Just like 'Star Wars' spawned countless intergalactic battle knockoffs (even worse than the Star Wars Holiday Special), the movie 'Alien' apparently spawned a lot of fugitives trapped in space with psychotic aliens, androids, entities, pirates, used car salesmen... you get the drift.

Basically here's the plot which would do both Dr. Forrester and his mother, Pearl proud:

Apparently somewhere out in space, Dr. Daniel, and his shy, cumbersome assistant, Max, conduct 'illegal' experiments with androids, and I don't mean forcing them to watch bad movies with some guy shot into space neither (after all, this sort of thing wouldn't occur for another decade or so..).

Anyway, before you can say, 'Let's go to the Honeycomb Hideout,' three fugitives from the law show up and crash the party. One happens to be female, whom Max is smitten. While one has serious anger management issues, and the other is paranoid, and you know THAT always GOES WELL in these type situations.

Anyhoo, as you'd expect, a lot of bizarre killing and fun stuff occurs with the Space Police arriving and with the most inexplicable ending that makes 'Santa Claus and the Ice Bunny' appear quite normal.

So why should RiffTrax take a sonic riffdriver with this film? Three reasons:

(1) The bizarrely-unintentional hilarious scenes: Case in point, when Max is learning about the birds and the bees from the space station's computer: the computer shows an image of a male and female, and as it's describing love between them, the images bump nipples as if that helps the process. Another comes from the fact one of the fugitives becomes psychotic at the drop of a hat. Seriously, as the group lands on the space station, though he pretends him and his crew are lost travelers (like ANYONE'S going to BUY that!), he's already plotting to off Dr. Daniel and Max and take over the station. While the other just gets paranoid over every little thing, and the females the only single person of the group who is sane.

1. How this film can take a relatively simple plot, then turn it into an incomprehensible space opera. Seriously, the movie does lull you into a false sense of security that this will be an exciting space adventure, but instead goes into this inexplicable thing about these fugitives bickering, until they get picked off one-by-one. And you actually root for their deaths just to get the plot moving along.

2. The strange ending which only leaves you wondering what in heck did you just watch. Not to tip off the ending itself, but about several minutes into the film itself, you'll realize something's not quite right with Max. And do you kind of predict what happens with the female android Max and Dr. Daniel. But then comes all these twists with makes you wonder if this was directed by a young M. Night Shamalyan.

Overall, this was one of the funner sci-fi knockoffs, because it really does go off the deep-end in plot and acting, not to mention the fact that you don't really see a lot of futuristic sci-fi killing in this.

To demonstrate what I'm talking about here's a link of the full film from YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNG-jLnlQDA