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The Creature Wasn't Nice

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The Creature Wasn't Nice
Directed byBruce Kimmel
Written byBruce Kimmel
Produced byEilhys England
Michael S. Landes
Albert Schwartz
StarringLeslie Nielsen
Bruce Kimmel
Cindy Williams
Gerrit Graham
CinematographyDenny Lavil
Edited byDavid Blangsted
Music byDavid Spear
Distributed byAlmi Pictures (VHS)
Release date
United States 1981
Running time
88 min.
CountryU.S.A.
LanguageEnglish

The Creature Wasn't Nice (also known as Naked Space and Spaceship) is a 1981 U.S. motion picture written and directed by Bruce Kimmel. The movie is a comedy farce satirizing extraterrestrial horror movies such as Alien. It stars Leslie Nielsen in a role similar to those in the farical comedies Airplane and Naked Gun. It co-stars Cindy Williams, Gerrit Graham, and Patrick Macnee. It was released on VHS in 1983 under the title Spaceship to emphasize Nielsen's connection to Airplane!, and released on DVD in 1999 to play up the connection to Nielsen's Naked Gun movies.

The movie is a low-budget comedy with simple sets and dialog wrapped around several musical numbers. In one of the scenes, the red slimy one-eyed alien monster performs a lounge-act style musical number called "I Want to Eat Your Face." Williams performs two musical numbers, one solo and one with Kimmel, who had previously appeared with and directed Williams in 1976 in The First Nudie Musical.