Critters 4
1992 film directed by Rupert Harvey
Critters 4 is a 1992 American science fiction comedy horror film starring Don Keith Opper, Terrence Mann, Angela Bassett and Brad Dourif. It is the fourth installment in the Critters franchise, filmed simultaneously with part three, from February to July 1991. Unlike the first three films, this installment adopts a darker, less-comedic tone, and takes place not on Earth, but on a space station in the year 2045.
Plot
Picking up where the previous film left off, Charlie McFadden is stopped from destroying two Krite eggs by a hologram message from Ug, who tells him the eggs are the last two in existence, and that destroying them would go against intergalactic law. Charlie reluctantly obeys Ug's orders, and goes to place the eggs in a preservation pod that suddenly falls from the sky. Whilst doing so, however, the hatch closes on him and Charlie is launched into space, becoming deep-frozen in the process.
Over a half-century later, in 2045, the crew of the salvage ship RSS Tesla finds the pod in deep space and bring it aboard. The ship is crewed by the shady and lecherous Captain Rick Buttram, along with his eccentric engineer Al "Albert" Bert, pilot Fran, cargo specialist Bernie, and young engineer apprentice Ethan. After reporting their find, the ship gets a communication from Councilor Tetra of TerraCor, who offers Buttram three times the going rate if he brings the pod to a nearby station. The crew accepts, and decide to go to the station, only to find the facility abandoned, with the only sign of life being a malfunctioning central computer named "Angela" that only obeys orders when given the exact opposite instruction.
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