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« on: August 02, 2006, 10:29:52 AM »

(Note: I'm really glad I managed to find the Engrish subtitles in the all-Japanese setup menus.)

I thought this was an alternate title for the movie Alien 2: On Earth, aka Alien on Earth, aka Aliens 2: On Earth, etc., etc.  It was not.  It was a hentai, tentacle rape, space monster movie.  Fortunately for me, and surprisingly, the emphasis turned out to be on the space monster and not the tentacle rape.

The spaceship Muse (not Muze, as the subtitles insist) picks up a distress call on their way home from a mineral survey of some planet or another.  The Muse is crewed strictly by women for reasons which are never explicated.  All of them seem to be lesbians, too, except for our heroine Hikari.  I assume her pet ferret is also not a lesbian.

The distress call is from the cargo ship Zogne.  Our intrepid gals explore the Zogne and find many, many dead bodies.  The male bodies have been dessicated, almost skeletonized.  The female bodies are covered in green goo.

(It was when they discovered the first goo-drenched, dead woman that I finally realized this was going to be a hentai film, and what kind of hentai film it would be.  The box art was nodescript and the text was all in Japanese.  Anyway ...)

There is only one survivor, a woman named Flair, pronounced FLAY-er, perhaps as a subtle clue for English-speaking viewers.  The Muse's crew takes her out of cryo-sleep and transplants her to their own medical bay.

Captain Sara decides that the Zogne is bad news and orders it destroyed.  Then she has an abrupt lesbian sex scene with the Muse's doctor.  I cracked up when they brought out the amazing, motorized dildo.  Surely this device is standard equipment on every all-female ship.

Meanwhile, Flair wakes up and has a lesbian sex scene of her own with the unfortunate Annie.  The fact that Flair's eyes glow green and have the ability to rip off a woman's clothes made me a little suspicious of her.  My suspicions were confirmed in short order when tentacles erupted from Flair's back and -- Fast Forward just a little bit ...

A little while later, as Annie helps the other women plant explosive charges on the Zogne, she begins barfing green goo.  She barfs so much of it that she drowns in it inside her space suit!  That's ... a really awful way to die.

The Muse leaves the Zogne, with Annie's body aboard, to explode all by its lonesome in space.  The crew deals with the loss of Annie in their own ways.  The butch one, Kess (not Kieth, as the sutitles insist) by lifting weights, the otherwise normal one by jogging, and the petite one by trying to get in the panties of anyone willing.

The movie finally settles on Hikari and her ferret as our protagonists.  Hikari is trying to decode the Zogne's black box to figure out what happened.  With some help from the ship's computer, El, she decripts the black box.

Seems that the Zogne was on a mission to rendevous with the Muse, though Hikari nor anyone else will admit to knowing about it.  It somehow picked up an alien monster that sucked the innards out of all the men and attempted to reproduce with the women.  The alien semen was poisonous to human bodies, however, leading to the emission of and eventual death from the aforementioned green goo.  This monster -- was Flair!  Dun-dun-DUNNNN!

This isn't exactly surprising, since by this time Flair has encountered Kess and -- Fast Forward ...  During a meal, Kess starts acting violently and barfs up a lot of green goo.  She's confined to the medical bay where, inexplicably, the doctor and Captain Sara decide to have sex again, right in front of the sedated and straight-jacketed Kess! (!!!!!!!!!)

Well, Kess isn't going to stand for that, so she barfs up more green goo, tears off the straight jacket and, of course, her shirt, (and, of course, her tits are twice as big as they appeared when she was clothed) and strangles Captain Sara.  Fortunately, there just happens to be a gun right there, and Sara blows a few holes through Kess's torso.

It doesn't do her much good, since Flair shows up and goes full-on monster.  The monster design is quite good, actually.  The monster grabs Sara and the doctor and -- Fast Forward ...

By this time, Hikari has alerted the rest of the remaining crew (one person) and she and the other girl have armed themselves.  In an actually pretty horrific scene, they find the doctor unhinged, barfing green goo, and armed.  I won't tell you what happens to her, but it is mean, gritty, and possibly lower on the list of ways to die than drowning in green goo you barfed into your space helmet.  (Hint: this is a SPACE movie)

For the next few minutes, Hikari and the other girl play cat-and-mouse with the monster.  They find Captain Sara in a cargo room.  She's barfing green goo.  The monster catches them and Captain Sara throws herself to it so Hikari and other girl can escape.  The monster grabs her and -- Fast Forward ...

Hikari and the other girl find Petite Girl (damned if I remember her name) in the cargo hold trying to make off with something she smuggled from the Zogne.  It's a cache of a biological weapon that destroys the human immune system.  Petite Girl plans to sell it to some terrorist group or another and come out of this sweet.

Ha-ha, but the monster has other plans.  Fast Forward, one last time.  Hikari escapes but the other remaining girl is captured along with Petite Girl.  Hikari decides that the monster must die, so she loads a dart gun with the bio-weapon and reenters the cargo hold.  (Uh, Hikari, what makes you think it will affect the monster?)  The monster grabs her before she can draw but there's no need to fast forward.

Hikari's ferret comes to the rescue and bites a big chunk out of the monster's penis!

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!-breathe-AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Ok, where was I?

This allows Hikari the opportunity to shoot the poison dart right down the hole in the tip of the monster's penis, after which its penis explodes!

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!-breathe-AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Sorry, where was I?

The monster's immune system fails, or something, because it begins barfing green goo!  Poetic justice, sucker!  Hikari leaves the cargo hold and jettisons the monster into space.  (What?!  She could have done that the whole time?!)

The movie ends with Hikaru mourning her dead sister, whom I guess was the last girl to die, and feeding her ferret.  Well, actually, it ends after the credits but that ending is depressing and unsatisfactory, so I choose the first ending, instead.

As you can tell, Alien From the Darkness is a paint-by-numbers space monster movie ... with tentacle rape.  But it's a pretty good paint-by-numbers space monster movie.  It sustains a mood of absolute doom throughout.  The alien is fairly nifty and its, er, action scenes are well-staged.  The rapes are all pretty horrific rather than erotic.

The movie also has a very nasty edge, but nasty in the way of a good horror movie rather than in the way of a mean-spirited porno movie.  The horror of what must have happened on the Zogne is conveyed especially well.  Each and every death is palpably awful, as befits a movie like this.  Even after death, there are still some rough fates in store for a couple of the girls' bodies.

Watching it, I got the idea that someone wanted to make a monster movie but could only sell their idea to a hentai studio.  The pornographic elements really do take a backseat to the monster movie.

The art, character design, mechanical design, and animation are very high calibur for a hentai cheapie.  The girls all have distinct personalities, too, and the voice acting is really quite good.  I also thought it was a nice touch for the movie to include a consensual, positive sex scene.

I can't recommend this to everybody, of course, but if you can look past seeing the orifices of animated women being plundered by a space-monster's tentacles, you'll find yourself watching a pretty good monster movie.

Plus, at only 45 minutes, it doesn't even come close to wearing out its welcome.
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« Reply #1 on: August 03, 2006, 10:39:14 PM »

When I started to get into anime I always saw this when I went to the anime section at a video store. Always wanted to see but it looked like typical hentai. I might check it out now.
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« Reply #2 on: August 04, 2006, 12:41:44 AM »

Akiratubo, you actually watched tentacle Hentai for the plot???!!? You may be the only one in creation to do that.
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« Reply #3 on: August 04, 2006, 12:18:23 PM »

I once went on a quest to find a porno flick with a plot.  It scarred me for life.....
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