A routine expedition to Mars picks up a strange rock that breaks open back at the ship, sprouting a slimy creature that soon grows big enough to turn off everybody's air supply one night. Some time later the derelict ship is recovered and brought to a space station, where a crew of two
men and three women go aboard the infested shuttlecraft. When a defective generator in the space station goes haywire, the shuttle crew blasts off and settles in for a long voyage back to Earth, not realizing the ship infested. STAR CRYSTAL is mostly a rip-off of ALIEN, with some overtones from
E.T. tossed in. The film does benefit from good special effects, but the story is badly co...
Released:
1986
Rated:
R
Length:
92 mins