The Outpost (Mind Ripper) is an entertaining movie, I liked the creepy look for the base and since it's kind of an Alien clone it needs a creepy place. The plot sees a group of scientists in a research Outpost in the desert find a young man half dead in an accident, they take him in and inject him with a virus they've been working on which should make him stronger. After a while the virus begins to take affect since his hearing is more sensitive and his body is becoming stronger and after the scientists try to help him he breaks out killing one of them, they then try to find him before he kills them meanwhile a scientist who used to work for them (Played by Lance Henriksen) goes to the Outpost with his son, daughter and her boyfriend to check on them but soon find themselves being hunted by the creature, with the the Outpost's doors locked they try to escape with the help of the scientist that didn't get killed by the creature. But the creature is after them and won't stop until he eats their brains.The acting was fine and the scenes with the creature's tongue going through his victims was kind of gross, you also feel a bit of sympathy for the creature since he doesn't know what happened to him and he has no choice but to feed on brains. The Outpost is defiantly something to watch on a night. 10/10

Okay, stop me if you've heard this one before. Your usual bunch of scientists doing morally dubious and ill-advised experiments in a secret subterranean laboratory create a super-strong brain-eating mutant named Thor (handsome, muscular Dan Blom, who's actually quite good) who gets loose and goes on a destructive rampage. Fortunately, the always reliable Lance Henrikson as a bitter, cynical doctor who quit the project a few months ago arrives back on the scene to help save the day. Strangely enough, Henrikson brings along his estranged, rebellious smartaleck metalhead son (a then unknown, pre-stardom Giovanni Ribisi, who's every bit as obnoxious as you think), lusty hottie daughter (the luscious Natasha Wagner, looking mighty fine in skimpy shorts), and the daughter's libidinous tool of a boyfriend (the supremely irritating Adam Solomon). Swell dad, eh? I think you can basically fill in the blanks as to what happens next.All kidding aside, this nifty little low-budget direct-to-vid horror item manages to be a great deal of enjoyably cheesy fun. It's directed with considerable rip-snorting verve by Joe Gayton, with a spooky, rousing, rattling score by J. Peter Robinson, dark, claustrophobic cinematography by Fernando Arguelles, funky make-up f/x by Image Animation, a cool lethal humanoid creature that's both scary and pitiable, and a nonstop breakneck pace. The solid cast do their best with their stock roles: tall, leggy, statuesque brunette beauty Claire Standsfield tackles her Ripley-like two-fisted tough chick heroine part with tremendous lip-smacking gusto while ubiquitous character actor John Diehl jerks it up nicely as the overbearing team leader. Bonus points are in order for the freaky and startling unexpected monster nightmare sequence. Granted, we're not talking work of art here, but this snazzy B-horror flick does the trick just the same in a pleasingly brisk and efficient enough manner.

SPOILER!!!! Mind Ripper hmmmm.... I had just watched the nightmare on elm street movies and had just found out about Giovanni Ribisi. I thought Giovanni Ribisi hadnt done any horrors so I checked into it. I saw "the outpost" (mind ripper) I checked on my Tivo for it. There was an air date on Sci Fi. So I was set. I got my pop corn ready came in and set on the couch and what the hell is this? A freakin bold guy in blue sweat pants running around yelling! Nothing is scary about this movie at all! If anything its funny! Funny how low the budget is, funny how predictable it is, funny how bad the acting is and funny how much money it DIDNT make. Ok giovanni ribisi is a good actor but this movie is dumb. It is so stupid. They killed him at the end and then they go on this plane and the "monster" is on it. They shoot him in the head with a shotgun and it falls a long way to the ground. And-GASP- The killer ending, Its Still Alive! WOOHHH! Scary! woooohhhh! Sucky fat sack of crap waste of 2 hours.Bottom Line: You have somewhere to go and you need to kill some time. Mind ripper isnt the suggestion. I'd rather sit out naked in the snow than watch this movie a second time.OVERALL GRADE: F- - - - - - - - - - (ENTERNAL)

Give them a break. They obviously had a limited budget and they pulled of quite a little non-Alien-rip-off chlostrophobic thriller. Lance Henrickson is a dufuss but this is Giovanni Ribisi's first role so give him a break for the cheesy father-son scenes thrown in a horror movie. 9/10 and an extra * for effort.