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Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

TERRARIUM is an indie-budget science fiction thriller that was shot in somebody's back yard, so you get an idea of just how cheap it really. The story has a bunch of astronauts crash-landing their spacecraft on an alien planet, where they're trapped and attacked by an alien with glowing red eyes. This single location outing contains laughable production values, cardboard sets, and actors who never have a chance. It's painfully slow to boot, and really has to be seen to be believed.

Twelve astronauts who volunteer to pioneer a colony on a newly discovered planet are awoke from fifteen years of cybersleep after their spaceship crashes on a mysterious planet. Moreover, there's a ferocious and carnivorous simian humanoid beast on board their vessel with them. Writer/director Mike Conway relates the engrossing and entertaining story at a brisk pace, milks plenty of nerve-rattling tension from the claustrophobic opening act, delivers a decent smattering of gore, and stages the thrilling action in the lively and exciting last third with flair and skill. The game no-name cast give acceptable performances, with especially nice work from Tim Daley as the stoic Captain Carl Halsey, Jason Hall as the sarcastic Leonard Parks, Shae Wilson as the feisty Dena Warren, and Conway as the optimistic Wayne Bower. In addition, the plot keeps you guessing throughout about what's really going on, the alien creatures look pretty cool, and the CGI effects are surprisingly passable. Both the fairly polished cinematography and the rousing synthesizer score are up to speed. Plus it's done with a genuine go-for-it enthusiasm and sincerity that's impossible to either resist or dislike. Considering the modest budget, this one's really an impressive piece of genre filmmaking that combines horror and science fiction elements into a solid and enjoyable whole.

because his works actually made the effort to be movies. This, not so much.Most of the movie is the characters waiting around in cryobeds while the monster comes in and eats them. I think that's the whole plot or something...Maybe the writers wanted to do more with it, but the found they could only afford the one set after paying all the actors for the day and renting the gorilla suit...I'm just not seeing what the point to any of it was.Kind of like trying to write out ten lines to fill out a IMDb review when there really isn't ten lines worth of plot to write about.

Boy, I have seen a lot of cheesy and bad movies. Some of them made into brilliant set pieces by the MST3K crew. However, I'm not even sure they could save this one. It really stinks. It looked like it was made for 25 dollars in some guys basement.The acting was appallingly bad. The first 20 minutes in the 'cryo-chambers' was laughable - you could see that the walls were made sheets of cloth or something. I love how the cheese-monster also peeled away the plastic that was the glass sealing in the astronauts for their 15 year voyage.Gilligans Island was more realistic than this absolutely awful grade-Z movie.