Within the Rock (1996) (TV)

Director:

Gary J. Tunnicliffe

Writer:

Gary J. Tunnicliffe (writer)

Release Date:

8 June 1996 (USA)

Genre:

Sci-Fi

Plot:

A time of space miners sent to stop a moon's collision course with the earth discover a hibernating creature that soon revives and starts slaughtering them.

Plot Keywords:

Moon | Space | Collision Course | Earth | Miner

Awards:

3 nominations

Cast

Xander Berkeley	...	Ryan
Caroline Barclay	...	Dr. Dana Shaw
Bradford Tatum	...	Cody Harrison
Brian Krause	...	Luke Harrison
Barbara Patrick	...	Samantha 'Nuke em' Rogers
Michael Zelniker	...	Archer
Duane Whitaker	...	Potter
Calvin Levels	...	Banton
Earl Boen	...	Michael Isaacs
Dale Dye	...	General Hurst

MPAA:

Rated R for some scifi violence and gore.

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Australia:M | Finland:K-16 (video premiere) | USA:R | UK:18

Company:

360 Entertainment

Quotes:

Archer: It would come every year and...
Luke Harrison: What?
Archer: Havest them, drag their remains off to...
Luke Harrison: Eat them right?
Archer: Bury them... it was a carrion eater... it ate the dead. So a hundred of their soldiers sacraficed their lives, so that the smell of rotting meat would bring it out. Then they trapped it inthis capsule and set it off into space. Over time rocks attached itself to this device. This whole thing has been one giant solitary floating Alcatraz.
Cody Harrison: Yeah... well now it's time to give it the chair!

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Svengoolie: Within the Rock" (2000)

It's a made for TV sci-fi movie- It's not going to have F/X on the scale of Star Wars

Apparently some people are not used to made for TV movies. Possibly too young- they were everywhere in the late 60's and into the 70's. They do not have a huge F/X budget like Star Wars, Close Encounters of the 3'rd Kind, or Superman, etc. However, Within the Rock is way above the Sci-Fi 'B' movies of the 50's and 60's.

As to the plot, NASA and quite a few world governments are concerned about the possibility of a 'rogue' celestial body impacting our planet. A few years back, an object passed within something like less than a million miles of Earth- on a galactic scale, this is approximately next door. And, let's not forget the extinction level event that occurred 65 million years ago, that left iridium layers that are bigger than any other found on this planet ,and coincidentally occurred when dinosaurs became extinct.

The actors by and large were fine- sci-fi is not Shakespeare. If I wanted to watch Shakespeare, that's what I would be watching.

I liked this movie and recommended it to my sister.