{"id":6741,"date":"2024-10-25T10:32:41","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T14:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/?p=6741"},"modified":"2024-10-25T10:32:41","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T14:32:41","slug":"inseminoid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/2024\/10\/25\/inseminoid\/","title":{"rendered":"Inseminoid"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Inseminoid <\/strong>(1981)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Almi Cinema 5\/Sci-Fi-Horror\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 93 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (violence, gore, rape, nudity, language)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Norman J. Warren\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Nick and Gloria Maley\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: John Scott\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: John Metcalfe\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: November 1982 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Robin Clarke, Jennifer Ashley, Stephanie Beacham, Steven Grives, Barry Houghton, Rosalind Lloyd, Victoria Tennant, Trevor Thomas, Heather Wright, David Baxt, Judy Geeson, Dominic Jephcott, John Segal, Kevin O\u2019Shea, Robert Pugh.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Box Office: N\/A<\/p>\n

Rating<\/strong>: ***<\/p>\n

\u00a0I have no idea why the American distributor of the British sci-fi-horror movie Inseminoid<\/strong> changed the title to something as generic as Horror Planet for release in the US in \u201982. Perhaps it\u2019s because they thought nobody would understand the meaning. Or maybe it was because respectable theaters would likely refuse to display such a title on their marquees. Whatever the reason, it was a bad call. It came and went with nary a notice. It might have done a little better under its original title; Inseminoid<\/strong> is definitely the better of the two. It\u2019s certainly the one more likely to grab my attention. As for the movie itself, it\u2019s pretty good.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I tried to watch Horror Planet in \u201992, but never made it all the way through. As far as I know, my old VHS copy is sitting in a box in my basement still only half-rewound. It wasn\u2019t that I didn\u2019t like it; I just wasn\u2019t all that interested. I finally decided to give Inseminoid<\/strong> a second chance this past week; I made it part of my weekly grindhouse package. I\u2019ve made worse choices.<\/p>\n

\u00a0As you might expect, Inseminoid<\/strong> is an Alien knock-off with its story of a space crew being killed off by a malevolent alien creature. Well, there\u2019s a bit of a twist; it hasn\u2019t actually been born yet. Let me start from the top. The story centers of a group of archeologists and scientists stationed on a freezing planet studying the ruins of an ancient civilization, one apparently founded on the concept of dualism. The energy field surrounding crystals discovered in a cave further suggest it was controlled by some form of chemical intelligence.<\/p>\n

\u00a0A mysterious explosion triggers a few tragic events including the deaths of three team members. The worst is yet to come however. While collecting more crystals, Sandy (Geeson, To Sir with Love) is raped and impregnated by an alien. She\u2019s taken back to the base where the doctor Karl (Houghton, Firefox) discovers it\u2019s an accelerated pregnancy. Then it takes her over completely. She proceeds to go on a killing spree, bumping off her colleagues and feeding on their flesh. Will the remaining team members be able to stop her before she gives birth to a bloodthirsty alien monster?<\/p>\n

\u00a0Where do I go from here? I could comment on Inseminoid<\/strong> preying on pregnant women\u2019s fears of giving birth to a monster, especially if the pregnancy is the result of rape. This aspect of it caused local papers in the UK to be besieged by letters from irate women offended by the material. The only thing it accomplished was increasing the film\u2019s box office. Whatever the filmmaker\u2019s intentions, I don\u2019t want to ascribe political or social importance to Inseminoid<\/strong>. That\u2019s not why I watched it.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I already mentioned its similarity to Alien so no need to go there. I will, however, say that it does its source material proud (more or less). Director Norman J. Warren (Satan\u2019s Slave) infuses Inseminoid<\/strong> with a fair amount of suspense. He even manages to elicit a jump or two with a few decent \u201cBOO!\u201d scenes. It also has a few nice gory scenes. The pacing is a little off with a slow-ish beginning. Once it gets into the action, it\u2019s fairly steady. Considering the low budget, the production design is rather impressive. The special effects are cheap, but that\u2019s not a bad thing. That\u2019s one of the things I love about B-level sci-fi flicks from the 70s and 80s. Besides, the animatronic alien effects in Inseminoid<\/strong> are cool. They\u2019re vicious buggers they are (to put it like an Englishman).<\/p>\n

\u00a0The acting is about what you\u2019d expect from both the British and American cast members. Stephanie Beacham (And Now the Screaming Starts) fares best as the Ripley character Kate. She\u2019s no Sigourney Weaver, but she\u2019ll do. The cast also includes Robin Clarke (The Greek Tycoon) as the team leader Mark, Rosalind Lloyd (The Wild Geese) as an early fatality and a young Victoria Tennant (All of Me) as Barbara who meets her fate at the pointed end of a pair of scissors. Other than that, there\u2019s really not a lot to say on the performance front. The actors do their job effectively enough, that\u2019s it.<\/p>\n

\u00a0As far as this type of movie goes, Inseminoid<\/strong> is decent. It\u2019s not as gory as I would have liked, but that\u2019s life. It tells a good albeit familiar story. It\u2019s a good fit on a grindhouse triple bill. Even with its faults, it\u2019s still more entertaining than a lot of today\u2019s mammoth budget sci-fi movies.\"\"<\/p>\n

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Inseminoid (1981)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Almi Cinema 5\/Sci-Fi-Horror\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 93 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (violence, gore, rape, nudity, language)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Norman J. Warren\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Nick and Gloria Maley\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: John Scott\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: John Metcalfe\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: November 1982 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Robin Clarke, Jennifer Ashley, Stephanie Beacham, Steven Grives, Barry Houghton, Rosalind Lloyd, Victoria Tennant, Trevor Thomas, Heather Wright, David […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7098,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-b-movies","category-sci-fi-fantasy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Inseminoid-PIC.jpg?fit=620%2C348&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6741"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7100,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6741\/revisions\/7100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}