole town filled with them. 🤷♂️
You don't need a monster if Kinski is in your movie. He's scary enough.
For real...
Don't hate - Klaus was born to be Great!
@@brucetungsten5714a great creep
Absolutely. If Klaus Kinski grabbed me from behind, I'd scream like Dollar Tree Ripley too.
He's a great actor,but, he is scary looking 😮😮😮😮😮
"Never turn your back on Klaus Kinski."
This will be on Herzog's tombstone.
Seeing as how Klaus tried to strangle herzog, that's good advice.
Everyone’s talking about Kinski and I’m still trying to recover from the incredible melting man.
Awesome! This was a movie we rented often in Junior High school. Movies like this, some cardboard pizzas, and Nintendo were staples of our weekends. And using Air Supply to score with the chicks.
Christ, I'm old, too.
You had to get a movie with good jump scares so she'd jump right into your lap.
Kinski is the real Alien threat to this movie 😊😊
Klaus Kinski is one of those people that were born to play the villain, but he was also a great actor!
He was as great an actor as he was a terrible person.
Yeah, I can see him in the new Mr. Rogers movie.
Something I definitely miss. When VHS was so ubiquitous that grocery stores had a selection. Late night, movies you’ve never heard of, seen everything else, give it a shot.
Once you’re in, you’re in. See movies like this that are surprisingly good and wouldn’t have watched otherwise.
Heck, my convenience store rented them too...it was a wild time. I miss it like crazy.
There was something special with kinski in the movies he was in. Maybe because he was really crazy in real life, BOY WAS HE!! RIP KLAUS.
He makes anything he's in more interesting just by being on screen -- that's for sure. I miss that dude.
Nobody even remotely like him.
@@gregevans6044 I like Kinski
This and Lifeforce are my comfort horror movies.❤
Fun Fact: Diane Salinger also starred with Rubens in Batman Returns, as the Cobblepot parents. Tim Burton directed both.
The crew: Oh s***, it's a monster!
The monster: Oh s***, it's Klaus Kinski!
100% agree about practical effects vs. CGI (one of my favorite things about "Ghost Story" is the Norman Rockwell-esque matte paintings and the feeling that you're inside a snow globe).
Thumbs up for 'ovipositor' - making RUclips smarter, one video at a time!
Have always loved this one since seeing it in the late 80s on a crappy rental VHS. So nice to finally have a nice release of it. Also, Sladen is played by Wendy Schaal who voices Francine on American Dad.
She plays fun characters.
Yep - maybe this film made her start to hate Klaus.
“Our Alien rip-off movie failed to win any awards, you know what that means, right?”
“We work harder next time to make a better film?”
“No! We make a bunch of rip-offs of the movie that won; Gremlins!!
And that's how we got ghoulies and hobgoblins.
Watched this years ago one time and never could remember the title or much about it. Watching this and seeing Ferris Buhlers dad is what triggered my memory 😂. Awesome job as always. Thanks Mike!
You know, even though he's been dead for more than 30 years, I'm always a bit scared of a Klaus Kinski attack. He's sort of like quicksand or rope bridges, just something that, when I was a kid, I thought I'd have to deal with a lot more as an adult.
You only have to really be afraid if you're either Werner Herzog or Natassja Kinski.
@@AliceBowie
His daughter Pola claimed he did the same to her. Klaus admitted assaulting Nastassja.
@@CorbCorbinhe’s a genuinely scary guy.
@CorbCorbin In his book "All I Need Is Love", which was withdrawn from publication, he claimed natassja seduced him. Back in the day, she said she never even was around him much at all, but I don't know. He claimed to have slept with millions of women. He was nuts for real, a diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic. He used to scream at the mirror in his bathroom for like hours everyday for months on end. Good actor, but I think Herzog had a weird obsession that made him think kinski was more of a genius than he really was.
don't worry he may not be under your bed 😳😲😯😵💫
I thought ALL of the Alien rip offs would have been covered by now! Ridly Scott must be an easy-going guy!
The strange thing is he doesn't like sci fi movie's but he has made afue of them go figure 🤷🏼♂️
Creature is one of my favorite 80s sci-fi flicks. It's so well done given the low budget!
Hell yeah!
It's about as terrifying a movie as you'd expect seeing as it stars Ferris Buellers dad 🤣
Was hoping someone would mention this 🤣
This, Forbidden World aka Mutant, Galaxy of Terror, and Dark Side of the Moon were my childhood. Love me some cheesy Alien ripoffs!
