A Satellite containing a secret weapon crashes to Earth. Along with it comes a monster from space. When a young teenage couple are killed by the creature, Detectives Ian McLemore (Charles Napier) and Jerry Merris (Ron Glass) investigate.
McLemore soon suspects the teenagers were killed by a non-human, and his investigation takes him on a terrifying journey filled with alien creatures, and a government cover-up. It was refreshing to see the film depicting an elderly detective (Napier was already 52 at the time) as a sex symbol. They enjoyed showing off his beefy grey chest-hair body, and I wasn't complaining.
While it was nice to see Julie Newmar here, her character, Lady Elaine, was seriously underdeveloped and hardly served any purpose at all. Supposed to be psychic, she was merely stating the obvious. The film would have done perfectly without this character.
There's a romantic interest also in the form of Carla (Ann Turkel), an officer working with McLemore, and I kinda liked there relationship. As for the film's premise, it's hardly new. We've seen this so many times before. Due to a poorly written script and mediocre effects, 'Deep Space' does not rise to the occasion and will not go down as a classic (for me).
Not much thought went into the design of the creatures, as they simply copied the 'Alien' creatures. The film's 'scare music' during the climax was so screeching and annoying that I had to turn the volume way down. Attempts at humour fails most of the times, especially the silly wisecrack one-liners.
'Deep Space' is still an entertaining watch, but there are far better films in the genre.
McLemore soon suspects the teenagers were killed by a non-human, and his investigation takes him on a terrifying journey filled with alien creatures, and a government cover-up. It was refreshing to see the film depicting an elderly detective (Napier was already 52 at the time) as a sex symbol. They enjoyed showing off his beefy grey chest-hair body, and I wasn't complaining.
While it was nice to see Julie Newmar here, her character, Lady Elaine, was seriously underdeveloped and hardly served any purpose at all. Supposed to be psychic, she was merely stating the obvious. The film would have done perfectly without this character.
There's a romantic interest also in the form of Carla (Ann Turkel), an officer working with McLemore, and I kinda liked there relationship. As for the film's premise, it's hardly new. We've seen this so many times before. Due to a poorly written script and mediocre effects, 'Deep Space' does not rise to the occasion and will not go down as a classic (for me).
Not much thought went into the design of the creatures, as they simply copied the 'Alien' creatures. The film's 'scare music' during the climax was so screeching and annoying that I had to turn the volume way down. Attempts at humour fails most of the times, especially the silly wisecrack one-liners.
'Deep Space' is still an entertaining watch, but there are far better films in the genre.