Moontrap

An ambitious video genre film that would rather dazzle with passages depicted in a DIY manner than with trashy motifs. Its creators were lucky to be sponsored in the production area by Shapiro-Glickenhaus Entertainment, who were even more ambitious in the context of B-movie productions of the time, because Corman, for example, would have thrown them out straightaway with this nerdy display of practical effects. However, the market demanded it, and Moontrap is thus lodged in the memory also due to the eye-catching inclusion of superficial attractions and how the hell to get some nudity and shooting into a sci-fi film about two astronauts. Otherwise, the expected is confirmed, i.e. Bruce Campbell has charisma to burn, while Walter Chekov Koenig is a hopeless bore. However, thanks to the elements described above, Moontrap has a great atmosphere and thus remains a likable and, at its core, original contribution among the naïve, trashy sci-fi movies of the video era. (01/05/2020)

In order for it to be at least above average, something is still missing. The atmosphere could be great, but it's not brought to completion. The trickery is way too simple and the audience may feel somewhat deceived. But in terms of acting, it's interesting and Bruce Campbell definitely pleases, as well as Walter Koenig. However, even with that, it didn't meet the average for me. (11/07/2015)

I won’t have anyone try to tell me that this movie is serious and that it's not a parody that makes fun of B-grade sci-fi flicks the way Evil Dead makes fun of horror movies. Yes, Moontrap reminded me most of Evil Dead - and it wasn't just the presence of Bruce Campbell and the music of Joseph LoDuca. He and the style in which all the scenes with giant and small mechanical aliens were filmed, the serious-looking situations that a single person can turn inside out with a single sentence (a scientist trying to make contact with an alien), the hilarious nonsense, like the inflatable tent on the moon and the sex in it... It was all so wacky that I was entertained in a perverse sort of way. Unlike Evil Dead, it's not as frantic and funny, the second half of the film drags and puts you to sleep, but still... Was Sam Raimi really not involved? Not even a little? I don't believe it. (09/27/2012)