The Creature Wasn't Nice

Crew members of the spaceship Vertigo have a confrontation with a man-eating alien creature. ==Cast==

• Leslie Nielsen - Captain Jamieson • Cindy Williams - Annie McHugh • Bruce Kimmel - John • Gerrit Graham - Rodzinski • Patrick Macnee - Dr Stark • Ron Kurowski - The Creature • Paul Brinegar - Clint Eastwood/Dirty Harry • Broderick Crawford - voice of Max the Computer (uncredited) (Crawford's voice doesn't feature in Spaceship/Naked Space - it was replaced.) ==Production==

Bruce Kimmel came up with the idea for the film in 1979 and successfully pitched it to Cindy Williams, with whom he'd worked on The First Nudie Musical. Kimmel based the film on his love of 1950s B-movie sci-fi films such as Target Earth, Tobor the Great and The Angry Red Planet, as well as his distaste for the more extreme horror films that had risen in popularity, such as Friday the 13th and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, calling them "evil" and "despicable" films. Al Schwartz of World Northal Corp (who'd released The First Nudie Musical) optioned the project as his first in-house production, previously having specialized in distributing European films such as Bread and Chocolate and Cousin Cousine. The film's special effects were handled by Magic Lantern Organization, which had also worked on History of the World, Part I and Flicks. ==Reception==

TV Guide gave the film one out of four stars, calling it a "misguided attempt at horror comedy". Cavett Binion, writing for AllMovie, also reviewing the re-cut version, called the film "painfully dull [...] [Patrick Macnee's] hammy performance provides one of the film's few real laughs [...] the lovely soft-shoe number "I Want to Eat Your Face" [provides] the film's other real laugh." Variety reviewed the film under its original title at a public sneak preview in Westwood, calling it "a likeably silly send-up of outer-space horror pix like 'Alien'". ==References==