Rish Outfield's reviews
Concorde presents another one of these movies that you never even have to see to know everything about it. But hey, I'm here to see it for you.
It takes place in a post-apocalyptic future, and a bunch of folks are living in an underground bunker. The surface is populated by grotesque humanoid monster mutants and eventually, they attack. One gets in, but the other beasties just hang out outside the complex. The twist is, it kills the men and impregnates the women!
It stars George Kennedy, Terri Treas (again?), and Andrew Stevens (who started out in The Fury, and went on to star in a bunch of late night sex movies with Shannon Tweed and the like). Though obviously a man in a suit, sometimes the monster is cool and unusual. Looking a bit like a combo of the Predator and the Alien. The creature is a living contradiction: It kills secondary characters instantly but considerately grapples with the main ones. Laser beams don't faze it, but a dog can hold its own against it. Luckily, though, it can be taken out by the ultra-high frequency of a dog whistle. Storywise, there are two dumb guys with snappy banter, just like in Alien, one's white and one's black. As a bonus, we get a gory baby monster birth scene. It seemed similar to Alien early on, and became Alien 2 at one point, but luckily, it ends with the following brilliant originality: The monster gets into the complex and crawls around in the air ducts, so the people construct flame throwers to zap it with and split up to go after it. But seriously, they do explore the cool detail that dogs (and aliens) can hear dog whistles, but humans cannot . . . so we don't know if the sound stops. And remember filmmakers of the future, the dog is ALWAYS more important than the people.
Produced by Roger Corman himself, The Terror Within ranges from lame to semi-alright in a B-movie no budget ripoff sort of way. It's a crappy movie that's not really worth seeing, but I made it all the way through and never kicked my set in. If that's not a hearty recommendation, I don't know what is.

Total Skulls: 12

Sequel
Sequel setup
Rips off earlier film		Alien
Horror film showing on TV/in theater in movie
Future celebrity appears
Former celebrity appears
Bad title
Bad premise
Bad acting
Bad dialogue
Bad execution
MTV Editing
OTS
Girl unnecessarily gets naked
Wanton sex
Death associated with sex
Unfulfilled promise of nudity
Characters forget about threat
Secluded location
Power is cut
Phone lines are cut
Someone investigates a strange noise
Someone runs up stairs instead of going out front door
Camera is the killer
Victims cower in front of a window/door
Victim locks self in with killer
Victim running from killer inexplicably falls
Toilet stall scene
Shower/bath scene
Car stalls or won't start
Cat jumps out
Fake scare
Laughable scare
Stupid discovery of corpse
Dream sequence
Hallucination/Vision
No one believes only witness
Crazy, drunk, old man knows the truth
Warning goes unheeded
Music detracts from scene
Death in first five minutes
x years before/later
Flashback sequence
Dark and stormy night
Killer doesn't stay dead
Killer wears a mask
Killer is in closet
Killer is in car with victim
Villain is more sympathetic than heroes
Unscary villain/monster
Beheading
Blood fountain
Blood hits camera
Poor death effect
Excessive gore
No one dies at all
Virgin survives
Geek/Nerd survives
Little kid lamely survives
Dog/Pet miraculously survives
Unresolved subplots
"It was all a dream" ending
Unbelievably happy ending
Unbelievably crappy ending
What the hell?