‘For fourteen thousand years… it waited’
Moontrap is a 1988 sci-fi horror film in which NASA finds remains of an ancient humanoid race on the Moon that left behind deadly robots. It was released in 1989.
The movie was produced and directed by Robert Dyke from a screenplay by Tex Ragsdale. The cast features Walter Koenig (Mr Chekhov from Star Trek), Bruce Campbell (Evil Dead films and TV series) and Leigh Lombardi.
During a routine flight, two veteran space shuttle pilots discover an alien artefact and bring it back to earth. It soon turns out to be an extraterrestrial war robot, which is able to recycle any biological or technical material for its own deadly use.
The two astronauts are sent to the moon where Nasa expects to uncover the mystery of the alien robot’s origin. They discover an ancient humanoid culture and battle the ultimate threat of the war machines heading earth…
A comic book adaptation, featuring the movie’s production notes, was released in the same year by Caliber Comics.
A sequel, Moontrap II: The Pyramids of Mars, was planned but remained unmade until 2014 when it was announced that a sequel would, in fact, be produced, under the title Moontrap: Target Earth.
Buy Moontrap on Blu-ray from Amazon.co.uk
Buy Moontrap on Blu-ray from Amazon.com
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