Review of Star Crystal (1986) by Jason D — 05 Jun 2009

Oh boy, was this movie interesting! Star Crystal is about astronauts who find a crystallized rock on Mars and bring it into their ship. An alien blob hatches from it and suddenly, everyone on the ship suffocates and dies.

Now, pan a few months later where the ship is docked at a docking station and a review is under going until the station becomes unstable and a small group of survivors make off with the original ship as the station blows up.

Now, this group is stuck on the ship with the blob E.T. (oddly enough, resembling both of these famous aliens). It starts sucking the life out of them one by one in very quick fashion until it turns into a cat and mouse again with the alien against two survivors.

THEN, the movie goes a complete 180 and the super intelligent alien starts studying humans, realizes what he's done, befriends the survivors and engages in an UNBELIEVABLY hilarious montage that includes them eating together, repairing stuff together, and playing board games (I KID YOU NOT!!!).

I couldn't stop laughing, seriously. Wow, it goes from a mood piece to a terror in space piece to a damn kids movie all in one sitting. Most bizarre Alien-ripoff film I've ever seen. Hands down.

Hilarious.