Deep Space is a 1988 sci-fi horror film directed by Fred Olen Ray, starring Charles Napier, Ann Turkel and Bo Svenson.

Their superior, Captain Robertson, attempts to dissuade Sandbourn from working with McLemore, as the latter has the reputation of getting involved in dangerous situations from which he always seems to come out unscathed, while his partners seldom live to tell the tale.

When they attempt to return to the crime scene, McLemore and Merris are barred from entering by Military Police members, led by a mysterious suit who points his gun at them.

[4] When he reached out to Anthony Eisley, the actor was shocked to learn that B-movie connoisseur Ray had cast him because he had loved him in The Mummy and the Curse of the Jackals, which he considered one of his worst films.

While they pushed for more similarities with Alien in some areas, they also ordered the addition of a military conspiracy against Ray's wishes, making the monster a man-engineered bioweapon rather than an actual extraterrestrial, as was the case in the original screenplay.

[7] The additional sessions took seven days and required building new sets, as well as filming five different endings that the producers could chose from, which the notoriously frugal helmer regarded as needless spending.

[4] Sirius employee T. Dow Albon mentioned finding Ray's directorial approach rather unorthodox, as he shot the monster's chainsaw death scene despite some close-ups still being scheduled for the next day.

The disc was struck from a new master made by rightholders MGM, and includes a feature-length audio commentary from director Fred Olen Ray.

VideoHound's Sci-Fi Experience was not impressed, calling the picture an "Alien rip-off" with an "exceptionally stupid cop hero", pointing that "[s]ome humorous moments try to keep one from thinking too hard about how much the monster resembles H.R.

"[15] James O'Neill, author of the book Sci-Fi on Tape, deemed the film to be little more than a remake of Ray's earlier Biohazard with a higher budget, writing that the creature was "described as a giant roach but actually looks like an H. R. Giger reject."

"[16] The BBC's RadioTimes Guide to Science Fiction was moderately favorable, giving the film three star and writing that "[p]rolific hack director Fred Olen Ray assembles another cast of trash icons for his most expensive offering to date ($1.5 million) and, for once, manages to craft a halfway decent Alien rip-off.

"[17] John Stanley, author of The Creature Features Movie Guide, deemed that "[l]ow-budget director Fred Olen Ray rises above his previous programmers, for this sci-fi/horror meringue is well handled and the screenplay [...] has good characters and dialogue."

[18] In a retrospective review, Brian Ordorf of Blu-ray.com found the film serviceable, writing that "Napier is fun to watch, along with the rest of the cast, but creepiness is certainly not there for Ray, who seems happy just to piece together a coherent picture with multiple creature encounters.