Tripulantes perdidos en el espacio
2023 · 10m · Venezuela
Directed by Rony Salten
Genres: action, horror, sci-fi
Four astronauts are sent into space on a mission because Earth is contaminated by a lethal virus that turns ordinary people into its victims. They must find the cure and fight all kinds of creatures transformed by the virus.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
Lost in Space ripoff with infected creature combat—solid genre competence, but there's nothing here that makes me lean forward and ask *why* this story needed to be told this way; it's the sci-fi horror action checklist executed, not subverted.
A respectable B-movie premise with clear narrative scaffolding, though the film inherits rather than interrogates its lineage—feels closer to streaming filler than the kind of formally considered work that justifies the ten-minute form.
The real discovery here is how Salten gets genuine dread out of minimal resources and creature design—there's a specific tonal choice, maybe in how the virus-transformed beings move or vocalize, that transforms stock sci-fi survival into something genuinely unsettling on a shoestring budget.