Four isolated astronauts in the lunar mining base Ark suffer a meteor storm. Colonel Gerard Brauchman sends Ava Cameron to repair a wing that is full of carbon monoxide. Dr. Lance Krauss warns that the gas may cause paranoia and hallucinations. While inspecting the damage caused by the meteors, astronaut Ava Cameron discovers spores contained in one of the fragments and brings them back to the base for investigation and Dr. Krauss finds that there are spores attached to the meteor. Ava accidentally cuts her finger in a sample but she hides the cut from the doctor. Soon Ava gets pregnant and delivers an alien offspring. Brauchman and Kraus believe that Ava is delusional. The offspring bites the crewman Bruce Johns and produces a clone of him.
[Blu-ray Review] "Stranded" is far from the worst of its kind, but this is still pretty uninspired moviemaking with nothing original or different to separate it from the pack.
It's bad enough to have one film seemingly determined to sit down and nap between gore shots, but there's a promise made at the end of the feature that more time with this aimless material is near.
Rote, declamatory representations of paranoia, fear, delusion and counter-attack get cycled through in this movie, whose title just describes how viewers will feel in its 88-minute grasp.
Sometimes an earnest, easily forgettable B-movie is just what you're looking for. But rarely do you feel like spending 12 bucks to see it - especially when that appears also to be the film's entire budget.
If you're looking for a low budget, greatest hits collection of some of the best science fiction of all time then I'm sure you'll love Stranded. That is if the filmmakers could even do blatant mimicry correctly.
When the opening action sequence ends, you expect the film to back up or at least circle around eventually and tell us who these people are, and it never does.
