Well, I remember watching the movie back in my childhood, and I remember it as being a rather good sci-fi horror movie. One that definitely left a mark on me, because I recall the rock-like creatures killing people. So as I had the opportunity to sit down in 2021 and watch "The Killings at Outpost Zeta" again, of course I did so.
Turns out that my memory was not as accurate as I wanted it to be, because "The Killings at Outpost Zeta" was not a great movie. It was, at best, a campy low budget space horror sci-fi.
But they were using moon boots and motorcycle helmets, for the love of... And then there were their laser pistols, which were essentially little more than just long hollow tubes.
While "The Killings at Outpost Zeta" had spirit and drive, it wasn't an outstanding movie. And I was actually sort of fearing that my memories of the movie would be a lot better than the movie actually turned out to be. And that was the case. I suppose I should have left it with the good memories.
The acting in the movie was bland, and the wasn't much of any overly great things to experience here as the actors and actresses stumbled through pretty poorly-written dialogue and had a very simplistic storyline to work with, actually.
The creature design was just downright laughable actually. They were rather simplistic and poorly made, if you take a step back and look at it objectively.
And the visuals when the spacecraft was flying around in space was pretty laughable and bad to look at. So "The Killings at Outpost Zeta" doesn't harvest any points for having great visual effects either.
Pretty interesting that three writers could collectively manage to come up with so little. I can't fathom what writers Peter Dawson, Allan Sandler and Robert Emenegger were thinking here.
My rating of the 1980 movie "The Killings at Outpost Zeta" lands on a mere three out of ten stars.
So much for fond memories of a once-thought to be a great horror sci-fi from my childhood, huh?
