Ah, space.  You hold so many mysteries.  Trillions of stars in a nigh-infinite field–and for all we know, possibly infinite outright.  Is it any wonder we constantly send up vessels of exploration, and that our writers are relentlessly enamored with you?

Thus, we set up Plaguers, a movie that will take us back into the depths of space to make it a little scarier.

Plaguers revolves around a group of starfarers who are on their way home to a fuel starved Earth, carrying precious cargo–a load of the superfuel known for some reason as Thanatos.  But the ship carrying the Thanatos, the Pandora, gets a distress signal from the Diana, a seemingly derelict vessel with just a bit of life left on it.  But what’s waiting on the Diana is a whole lot more than the Pandora crew bargained for…and when a few errant drops of Thanatos gets involved, well, all bets are off.

For those of you who find all this just a little bit familiar–the Alien series, Event Horizon, Lifeforce, and so on–you’re not alone.  The question that remains is, is low budget knockoff specifically bad?

In this case, no, not really.  Of course, it’s not specifically good, but not specifically bad either.  Plaguers will turn out to be a silly, bloody romp that doesn’t exactly deliver on coherent plot but should at the very least entertain.  If you’re one of those types who can’t get enough monster movie mayhem, then put on some popcorn because this is JUST what you’ve been waiting for.

Meanwhile, most everyone else will shrug and give an audible meh to this low budget knockoff.

The Screenhead Ten Scale recognizes the appeal here, but still, can’t give it any too high a score.  But for being sheer fun, this one gets a six out of ten.