The film concerns about a team of astronauts assigned to save the outer space starship crew from a far planet . The astronauts become threatened by a weird , vicious life force as well as indiscreet , slimy aliens that embark upon a killing spree in the base and spaceship . They are unexpectedly devoured by hungry , vicious aliens intent on picking off the astronauts one by one . And an ominous monster in the form of a giant worm ; it is , in fact , a carnivorous , ominous maggot and is enormously spooky when the large slug eats a beautiful nude scream girl or when another young woman explodes . The picture contains an interesting twist at the ending.

It's a formula terror space film with tension , shocks , grisly horror , including some decent scares , graphic gore abounds and results to be quite entertaining . A lot of the special effects shots involving live actors combined with matte paintings and miniatures were done in camera . At the movie appears known actors with a future long career : The recently deceased Edward Albert (Butterflies are free) , Robert Englund (Freddie Kruger) , Zalman King (a notorious director of erotic films) , Ray Walston (famed comedy actor) and Grace Zabriskie (famous secondary actress) and Sid Haig (usual as baddie and blaxploitation genre) , the latter asked Roger Corman if he could play Quuhod as a near mute instead Corman agreed and let Haig portray Quuhod with almost no dialogue as Haig only says a single line in the whole movie . The visual production design by subsequently successful James Cameron creates a vivid sense of claustrophobic doom , enhanced further by the eerie musical score .

This disturbing and dark film was produced by Roger Corman with his New Word Pictures and tensely directed by B.Clark who managed to create shocks , generous violence and exciting horror sequences . According to Roger Corman , the film was budgeted at approximately $700,000 . The film went into production in the spring of 1981 at the Hammond Lumber Co. lot in Venice, CA, where New World's studio facilities were located. Additional sets , including the surface of the planet and the exterior of the pyramid , were built at a soon-to-be demolished Bekins Storage facility . David DeCoteau got his first Hollywood movie job working as a production assistant on this film , he was only 18 years old at the time. And followed by ¨Forbidden world¨ by Allan Holzman with Jesse Vint and Scott Paulin . It's a standard terror graphically gory, giving a paranoid dimension and turns out to be an ¨Alien¨ exploitation film , being a sloppy attempt to cash on this hit smash.

Yes, it's the gloriously gross'n'graphic Roger Corman-produced early 80's low-budget sci-fi/horror schlock exploitation classic with THAT scene. You know the one I'm talking about: beauteous buxom blonde babe Taaffe O'Connell gets brutally attacked, raped and killed by a hideous and slimy gigantic libidinous maggot. This terrifically tasteless and unforgettable moment rates highly as the jaw-dropping splatter highlight of the entire picture and has rightfully earned this honey a substantial cult following which it enjoys to this very day. The incredible oddball cast counts as another source of tremendous enjoyment: everyone's favorite Martian Ray Walston, a pre-Freddy Krueger Robert Englund, 90's direct-to-video erotic thriller perennial Edward Albert, the ever-intense and flaky Zalman King (Zippie the Abbie Hoffmanesque hippie hero of "Blue Sunshine"),bald, hulking trash feature icon Sid Haig (who meets a memorably grisly fate here),Gus Van Sant film regular Grace ("Drugstore Cowboy," "My Own Private Idaho") Zabriskie, and, best of all, even Erin Moran (Joanie on "Happy Days"!),whose repellently nasty death -- she gets disemboweled and explodes! -- is a true treat to behold. Moreover, the special effects are surprisingly good considering the low budget, the atmosphere is potently intense and creepy, the pace hurtles along at a snappy clip, and the blood, gore and gunk is generously poured on by the nauseating bucket. Oh yeah -- and we also got a provocative subtext here about you must confront your deepest, darkest fears head-on in order to overcome them and acquire real power in life for all you devout seekers of profoundly meaningful themes in low-grade sleazy movies. Tasty trivia tidbit: future heavy duty Hollywood mainstream film director James Cameron worked on the production design and handled second unit director chores, plus a then unknown and struggling pre-stardom Bill Paxton was one of the set decorators (I especially loved the spaceship walls which are obviously McDonald's take-out plates turned inside out and spray-painted some funky gold color!). A simply stupendous piece of totally gnarly cinematic junk.

When i saw the trailer for galaxy of terror i knew it was going to be good,as a roger Corman produced b-movie it is a wild ride.sort of like alien on a lower budget.it stars Eddie Albert Jr.zalman king,Sid haig, ray walston(my favorite martian)Robert englund(nightmare on elm street) Erin Moran(Joanie on TV's happy days)and grace zabriskie(twin peaks) its bizarre science fiction horror about a group of space travelers on a rescue mission encountering terrors of all sorts,a women is raped by a giant worm,now thats bizarre.James Cameron was involved in the production.critics bashed this and it was one of the movies on the DVD 50 worst movies of all time,sorry i don't agree.its the best of the alien rip offs.7 out of 10