FilmSci-Fi Horror Survival Cosmic & Lovecraftian

Beast in Space1980

Name: Beast in Space
Genre: Sci-Fi Horror, Survival, Cosmic & Lovecraftian
Released: 1980-05-13
Rating: 5.1

Directed by Alfonso Brescia

5.1

Crypt Score

Blended from 2 sources

IMDb 4.0TMDB 4.2

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Year

1980

Runtime

86 min

The premise

In the future the struggle for space superiority has forced humanity to search the cosmos for a rare element called Antallum that is the key ingredient for the construction of neutron bombs. Starship captain Larry Madison and his crew are assigned to retrieve Antallum from the remote planet Lorigon. However, Madison and crew find themselves under the control of a powerful computer on Lorigon that incites everyone to have sex. Some versions feature brief adult scenes shot with body doubles.

Horror Vault's take

Set against a backdrop of interstellar arms races and scarce cosmic resources, Beast in Space follows a starship crew dispatched to a remote planet on a dangerous retrieval mission. What awaits them on the surface is far stranger and more disturbing than any enemy fleet — a sinister force that strips away their agency in deeply unsettling ways. This late-era Italian exploitation entry blurs the line between science fiction spectacle and transgressive horror, leaning hard into its grindhouse roots. Fans of Euro-sleaze and cult oddities will find it a genuinely strange artifact of its era.

Content: Sexual Content (Explicit In Some Cuts), Non-Consensual Sexual Scenarios, Nudity, Exploitation Content