when a friend give me a boxed set of 12 amazing scifi or horror movie . i be understandably a little cautious . but and since the item be a gift and i really do not truly pay my common sense much heed . after all . movie for free . so what if they be a little ropey . after much consideration and alien intruder be the first of those movie . ironically and it be first choice because it look the best of the bunch . all i can say be and if this be the best of them and i shudder to think what the rest be like . on the surface and it have some good thing go for it . four ( count em . ) actor that i be familiar with . billy dee williams and tracy scoggins and maxwell caulfield and jeff conaway . i tell myself . billy and tracy have be in some good scifi ( star war and babylon 5 and respectively ) so they wouldn not sign up for a turkey . max be a veteran soap actor who never really manage to break into film . but not too shoddy an actor . an jeff . well . he do the good and the bad as far a film and tv go . i be soon to discover that jeff have decide to add the ugly to his repertoire of movie . the first clue be in the opening scene . jeff mug his way with gusto through an i be mad scene before finally kill himself . an amusing cameo performance and really . unfortunately this be and without much exaggeration and the highlight of the film . it go downhill from there . next up we have the commander of the mission ( williams ) who be be send out to see what happen to jeff and his crew busy pick his new shipmate from among the rank of the criminal element . but this assortment aren not so much the dirty dozen more like the unconvincing foursome . plus and one of the crims and a computer hacker and be show in his cell work away on a laptop computer . isn not that a bit like let a murderer run a gun shop in the slammer . pretty lame prison and if you ask me . when they finally take off the effect be truly horrible . it look like the spaceship model be knock up in an afternoon by some bore 8 year old who have part leave over from his airfix kit . but the horror doesn not stop there . whilst on route to the area where jeff ship vanish and the criminal crew be reward for their good behaviour by be give weekend of virtual reality and in which they indulge their male fantasy . all well and good and and the use of scene from their fantasy serve a an introduction to the alien menace which begin to appear there . but do they have to drag it out for quite sooooo loooooong . alien intruder . alien boring and more like . finally they make it to g sector and the alien presence make them fight against each other for her affection until only good old max be leave . the end and in truly optimistic rubbish film vein and hint at a sequel a if . also make an appearance in this movie be a character i will nickname the sweatdroid . he suppose to be an android and but apparently that fact be lose on the make up crew and who provide him with sweaty feature at any opportunity . but do not worry and he just there to make up the body count number at the end . williams and scoggins and to be truthful and do very little in the film . they only just barely stay awake and let alone act . and and a i mention earlier and jeff get an early trip to the shower and so his manicness isn not allow to enlighten much of the film . max try his best and as do a couple of the other cast member and but the movie be just direly atrocious and to be honest . the one and and only and half way imaginative thing this movie offer be the ship naming convention . they be all name after musician holly and presley and joplin . the rest of the film be bland and uninspired . make in 1992 and i have think and on initial viewing and it be one of those 80 straight to video job . look like they still make crap movie well into the 90 and it seem . it best avoid . even a a beer n chip movie this film be a stinker and but at least you can fast forward it and i suppose .