(To the tune of “Hot for Teacher” by Van Halen)
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What do you think the Creature’s gonna look like this movie?
Oh Yeah!
Cr-Cr-Creature start us screaming, Creature don’t you see?
Don’t want to be no original idea fool
Maybe this craft is goin to hell, but that’s just as well
A Creature is what they want to see -With a drool
I think of all the exploration that I’ve missed
But than my home world was never quite like this !
Ow! Even if the script is bad, very bad, very bad
I’m Hot for Creature
Even if we make the makers of “Alien” mad, so mad
I’m Hot for Creature
I think of all the exploitation that I’ve missed
But Star Wars was never as easy to rip off as this!
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B-Side: “Can’t Stop Lovin The Alien” by Van Hagar and David Bowie
Hahaha! OMG this one is perfect.
@@TheHorrorGeek Thank you kindly, Sir 😀🥰
Mike you’ve bloody done it again. Great variety of movies you’ve highlighted the last few months. Hell Yea Danny be proud.
This is a pretty good one. I'm glad you finally got around to reviewing it. Happy to own this one on DvD
David Schmoeller directed Kinski in Crawlspace (1986). There's a video on RUclips ("David Schmoeller on Klaus Kinski") in which the talks about how the antics of Kinski on the set of that movie drove him up the wall.
"Please kill Mr kinski"
The crew would say that everyday to schmoller.
At first in secret, then eventually in front of Klaus.
I loved this movie when I was a kid. Still terrified of kinski.
That's very wise. He had one hell of a history of violence.
Ach, my favorite German, Klaus Kinski. Legend has it that Steven Spielberg offered him the role of a Nazi in his Indiana Jones movie but he declined. He said it was too insulting to Germany and Germans. The more you know.
I saw "Creature" on television a long time ago and the effects are what made it a memorable game.
An alien by itself wouldnt be that notable, but one that turns people into bloody Space Zombies, and bites a woman's neck clean through is.
Along with Galaxy of Terror its one of the great ripoffs of Alien.
I watched many of these cheesy sci-fi horror movies while eating pizza and drinking beer!! Those were great times ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤. Love your channel
A decent piece of fun. I’m proud to say I saw this in the theatres. And it looked great on the big screen; the prosthetic makeups really held up in tight closeups. 👍👻
Kinski makes this monster look like a rubber toy lizard. He's so... alien.
I freaking loved Night Court. The last episode Bull gets abducted by aliens 😆.
"It was nice of Klaus to bring Beth over to the climax"
Hell yeah
There was an even earlier made for television rip off that took place on board an oil rig somewhere. They pulled up an egg or something and eventually a creature which looked suspiciously like an earth-tone ALIEN pops out of it and begins killing everyone. I only saw it once, though I know it aired twice (I missed it the 2nd time).
The Intruder within I think it's called.
@@danbradley8173Correct! "The Intruder Within" aka "The Lucifer Rig". It featured Chad Everett and Joseph Bottoms. It was actually pretty nasty at the time for a made-for-TV flick.
Ah Titan Find (Creature in the US) I haven't seen that since the days of VHS . Definitely one of the better alien rip offs out there. I know I quite enjoyed it and it had a great UK VHS cover .But All I really remember about it is Klaus Kinski , thàt it was really really dark and hard to see the creature and dead people being controlled by slug things
Ah that cover, a great example of how they used to lure me in. Promises promises!
@@GregBreden 💯 , I have a folder filled with VHS sleeves just for that reason.
Titan Find was always sat next to Return to Horror High another great cover that was so much better than the film could ever be.
@@krs4976 Ha ha, yeh, I had to look that up but I do remember it. I kept a few of mine too, they're works of art which gain their deeper meaning when you know what was actually delivered, I wish I'd kept more of them. I still have the cover for Creepozoids which would fit well with Titan Find in a double bill. Deathstalker was one that always peed me off. The monster with the club on the cover looked so good I thought we were going to be treated to some cool stop motion animation for it to look like that. Nope!
@@GregBreden yeah they definitely are works of art and they hold alot of nostalgia and memories of a time and places missed by many.
Back in the early 2000s I got 3/4 of the way through writing a book called
The misleading but mesmerising art of 80s VHS covers.
Which contained covers , synopsis, mine and some friends preconceived thoughts on what the films might be, actual review of film and nostalgic stories. Unfortunately my computer completely died and I was unable to retrieve any of the work I had done. It broke my heart at the time but thinking back I hadn't even thought about things like copyright on the covers so I don't know if it really would have gone anywhere if I'd finished it 🤷
Deathstalker and Creepozoids were both in there. Deathstalker had a fantastic cover and was such a let down the film didn't come close to delivering on its promise , it's still a guilty pleasure though .
