The movie stars Christian Slater (Col. Gerard Brauchman), Brendan Fehr (Dr Lance Krauss), Amy Matysio (Ava Cameron) and Michael Therriault (Bruce Johns) as astronauts stranded in a moon base after a meteor shower strucks their base, disables their communications equipment and damages the integrity of their base.
The problem starts when Cameron volunteers to fix the damaged ventilation system and picks up a meteor rock. Upon analysis by Dr. Krauss, he discovers that the innermost structure of the rock contains spores of an alien life-form. In the process of conducting research on the spores, Cameron suffers a cut from a test tube containing the spores. Fearful of being quarantined, she keeps this incident to herself. Eventually she suffers hallucinations and within a twenty-four hour period becomes pregnant and gives birth a an aline life-form which eventually escapes and kills Bruce Johns, also taking on his physical form. In the battle to contain the alien life, Dr. Krauss gets killed by the said life form after being trapped in an segregating chamber. In the struggle to escape from the moon base, Col. Brauchman is wounded by the alien life-form and together with Cameron, fails to get into the escape pod. The alien life-form however is able to get into the escape pod and launches himself out of the moon base into earth. Brauchman tries to send a message to Earth to terminate the pods passenger, to no avail as the alien life-form has already assumed a new menacing, semi-human form.
The movie was obviously on a low budget, with the moon base set clearly miniaturized. Poor job was done making the external view of the base look more realistic and not some sort of mega-toyland. The plot was not that exciting as the movie was based on Cameron basically trying to prove to the rest of the crew that she gave birth to some sort of a creature, although initially she was indeed hallucinating about many things. Acting was ok, but what can you expect, the story did not allow the actors to do more with their characters. For a sci-fi movie, I would rate the movie a C-. Alien effects were basic and "used."
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