I N A N I M A T E

I've just watched Inanimate, a movie on Prime. Its a sort of modern Alien/ the Thing mash-up set on an arctic crabbing trawler. It maybe possibly more Thing than anything.

From Alien it has the nodding birds and lots of dripping water. Then of course there's breaking all the safety protocols and bringing an inexplicable object on board because it beeps.

Then there's Lance 'Bishop' Henriksen for its Alien 3 chops and an annoying devious character like Ash - the wining University Professor who wants to take the object back and be its buddy.

On the Thing side we have burning the infected and that old chestnut the exposure question - who is infected and who isn't?

From Alien again we have a makeshift weapon - in Inanimate its a liquid nitrogen gun and very nasty.

In the film there is a clandestine female Russian agent too. Not sure where this fits my Alien/ Thing theory.

As a neat nod towards other creature disaster films we have the ship's name itself, Deep Six and the explosive charges placed round the ship near the end are reminiscent of those in Event Horizon or have I got the wrong flick?

I enjoyed Inanimate. Its not big league E.T. splatter but not bad at all. I'm almost inclined to class it as a tribute rather than a ripoff.

Have you seen it?

Can't imagine there were any toys or collectables!

Have you a favourite Thing/ Alien ripoff?