@@krs4976 I would certainly have bought your book if it crossed my radar.
Titan Find here in Blighty. Watched it on VHS. Does anybody remember VHS? Christ, I'm old!
My nephew (in Blighty too), when he first saw my vinyl collection said "I like all your tapes" 🤔errm?
My VHS copy is far superior to the trash they put out on DVD. Poor quality, not even letterbox. I was outraged and took it back to the shop to demand a refund at the time. Unfortunately as I'd opened it they wouldn't budge. Apparently its sh*t wasn't a compelling reason to refund.
@@Whalewraith Yeh, sometimes the original
materials get lost and someone tries their luck with a video tape capture. I've got a fair few sub VHS standard DVDs. You never know when something obscure will get a re master though.
@@GregBreden apparently there's a crystal clear wide-screen US release but its a rare find.
Vinegar Syndrome released a Blu-ray release of this movie and it looks amazing. Better than the VHS and bootleg DVD.
Bill Malone is a good filmmaker and preserver of genre memorabilia. I'm biased having known the man from attending the premiere of the original "Alien" at the Egyptian theater and (like DePalma and Hitchcock) his first feature "Scared to Death" also was an "Alien" tribute. He deserves a special award for being able to handle the awesome Klaus Kinski. As a William Castle fan I really appreciated Mr. Malone's remake of "House on Haunted Hill". His work shows that he is a true devotee.
Oh yes! I'm always in the market for an Alien rip-off- good or bad.
Me too, Martin!
@@TheHorrorGeekNot even sure if I've seen this= looks like it's not the worst of it's- numerous- kind.
This is a good B Sci Fi horror!
@@4411825 yep- it's a fun movie.
Love the bit where Kinski turns up chomping on a burger. Apparently he picked it up on his way to the set 😀
Haha! I had not heard that, but that would totally check out.
Kinski munching on a sandwich while delivering exposition during a tense scene always makes me laugh.
He was eating that sandwich like a man who had worked a long shift at work and had not had any food for 10 hours straight. That may have been him working through his actual lunch break and the director decided to just kill two birds with one stone just to save time on filming.
If Klaus Kinski had creative control of his own subtitles: "Werner Herzog is still not returning my calls!"
Hey, herzog was still one of the closest friends Klaus had. He was the only director who worked with Klaus more than once.
My Dad rented this one back in the day and was incredulous at how obviously it was ripping off "Alien" wholesale because he was/is a rabid fan of that movie. Me, I just thought it was boring even with the cute babes in it. The monster looks more like a WH40K Tyranid to me, but then again those were and are totally Giger/Xenomorph-inspired in the first place, so makes sense to me.
I agree that Klaus Kinski would have made an excellent slasher villain. The man can look terrifying just standing there. I loved how skinny the monster was-you'd think eating people would make you bulky.
Look for the movie Crawlspace.
I know of it by reputation.@@HECTORMONTALVO-le9cn
Look for the movie Schizoid.
Been looking forward to this one! The best alien knock off for sure by the Best Value Horror Geek William Malone who has to show off his geeky nerd creed with props and dialog.
Damn, that zombie astronaut cover of Titan Find looks awesome! I watched this maybe a couple years ago with my dad, and we both thought it was pretty good (I did especially like the "we found an alien butterfly collection" idea). Also, while I'm old enough to remember Night Court, since it came back even toddlers will remember it.
Klaus was a very good villain on Spy Who Loved Me.
This is on tubi. The box art shows it as Creature but when playing the movie the title card is The Titan Find.
Totally awesome review of this cool movie "Creature" aka "Titan Find". I like this movie, one of the better of the low budget 80s horror movies out there. Great video!
One of those movies you used to see on late night TV, break out the beer and chips!
With actors you've actually heard of, you don't often see that with this budget.
Yeah, this one really has quite the cast for what it is.
I remember picking out Titan Find in a cardboard box of VHS tapes my neighbour lent my dad after he bought our very first VHS recorder. I can still remember some of the others in the box such as Nightmare on Elm Street and Campus Corpse. I was too young to see most of the films so I had to watch them in secret when mum and dad were not about!
oh geez, you got me thinking that ketchup would technically be a smoothie- as would salsa!
and RIP to everyone but Roz and Dan from Night Court 😢 never thought that i’d see a reference to that amazing show here
From what I understand, the room where the Creature makes its lair was later used as the hq room in Aliens. Gotta love Alien rip offs with special effects from people who actually worked on Aliens.
