Creature (1985 film)

Creature (also known as The Titan Find and Titan Find) is a 1985 American science fiction horror film directed by William Malone, starring Stan Ivar, Wendy Schaal, Lyman Ward, Annette McCarthy, Robert Jaffe, Diane Salinger, and Klaus Kinski.

[2] Two geological researchers for the American multinational corporation NTI find an ancient alien laboratory on Titan, the largest moon of Saturn.

Two months later, the geologists' spaceship crashes into the space station Concorde in orbit around Earth's Moon, its pilot having died in his seat.

Its crew, consisting of Captain Mike Davison, Susan Delambre, Jon Fennel, Dr. Wendy H. Oliver, David Perkins and Beth Sladen, is accompanied by the taciturn security officer Melanie Bryce.

While in orbit, the crew locate a signal coming from the moon—the distress call of a ship from the rival West German multinational Richter Dynamics.

When they return to their own ship, the Americans find that one of the West Germans, Hans Rudy Hofner, has snuck aboard.

Hofner and Bryce are sent to get some air tanks for the Shenandoah and stand guard over it, while the rest of the crew go over to the Richter ship.

Davison insists that medical officer Oliver examine his head, so Fennel has her accompany him to the engineering quarters to feed her to the creature.

The three survivors formulate a plan to electrocute the creature with the ship's fusion modules, which can only be accessed by going through the engineering quarters.

Dying, Perkins attaches the bomb to the creature and sets a countdown so Davison can jettison it through the airlock.

[1] Due to the tight budget and lack of lead time the crew wasn't able to secure a studio space, so they repurposed an abandoned industrial plant in Burbank, California with filming beginning in June 25 of that year.

[8] In March 2013, director Malone independently re-released Creature on DVD under its initial title of The Titan Find, fully uncut and in widescreen for the first time.

[9] The film, in both its theatrical "Creature" version and the original "The Titan Find" director's cut, was released on Blu-ray by Vinegar Syndrome on November 26, 2021.