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Moontrap is a american film of genre Science fiction released in USA on 28 april 1989 with Walter Koenig
Moontrap (1989)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 28 april 1989
Length 1h32
OriginUSA
Themes Space adventure films, Sur la Lune, Films set in the future, Films about extraterrestrial life, Space opera, Sur la Lune, Films about extraterrestrial life, Alien invasions in films, Disaster films
Rating48%
Moontrap is a 1989 science fiction film from Magic Films. Written by Tex Ragsdale and directed by Robert Dyke, it was released on April 28 at WorldFest Houston. A comic book adaptation, featuring the movie's production notes, was released on the same year by Caliber Comics. The cast features Walter Koenig, Bruce Campbell and Leigh Lombardi as a group of astronauts — Lombardi playing one from the distant past — who face an alien invasion by a race of predatory cyborgs.
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On July 20, 1969, during the last phase of the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon, a robotic eye emerges from the lunar soil and takes notice of the landing module as it takes off. The eye buries itself again.Actors
Walter Koenig
(Col. Jason Grant)
Bruce Campbell
(Ray Tanner)
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