"We gotta get home before Ferris!"... You kill me
I'm such an idiot... :p
Great episode. It's been so long since I watched this that I forgot Klaus Kinski was in it. Time to watch it again. Thanks for your efforts.
First horror movie I ever saw! Thanks for the memories!!
Glad you enjoyed it
"If tomatoes are fruit, does that make ketchup a smoothie?" 😂 Ironically and funnily enough, ketchup could double for a nice vomit effect as well. Take it from me, I've thrown up enough times to know.
Hell yeah Mike! You are the Johnny Rotten of movies nearly forgotten! It's funny how dude sat down on something that looked like a giant suppository. I always confused Marky Post with Macgyver. It made puberty... awkward. Nice Ralph Kramden joke. I remember The Honeymooners cause you guessed it, Christ I'm old. Was Klaus gassy? He always looks like he's smelling something rank... like his acting. I've got a serious soft spot for knock offs. In fact, my stereo is a Soknee. Enough of my jibber jabber. Stay SICK Mike, seeings how I'm in CA., I'm going to get back to Bathing In Bacteria. Listen to UNEMBALMED!!!!🤘👹💀👹🤘
Love this film. Got it on DVD. His other films Syngenor and Scared to Death are also fun watches.
The cheesy "scary" music over the title card made me chuckle. And I now sing "The More You Know" to its accompanying music! 😂
8:57 fun fact - kinski copped a feel in this scene.
It wasnt in the script and diane salinger had no idea it was coming (hell yeah! no not that kind of coming)
Creature was a staple of 80s VHS videoclubs everybody had it. When I rented it to record it I liked it a lot. But what I always remembered the most was Klaus Kinski. Recently I acquired The Werner Herzog Collection and of course it has the Kinski movies. It also has the documentary My Friend dedicated to Kinski and his madness. He would argue with anybody from the movie but especially with Herzog. In between takes he would rant for something for hours stalling the film. Yeah he was quite a character.🤪 As always awesome review and cool video Mike!👉🙂👈
There’s a documentary thats included with Severin’s release of Nosferatu in Venice. The movie is worth the purchase for the documentary alone. It covers Kinski’s final years and shows him in a positive light.
@@Reverend_Nada really? I want to look into that one!👍
When I was a kid I saw this for rent and got a little freaked out after reading the plot summery on the back of the cover. Kids' imaginations are intense!
Man I remember this from back in the day. I was surprised to find it steaming on Prime and later on Tubi. It’s funny how much cooler low budget sci-fi looks when you are kid versus when you rewatch them as an adult.
Great work, Mike! Is it too late to wish you and your loved ones a Happy New Year? Cheers!
The monster..... uhm.... alien, whatever, it looked brilliant for what the movie was. Such a bad/good movie. Haven't seen it since sometime in the early 90's, so definitely need to see it again. Thanks for reminding us all about all the great forgotten movies.
You ever have this thing where you watch one old film and it reminds you of another so you watch that and before you know it you're having a videothon? If I was gonna have a double bill with this I'd have Forbidden World, it's got that big black creature thing in it and similar tone. Does anyone remember Creepozoids and Deep Space? Deep Space so wanted to be Alien that whenever the creature appeared there was a strobe light from nowhere just because the last 30mins of Alien had strobes in.
Haha! I need to get to both of those...maybe later this year.
@@TheHorrorGeek Ah, and then you ended with Forbidden World. High five!
Just started watching Red Dwarf again and the show pays tribute to so many sci-fi shows in so many ways, especially the Alien franchise with running down industrial corridors and Mac McDonald from Aliens playing the captain.
4:40-I loved Night Court. RIP to everyone from that we've lost. :(
Yeah, Richard moll alone could give Mike a good half dozen episodes.
Do you kids even remember...? They do now with the reboot.
@@carpecanem611I remember watching the original Night Court back in the 90s.
Fun fact; Klaus Kinski was adept at playing unhinged, crazy characters because he wasn't acting. Directors would go through the script with him, then he'd just be himself.
He wasn't acting so much as just being.
His children chose not to attend his funeral. That's disgust on the worst level.
@clarencewalker3925 well, his son was there. His daughters ... well, they had cause to hold a grudge.
Nice switch to black and white when he curb-stomps the space slug.
