The instant the thing is seen lunging out of its host they resort to a cut away of our hero "David" played by Andrew Stevens looking on from a observation room and exclaims "Oh my God he's in the air vent. The next seven minutes he is crippled, crawling around and doing everything except simply sounding the dog whistle he has hanging from his neck the whole time. Moreover, there are also a few effectively harsh touches which include an attempted abortion that goes hideously awry and an extremely brutal monster rape set piece. So the crew is wiped out by reason of stupidity, The rubber guy got them and they did not even shoot their weapons or blow their whistles, All very entertaining, Take the kids, they won't get the "pregnant part" anyway.

This allows for the second half to be a series of showdowns, making their action-packed exploits all the easier to sit through. The familiar plot sees a group of scientists, survivors of a plague that has all but wiped out humanity, finding a woman in the wilderness surrounding their underground lab complex. Trying to determine how she survived the plague-ridden countryside, the eventual discovery of her abnormal pregnancy is made. With over 6 million of the world’s best eBooks to choose from, Kobo offers you a whole world of reading. There is also a neat bit of psych going on when they refuse to abort and monster fetus on request which you have to laugh at.

The Kingdom of Elarda has been at war with a Kingdom of monsters for 12 years, both sides have been devastated by the war. To Cormans' credit, the sets look decent, and also giving the look of the movie some degree of quality is the work of cinematographer Rohn Schmidt, who's gone on to big things such as the feature film "The Mist" and the TV series 'The Walking Dead'.

So there's explosives, high powered lasers, light sex scene, monster rape scene and lots of shout outs to the alien movie tropes and what not and its all because of dudes in pink rubber suits. They locate a survivor and bring her back to the facility, but she turns out to be pregnant and it turns out to be a monster and thus it begins to attack the members of the facility! They have like six main cast members, but as soon as the monster takes out one of them, the others are taken out within a span of ten minutes and we are done to the final two people and watching one get thrown around by the monster just like in the worse film, "Creepazoids". I guess it's not really spicy enough for the sub, it's an old story and nothing really much out of the ordinary pattern but reading through all these rape stories, just thought I should share. Jaws was one of the films he would do, but the film that seemed to bring out some of his more entertaining films during the 70's, 80's and 90's.

The sound acting by the sturdy cast helps a lot: Andrew Stevens as the rugged David, George Kennedy as no-nonsense lab head Hal, Starr Andreeff as the sweet, spunky Sue, Terri Treas as tough, feisty doctor Linds, John LaFayette as the easygoing Andre, and Tommy Hinkley as wisecracking goofball Neil.

Think Alien - as this movie quickly moves to rip that off, a switcheroo when you were expecting Mad Max. There intention was clear, create suspense and have a proper reveal for when the Gargoyle is finally seen.But by todays standards, then this was a mere rubber suit with a facial mask that was unable to articulate. Everything looks low-rent, which is cemented by its compact setting and stuffily framed direction but still lingering within is a grim atmosphere. The film probably just took a few days to shoot; still I think George Kennedy had other, more urgent places to go to. A crew of interplanetary archaeologists is threatened when an alien creature impregnates one of their members, causing her to turn homicidal and murder them one by one. Soon Kennedy and his crew have to come up to get food and rescue a frightened young girl who seems to be on the brink of death.

I mean, there are evil gargoyles taking over the world and no one brought an assault shotgun or machine gun? The plot takes a "Ten Little Indian" turn by midpoint, I am sorry, so sue me, but the monster on the soundtrack reminded me of the great Supy Sales's, off stage pet, "Black Tooth" Blarh ! But the people of the deep underground scientific base Mojave Station were able to administer themselves an antidote, and now they spend their time foraging for supplies and looking for other survivors. Unlike other such movies, the rubber monster is shown quite a bit, and while not a total embarrassment, close examination reveals its absurdity.

If you are an aspiring filmmaker or enjoy informative and entertaining commentaries, this is a must own. The monster is without question one of the most memorable of the decade and the amount of detail in everything from his face to the body is just pretty remarkable and especially when you consider the budget. What the story lacks in imagination (as it does draw upon a predictable amalgam) and coherence, it makes up for in durable performances (a likable Andrew Stevens, George Kennedy, John Lafayette, Starr Andreeff and Terri Treas all keeping it straight) and gruesomely tacky splatter (even though it doesn't have much impact in engineering the deaths and tawdry jolts). It's way to humanoid, sports not a whole lot of detailing in major areas that need it, and just simply screams fake. This really makes it seem like there's no real down-time at all, and by making the creatures' appearance in the film really early works wonders.