She reckons that there is a 60% safety level. The voice over by mission commander Holly (Jennifer Ashley) lets us know that they have discovered a tomblike complex – undiscovered by the last team.
We are with the crew of Xeno 1, an archaeological mission on a planet that, despite its two suns remains at 89 below zero. Having watched this I wonder just how much of it was, later, lifted and placed in cumbersome sci-fi-leviathan Prometheus. However Warren claims no influence and I will make a more heinous claim. It has been claimed that this was a cheap Alien (1979) rip-off and it did start filming just after the earlier film wrapped. Ultimately I didn’t deem it as vampiric but, with this film, we get an alien (influence mainly but aliens as well) out there in space. His earlier Prey was a cracking exploitation film that featured an alien carnivore on Earth. After all, are they vampires or just higher on the food chain – a carnivorous creature? In many respects it depends on whether their diet is liquid or solid (though that is far from definitive and energy sometimes comes into it too) and what other traits they exhibit. It has to be said that alien vampires bring with themselves a whole lot of problems genre wise. I vacillated between looking at Inseminoid as a vampire film (of the alien vampire genus), a 'Vamp or Not?’ or simply an honourable mention.
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