Glad someone noticed that. 😂
It's because of movies like this that when I entered grade school I had this impression there were more than 3 Alien movies lol
I heard of this movie but now I want to watch it thanks again buddy I love cheesy little budget stuff especially if it doesn't take up too much of my time I like to watch movies that are like around like 60 Minutes to 95 minutes
When a film can be described as a "rip-off," it's bound to make good fodder! In this case, I know that for a fact!
Apparently like so many other IP’s, there’s a rebooted Night Court show that even features the original Dan Fielding. Christ forbid Hollywood put out anything original.
That would mean they would have to manage to find writing that is original first.
Night Court reference? I loved that show.
OOO-KAY!
I can imagine the reaction of whoever edited this movie when he saw the arsenal. "Okay, who put the Star Wars laser gun on the wall and didn't clear it with legal? Lucas is gonna shit a brick when he finds out." 😀 (I mean, it sure *looks* like a blaster.)
I was going to guess "Is it Creature?" only to find out that it is.
OK, the better question is "is it the restored version?" because the one I saw looked like crap. Actual crap in a toilet that you couldn't flush because you know if you tried the toilet would overflow.
So, I went with the shorter version (Creature) and not the extended version (Titan Find) because of most of my US audience is more likely to have seen Creature. This was sourced from the recent Blu-ray from...I forget (Severin or VS...) and it looks better than I've ever seen it look. :p
A typical movie that people like me watch once every few years even though it's not so interesting.😁
On the 80s tech and budget it is good
Whenever I see Kinski in a movie, I assume that the entire crew received hazard pay just for dealing with him.
Probably a safe assumption.
I am 100% sure that Klaus Kinski just aimlessly wandered onto the set of Creature one day and, him acting as he normally does i.e. being himself, they just decided to put him in the film anyways. In the credits it should have said Klaus Kinski as Himself!
Haha! I would totally believe that happened.
Ngl, that Titan Find artwork looks eerily similar to the spooky space kook from Scooby Doo.
I like that they are wearing ID badges. There are seven people on this ship! Who is gonna ask "Let's see some ID, buddy"?
Haha exactly!
3:45 that gave me super low budget Dynasty vibes
At the point where the ships hits the space station it looked like the cockpit was on fire. Never could figure that out. Bought it on dvd back in early 2k.
Speaking about members only jackets I bought two of them in Fort Myers Goodwill
The actress reading the paperback is Wendy Schaal, who was in Innerspace, The 'Burbs and Small Soldiers, but is probably best known for voicing Francine in American Dad!.
Klaus Kinski, chews scenery like it's a Old Country Buffet... Do you remember Old County Buffet? Christ, I'm old!
"Not enough scenery for Klaus to chew on!" So true. I'm ready for Klaus Kinski pimp slap. 😅😂
Nice going Mike, because of you I can no longer sit on my couch and enjoy a movie. I keep making jokes, innuendos and archaic cultural references driving my wife nuts and now I'm sleeping in the garage, thanks bro! 😂
Haha sorry not sorry. 😂
My favorite Alien rip-off was Forbidden World (1982). Yes, no one can hear you scream in space, but you can still see LOTS of boobage.
gonna be nearly midnight when this starts live for me. worth staying up for though. and seems like an appropriate time anyway
You had me from "is she cosplaying the Baroness from Cobra" l This was great. Thanks Mike!!!
Haha! glad someone appreciated that one. :p
This cover art painting really brings out the disdain in Kinski's eyes. 🤘
Those space helmets remind my of that two-parter Doctor Who episode where he visits the universe's biggest library
That episode with the microscopic Vashta Narada eating people and leaving behind their skeletons and echoing their last thoughts could've been inspired by Creature.
16:00-I make that joke about the computers at work all the time. Seriously, we got some CRT monitors from the Bush era! As in the first one!
Saw someone else critique this film, it gets the bloody popcorn award for an over the top performance by mad actor Klaus Kinski and decent xenomorph suit but could cut down on slow walking scenes.
God, Klaus Kinski, that qualifies the shooting of this movie as production hell.
Always wished Klaus Kinski did a film with Udo Kier. Now that would be something.
One for the ages for sure.
Lol! That movie would've been ridiculously German, lol! 😂@@TheHorrorGeek
Budget Sigourney Weaver also looks like Dollar Tree Zule 😆
Never seems to be enough alien ripoffs.
Better a ripoff than a reboot or a reimagining.
This is the best Alien rip off ever
I remember when this came out on VHS when I worked in the video store in the late 80s - nothing notable stands out in my memory except Klaus Kinski and some visual FX
Kinski was also in Android around the same time