Cult Movie Challenge 2018 | 34/52 | American International
In the future year of 1990, humanity has sick moon bases and shit. They receive some weird signals from the aether of space — oh boy, alien contact! The message is a distress signal, indicating that they’ve crash-landed on Mars. The International Institute of Space Technology (IIST) sends a rescue team to retrieve them.
At first, all the team finds is one dead alien. Where are the others? The answer lies on Phobos, one of Mars’ two moons.
I watched this movie over Thanksgiving with my dad and brother and kept meaning to write a more in-depth review, but I’m saying fuck it.
The story has almost no pulse. The pacing is glacial. But those special effects are chef’s kiss. I was never bored by all the fun choices the filmmakers made in depicting the alien technology.
Dennis Hopper has a minor role, and as I’ve said in other reviews, he brings such a naturalism to his performance that he elevates the material almost accidentally.
This movie is explicitly for the classic sci-fi nerds and no one else.