Leofwine_draca Even good old boy Wes Craven has associated himself with some rubbish in the past, and, it seems, present. If you've ever wanted to see a film which rips off ALIEN to the extreme, with the monster hiding in air vents, then don't even bother watching this one - try THE TERROR WITHIN instead, it's more fun. It hurts me to say that Lance Henriksen appeared in this film, and I really like him as an actor as well.A group of scientists inject a dying soldier with a drug which makes his muscles bulge, his tongue become pointed and his ears and hair fall off. He's called Thor, and he eats human brains. The monster is so laughable as to be totally unscary. He looks like some kind of lunatic wrestler, and even bears a passing resemblance to Yul Brynner. The film is your standard "walk around in the dark and get killed off one by one" affair, detracted by some dingy camera-work, uninspiring sets and possibly the most annoying person ever seen in a film (if you don't count that transvestite in THE FIFTH ELEMENT) in the character of Henriksen's son, who spends the film listening to heavy metal music and acting like a total loser. This is one of those actors who plays the same role in every film, anyone catch him in THE X-FILES? Don't bother.As if things couldn't get any worse, there are a number of ludicrous multiple endings where Thor comes back from the dead for one last attack...and another attack...and another attack. At this point I was praying for the film to end, my finger was hovering over the fast forward button and I was crying with relief in anticipation of the closing credits. But still it went on and on and on and on! My goodness, don't watch this garbage if you value your sanity.

Rautus The Outpost (Mind Ripper) is an entertaining movie, I liked the creepy look for the base and since it's kind of an Alien clone it needs a creepy place. The plot sees a group of scientists in a research Outpost in the desert find a young man half dead in an accident, they take him in and inject him with a virus they've been working on which should make him stronger. After a while the virus begins to take affect since his hearing is more sensitive and his body is becoming stronger and after the scientists try to help him he breaks out killing one of them, they then try to find him before he kills them meanwhile a scientist who used to work for them (Played by Lance Henriksen) goes to the Outpost with his son, daughter and her boyfriend to check on them but soon find themselves being hunted by the creature, with the the Outpost's doors locked they try to escape with the help of the scientist that didn't get killed by the creature. But the creature is after them and won't stop until he eats their brains.The acting was fine and the scenes with the creature's tongue going through his victims was kind of gross, you also feel a bit of sympathy for the creature since he doesn't know what happened to him and he has no choice but to feed on brains. The Outpost is defiantly something to watch on a night. 10/10

Vomitron_G Call me easy to please, but I actually kinda liked THE OUTPOST (aka MIND RIPPER). The movie is just average in every sense of the word. It's not original and it never rises above mediocrity. But hell, I'll watch any movie with Lance Henriksen in it, because he's always decent.Once again a military science-project has gone wrong (when will they ever learn?). On a desolate underground outpost in the desert a human is injected with an experimental virus (in order to create the perfect soldier). He then slowly mutates into a killing machine with a craving for human brains. Stockton (Lance Henriksen), who once abandoned the project when the military took over, gets called in to fix the problem. He decides to take along his son, his daughter and her boyfriend.What we get then is your basic ALIEN-plot: a lot of running around in tight hallways, systematically killing off all the scientists and a final battle with the mutant outside the complex. Why did I like it? Ehrr... Lance Henriksen is in it... and the mutant-man's spiky tentacle coming out of his mouth to suck people's brains was kinda cool. The make-up effects were all quite good, actually. And then there was the mutant's dream-sequence (I gotta hand it to the film-makers: they got me there!). And what about Giovanni Ribisi? Well, he looked stoned throughout the whole movie (in fact, he always does, even in TV's FRIENDS). But he and Lance were the best actors of the cast. And Natasha Wagner and Claire Stansfield are always nice to look at. Come to think of it: there weren't actually many actors in this movie. Strange, when you consider that it all took place in a scientific/military facility. No security, no dumb soldiers running around, nothing.Whatever, to me this was a nice 90 minutes time-waster with some gory brain-sucking action. Nothing special.

WagonWheelTable I just bought this as part of a Wes Craven DVD box set (along with Scream, The Hills Have Eyes, and The Last House on the Left) and felt ever so slightly conned. The film is not directed by Wes Craven (he has an executive producer credit) and a dream box set would omit this sci-fi B-movie in favour of Nightmare on Elm Street (I would settle for The People Under the Stairs). With that being said, this is an ideal film for watching with a gang of drunk mates after a night in the pub. It's a creature feature in a remote claustrophobic environment and it ticks along quite nicely on a sub-Alien template, taking advantage of all the usual sci-fi horror clichés. The monster is cheap but effective and it is sympathetically played. The rest of the characters are just monster fodder and are badly underwritten, though a father-son theme breaks through to complement the monster-creator theme. Lance Henrikson, the brunette girl in the shower, and the bloke who plays Phoebe's brother in Friends are worth watching. The rest of the cast stink. There are enough gruesome moments to keep a drunken audience's interest. It's also fun ticking off the clichés as they mount up, and laughing at the obvious dialogue. I defy anyone (after a few drinks) not to laugh at the last scene.So not a classic sci-fi horror, but an entertaining mess of a movie with redeeming qualities, best viewed with friends and alcohol.