A salvage crew boards a research ship where an alien intelligence has developed an invasive approach to recycling human beings. The story borrows freely from other shipboard nightmares, but the biomechanical practical creations give the derivative mayhem a satisfyingly unpleasant weight.
Nominated by @flabbergasted_jones
The club’s verdict
Acting
7/10
Plot
8/10
Effects
3/10
Dialogue
6/10
Rewatchability
6/10
“The ship's recycling policy has become far too personal.”
@flabbergasted_jones, scored it 60
Synopsis and movie facts
When the crew of an American tugboat boards an abandoned Russian research vessel, the alien life form aboard regards them as a virus which must be destroyed.