DEEP SPACE Fred Olen Ray’s fun Alien rip-off – free on YouTube

‘They created a monster over lunch. Now it’s back for dinner…’
Deep Space – stylized as DeepSpace – is a 1988 sci-fi action horror film

The movie was co-produced and directed by Fred Olen Ray (Jack-O 2; Piranha Women; Stage Fright (2017); Super Shark; Dire Wolf; Glass Trap; The Unliving/Tomb of the Werewolf; Evil Toons; Haunting Fear; Alienator; Cyclone; Deep Space; Star Slammer; The Tomb; Biohazard; Scalps) from a screenplay co-written with T.L. Lankford.

The Trans World Entertainment production stars Charles Napier (Skeeter; Body Bags; Alien from the Deep; Wacko), Ann Turkel (Humanoids from the Deep 1980), Bo Svenson (Beyond the Door III; Curse II: The Bite; Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker; Snowbeast), Ron Glass, Julie Newmar (Batman), James Booth (Revenge, 1971), Norman Burton, Jesse Dabson, Elisabeth Brooks, Anthony Eisley (Evil Spirits; Monstroid; Dracula vs. Frankenstein; The Mummy and the Curse of the Jackals; The Witchmaker; The Mighty Gorga; The Navy vs. the Night Monsters; The Wasp Woman), Peter Palmer, Fox Harris, Michael Forest, William Fair, Dawn Wildsmith, Suzy Stokey, Rachel Howard and Carl D. Parker.

Steve Neill (Puppetmaster; The Stuff) provided the special effects makeup.

Plot:
A US satellite transporting a secretly engineered creature crashes to Earth near Los Angeles.

Police officers Ian McLemore (Charles Napier) and Carla Sandbourn (Ann Turkel) are assigned to pursue the escaped mutant beast.

Along the way, they clash with their superior, Captain Robertson (Bo Svenson) and the scientists behind the project.

Psychic Lady Elaine Wentworth (Julie Newmar) also lends them a hand before McLemore uses a chainsaw to battle with the beast in a fight to the finish…

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Choice dialogue:
Jerry Merris: You know the big brown thing? It’s gone.

Det. Ian McLemore: Boss? My boss is the street, who’s yours?

Det. Ian McLemore: Killed for a bag of Halloween shit.

Det. Ian McLemore: Jerry, do you smell something?
Jerry Merris: Ah, smells like the old government cover-up.

Carla Sandbourn: Is this actually what you do on your spare time or is this a special occasion?
Det. Ian McLemore: I don’t have any spare time.
Carla Sandbourn: Oh, twenty four-hour-a-day company man?
Det. Ian McLemore: You can say that.
Carla Sandbourn: So this actually means that you were on duty earlier when you were in bed with me?
Det. Ian McLemore: I would call that working undercover for the Vice Squad.

Det. Ian McLemore: Call Robertson, have him get some backup down here.
Carla Sandbourn: I thought you wanted to do this alone.
Det. Ian McLemore: I do, but somebody’s got to come down and clean up the mess ’cause I’m gonna make a big one.

Carla Sandbourn: Ian, what the hell you running from?
Det. Ian McLemore: You remember that little creature we saw at Jerry’s house?
Carla Sandbourn: Yeah.
Det. Ian McLemore: Imagine that 50 times bigger and pissed off.

Guest review by our colleague Leo from Geek Legion of Doom:

Trailer [1080p HD]:

Free to watch online on YouTube [720p]:

Filming locations:
Filmed in Los Angeles in 1987.

Budget:
$1,750,000 (estimated)

Technical specs:
1 hour 26 minutes
Audio: Stereo
Aspect ratio: 1.85: 1

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