Creature 1985 movie#
The financiers at Trans World Entertainment loved the idea and Malone's movie was given theĬuriously enough, Malone was being advertised in a March, 1984 issue of Variety as director of Offering wasn't grisly enough so he pulled out a two page synopsis According to sources at the time, Malone was approached aboutĭoing a similar film to his first excursion into horror, but his initial Had been lying in wait to be produced prior to its filming in June ofġ984. The story of THE TITAN FIND, much like it's Creature in the movie, THE TITAN FIND, or as it's more well known theatrically and on video as CREATURE, takes additional cues from THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD (1951), FORBIDDEN PLANET (1956), IT CONQUERED THE WORLD (1956), and Mario Bava's PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES (1965) but more on that later. Technically speaking, ALIEN, as good as it is, was a glossier, more expensive clone of IT! THE TERROR FROM BEYOND SPACE (1958). The timing was just perfect considering how STAR WARS (1977) had changed audience perception of what a movie could deliver. With 4.2 million dollars to play with, it's still a relatively low budget affair, but one with many assets to make it one of the more creative SciFi-Horror films to follow in the wake of Ridley Scott's ALIEN (1979).ĪLIEN really changed the landscape for science fiction and horror by blending the two in a way that hadn't been done before.
William Malone's second feature after SCARED TO DEATH (1981) is another monster movie, and a far more ambitious one.
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