![]() Whilst the ship sets look as believable as they are entitled to make them look and the moon’s weather is given the constant wind machine/strobe lighting stage effects, it’s the quality of the monster that is the film’s biggest flaw. Special effects are not Creature’s strongest selling point either. But at least you can actually see what is happening now! However, I write this extra addition in 2022 having viewed a recently remastered blu-ray version and I must say that Creature looks the best it's ever done - really sharp, clear, bright and you can finally see a lot more of the set design, the gore and the creature itself. The end result is a low budget film which looks even lower budgeted than it was (about $4m which wasn't too bad for 1985). The cinematography is fairly incompetent here - either William Malone had no idea what to put in the frame or director of photography Henry Matthias knew nothing about lighting. A lot of the scenes are badly lit and whilst the film attempts to convey the sense of darkness on the moon, it doesn’t make for a great watch when you need to squint to see what is going in on some scenes. Grainy VHS copies with dark pictures and crackling sounds never really helped a film which needed little assistance to look cheap and nasty. Creature had suffered pretty badly over the years and whilst it’s always been in print in the UK, the quality of the transfers had been atrocious. ![]()
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