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Offworld: Alien Planet
UK 2024
produced by
Chris Bevan, Dani Britten, Terry Cooper, Andrew Bayliss (executive), Graeme Pinnock (executive), Andrew McDonald (executive), Chris Jones (executive), Ren Shorney (executive), Mark Clerkin (executive), Aimee Hibberd (executive), Stewart Palmer (executive), Mike Whelan (executive) for Black Room Films, Candy Jar Films, CB Media, Skybot Entertainment, PGCI Media
directed by Terry Cooper
starring Danielle Britten, John Varker, Gavin Rand, Amy Rowlands, Chris Josty, Ainsleigh Barber, Bill Bellamy, Pete Kijek, Katerina Clayre, Terry Cooper, Tom Ingham, Dylan Edwards, Macalla Kelsay, Ross O’Hennessy (voice), Dean Harris, Clinton Baysinger
written by Terry Cooper, Chris Lynch, music by Michael Frankenberger, visual effects supervisor: Adrian Sayce
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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Earth is pretty much at its last breath - but that's not too bad news
as humankind has recently found a new, earth-like planet to colonize, and
Captain Jan Lepree (Danielle Britten) is tasked with getting 200 settlers
there with a skeleton crew - and of course, the ship crashes and all the
settlers die in their cryo-chambers, only the crew survives, with one of
them, Carrie (Katerina Clayre) being gravely injured. Now the good news
is, the human outpost is only a three day walk away from our heroes'
position, but the bad news is pretty much everything else, from some
crewmembers unable to stand the strain to Carrie's condition worsening
pretty much by the minute to there being an alien bug bringing the dead
back to life as homicidal zombies to the ship's security officer (John
Varker) desperately trying to gain control of the group, and be it through
mutiniy. And these are all just minor problems compared to what Jan and
company are facing on their way to (supposed) safety ... Despite
its sci-fi premise, Offworld: Alien Planet is basically a psycho
drama, inasmuch as it takes its futuristic set-up merely as a very
skeletal tipping point for almost archaic interpersonal conflicts - and
thanks to clever writing it really does well at that, in a way proving
that not earth is doomed (as detailed in the opening narration) but
actually humankind. And a directorial effort that nicely blends the
futuristic and the archaic, and a very able ensemble cast, this story is
brought to life quite nicely, too, making this one pretty cool piece of
science fiction cinema.
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Robots and rats,
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Tales to Chill
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