Tinpan was cool,but that was a robot who belonged in a much better movie.Actually,he's a very,very poor man's C-3PO,but I've got a thing for robots (nothing sexual,but,you know). I was enticed to view this very obvious B movie on account of a nice looking cover of a skeleton in a spacesuit.Needless to say,none of the characters featured are ever seen in spacesuits and neither are any of the characters astronauts.Misleading advertising or what? And the actual film itself is nothing worth watching,despite it's (extremely) compact running time,with it's droll script,bland characters and special effects that could be bettered by the standards of a Wrigley's Spearmint Gum advert. Only 70 minutes long.Only 10 characters featured.Yet Dead Space still manages to be a total Dead Zone of a film. STAR RATING:*****Unmissable****Very Good***Okay**You Could Go Out For A Meal Instead*Avoid At All Costs The plot,as it were,has Marc Singer as a character called Captain Krieger who along with his robot,er,Tinpan (Rodger Hall), zooms about the universe doing not a very lot,it would seem.Until,that is,he answers a distress call from a research facility by the name of Phaebon,where a potentially lethal virus has been discovered.Before long,all manner of hell has broken loose and the virus (that,by the end,has somehow inexplicably taken the form of a giant monster) must be stopped. Still, if I did not get this on a double feature set of movies along with "The Terror Within" I would be a bit more ticked off. Though this film features one of the most unheroic moments I have ever seen near the end that had me chuckling too. Even the girls were more attractive in the other film. The monster does not look as good, the robot looks dreadful (though it did not look great in the original) just not enough here. I have watched a lot of horror movies the past few weeks and this theme is getting old. That and another thing that made this film kind of hard to watch was the fact it featured more creature in the air vent scenes. Stupid twists and the ending was not as cool either. In that one it was a really nifty 80's sounding set of tracks while this was very forgettable. I mean the effects were even better in that one, as was the music. It was not all bad as there was one rather good jump moment I was not expecting and there was a couple of good gore effects, but overall "Forbidden World" has this one beat in nearly every possible way. So yes, like "Forbidden World" only with all the fun stripped from it. This one is basically a lot less fun version, you have Marc Singer and his robot pal going to a planet cause an experiment has gone array. Why? I am sure everyone out there would like an answer to this, but I am guessing he wanted to make a more serious version or something. Not only did he remake it, he apparently decided to take out most of the nudity, make it less gory and make it a bit more talkative. So let me get this straight, Roger Corman for reasons only he himself knows decided to remake the film "Forbidden World". "Forbidden World" wasn't exactly a movie crying out to be redone, and "Dead Space" itself isn't a movie crying out to be watched very often - if indeed one watches it more than once. Cranston does his best given the circumstances. Randy Reinholz delivers a useless performance as an equally useless character named Tim. Singer is passable as the hero, and the ladies (Laura Mae Tate, Judith Chapman, Lori Lively) are pretty. If one is already familiar with "Forbidden World", they'll experience a fair bit of deja vu, as this version sticks pretty close to the original plot. The makeup and creature effects are actually not that bad, thanks to the efforts of Gabe Bartalos, an old pro at this sort of thing. Directed (not so well) by Fred Gallo, it's routine through and through, and highly uninspired. Because of him, the acting is a hair better than you'd usually be subject to in a LOW rent production like this one. If people seek out "Dead Space" for any reason, it's likely because they learned that it was a very early credit for the Emmy winning actor Bryan Cranston. It's up to Steve to save the day, with some occasional assistance from the doofuses around him. These morons have been monkeying around with genetics and viruses and they've managed to create a mutating, evolving life form. Exactly what he's a commander of, I don't know, but he picks up a distress signal from the scientists on the planet Phaebon. The Beastmaster himself, Marc Singer, stars as Commander Steve Krieger. From the Roger Corman factory comes this extremely forgettable remake of his 1982 production "Forbidden World".
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