The crystals. WTF?
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doctorbiobrain2005 — 18 years ago(January 23, 2008 08:15 AM)
Well maybe you consider being raped by a maggot to be a walk in the park, but that kind of beep keeps me up at night. You can bet I don't leave old meat lying around on the floor anymore after seeing that movie. As for Freddy Krueger, he had an entire movie series based on how scary he is. So it just makes sense that he'd be his own worst nightmare. Think about it!
And like I said, I don't see what's so complicated about this. They all feared the thing that killed them and so there was no reason it needed to be explained. Honestly, if at some point in the movie that chick had said "I sure hope a giant maggot doesn't rape me to death, because that's my biggest fear," you probably would have laughed. Because it wasn't necessary. You saw the death and that explained everything. Their deepest fear was the thing that killed them, end of story.
And please do not question the wisdom of the Master or I will be forced to destroy you. He did what was necessary and nothing more should be said. If the Master thinks an insane woman should lead a rescue mission to another galaxy, then he knows what he's doing. Besides, Cabren lived because he was "too scared to be" afraid. And that's how we should all be if we want to deal with our own fears: Too scared to fear them. That's the lesson I got out of it, anyway. I guess that's why I haven't been raped by the maggot yet. -
KevBaby — 15 years ago(October 13, 2010 08:50 AM)
There might have been a handy backstory on the crystals within the dialogue that Sid Haig refused to speak? They seemed underexplained but apparently they were not only his weapon and tool but some sort of religion for him.
Nifty how part of a crystal slid up under the skin of his arm. Reminded me of the Bruce Campbell scene in Brain Slasher/Mindwarp where some water dwelling slug thingies did similar. But the similarity would only freak me out if Galaxy Of Terror had an aka that was identical to the name of the abovementioned. -
blcmitchell — 11 years ago(May 24, 2014 11:12 AM)
I stayed up late with my brother about 25 years ago watching this movie on TV at our Grandmother's house. The 'crystals up the arm' scene has been stuck in my head ever since. Just recently re-discovered this movie on Netflix.
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Lance_Burton — 12 years ago(June 09, 2013 11:42 AM)
It reminded me of a scene in The Mummy, were the guy in the tomb is looting gold encrusted scarabs, one of those scarabs breaks free and crawls under his skin entering his brain. It happens 2 times in that movie, perhaps The Mummy ripped that idea from this wonderful movie.
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sunphoenix_72 — 11 years ago(May 08, 2014 10:14 AM)
I think it was an upspoken {sadly} understanding that his crystals were indeed sort of a religion.. I alwyas though of him being something of a martial artist part of an order of crystal wielders who viewed their crystals sort of like how a samurai views his Daisho [ Katana & Wakizashi ] but it would have been much cooler to get to so him use them a time or two to show how bad-ass he likely was with them - then give us some of that back story concerning them perhaps in an 'aside' to one of the characters asking the main hero guy about the crystals. I think it would be awesome if someone remade this movie adding in that kind of backstory to the characters modernizing the special effects and all!
I was WAAAAAAY too young to watch this movie when I first saw it in the movie theatre had to leave the theatre before the end of it! It scared the hell out of me!
Great cult classic!