Saturday, June 20, 2026

Tonight's Stinker: The Killings at Outpost Zeta (1980)

Tonight's Stinker The Killings at Outpost Zeta (1980) https://youtu.be/cA9M5sjFnt4?si=ToKs5JbYchwFhcMp In the future, an uptight group of control room operators in red pajamas are trying to contact a rescue team on a distant planet..... This is the third rescue mission to fail after contact was lost with a research station on the planet..... So anyway, the planet is a critical launching point to exploring the rest of the universe, so naturally, a fourth suicide mission is assembled..... So, six astronauts in red pajamas are briefed, fly off & go over procedural mumbo jumbo.... They find a distress beacon with a warning not to come to the planet, but they go anyway... Once on the planet, they find the bodies of the research crew & rescue missions in various stages of decay, with mysterious rock in them.... Then, in a pretty stupid "DON'T GO IN THERE" scene, one of the crew is killed, & well, y'know..... Alarms start to go off, the crew starts to get unconvincing cabin fever.... Looks to be a halfway decent VHS rip.... The audio is pretty bad, & it doesn't help that a couple of the actors tend to mumble.... The space suits are basically motorcycle helmets with hoses, & the ray guns look like dime store novelties, but the rest of the sets & props look passable..... Some scenes go to black like they're supposed to be going to a commercial break.....

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