The Killings at Outpost Zeta

1980 "First one, then another, and another. Who or WHAT is responsible?"
3.9| 1h29m| NA| en| More Info
Released: 25 February 1980 Released
Producted By: Sandler Institutional Films
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A team of men and women investigate the mysterious deaths of two previous expeditions to a strategically important but barren world.

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Allan Sandler, Robert Emenegger

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Sandler Institutional Films

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Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.
Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful
Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful
Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.
barryalanmarshall Everything about this film is bad, as other posters have mentioned: the script, acting, special effects, set design, plot, etc.And yet, it has a certain charm. If you enjoy terrible movies you will definitely like this one. But for some the film will have even more significance as a still from the film provides the cover for electronic duo Boards of Canada's 1995 EP "Twoism".One Christmas a few years ago my girlfriend and I were watching the Horror Channel on UK satellite TV. Without knowing anything about the film we watched it, laughed at how bad it was and decided to watch it through.About 10 or 15 minutes into the film, though, I noticed that the insignia on the helmets of the space crew looked familiar. I grabbed my copy of the CD and compared: lo and behold, I'd found the source for the strange picture of a male and female astronaut embracing before they face some terrible danger.I set the video to record after that.In the end, the film was not too bad - the soundtrack features a familiar Boards of Canada-style drone. Unfortunately the film accidentally got taped over and so I have never been able to check if they'd actually sampled any of the music.
Kenny Mitchell I have seen this piece of excrement only once, but as with everyone else who saw it the memory will remain with me for ever. This was screened late one night here in the UK and I swear to you even the continuity announcer of the station was laughing and apologising in advance for what they were about to show. Take the best bits of Alien, Space 1999 and Star Trek, combine them into one movie and then throw that away, because it sure as hell wont be needed in this complete waste of celluloid.Ploughing the age-old furrow started by such classics as 'The Thing from another World' and 'It, The terror from beyond space' we have a group of people trapped in a confined space with a killer they know nothing about. One by one they go off by themselves and get murdered before they finally figure out what's actually going on and try to take action. At this point I should tell you there's a spoiler ahead, but that's a redundant phrase where this crummy movie is concerned. The killer/s turn out to be small boulders, which chase our heroes around their portacabin village on strings and suck the very talent from them. I laughed my ass off.This is a really bad movie, but if you can see past the moon boots, Space 1999 apparel and bad acting you will be rewarded by the stupidest alien monsters ever. So bad it's funny, but then again I've watched so many terrible movies now that maybe my taste may be a little warped. Well, you wont know until you watch it.
ottaky Have you ever watched a film that is so bad you end up thinking "If that film got written, funded, produced and made, just how bad would a script need to be to be rejected?" (see: Congo)Killings at Outpost Zeta will not answer your question, but it does lower the bar for bad film making to an altogether new level.This film seems to be the result of taking the worst aspects of Dr Who and Space:1999, combining them into some kind of soulless monster and then stretching the already thin premise out to near monomolecular extremes. Imagine a film student's first attempt at a movie, and then take away any spark of creativity.Just awful. Avoid at all costs.
MarkD-19 I saw this film on television back in the mid-80s when my local FOX affiliate was airing "Bad Flix." In other words: the network (and viewers) recognize this as a bad movie, yet like a car accident, people can't help watching. This is such a bad movie, it's entertaining! The plot is very similar to "Aliens," with a group of space travellers landing on a barren planet in order to learn what became of an earlier expedition team. The answer (also like "Aliens") is that they were killed one-by-one by a deadly creature... and the same fate awaits the latest band of spacefarers!Bad sets, bad costumes, a derivitive storyline, and particularly bad special effects (the laser guns our heroes use are pathetic). Yet, like "Aliens," this film is very suspenseful at times; you find yourself wondering who'll be the next to be killed and under what circumstances. (Come to think of it, isn't that why we also like Mob movies?)Worth watching, provided you go into it knowing it's a "bad flik" and just enjoy it as campy sci-fi fun. Look for Jackson Bostwick, who played superhero Captain Marvel on the first season of TV's "Shazam!"