SATURN 3 (1980)
Starring Farrah Fawcett and Kirk Douglas
Fawcett and Douglas are a pair of lovers on a space station whose privacy is invaded by Harvey Keitel, a space-travelin' bad guy a sex-starved robot named Hector. Actually Keitel is established early on as being a major nutcase, who kills a fellow space traveler in order to visit the distant outpost known as Saturn 3, where only Douglas and Fawcett work. Thanks to an eclipse that prevents any communication from reaching Saturn 3, the two researchers can't discover that Keitel (who claims to be there to assist the two) is not what he seems, and that his robot is quite evil.
When this was released, the big marketing push was the ability to see Fawcett topless onscreen for the first time. Fawcett, of course, was famous for starring in "Charlie's Angels" and being the subject of the most popular pin-up poster of the 1970s. These days she'll take her clothes off at the drop of a hat, but in 1980 she was too cool for that. It took a real hunk like Kirk Douglas to give her the inspiration, and even then audiences would only get a a quick glimpse.
Keitel is pretty good as the evildoer, whose come on's to Fawcett are disastrous. He feeds his own consciousness into his robot, until it too starts getting a crush on the Charlie's Angel. The possibilities of something like this seem endless, but the movie never explores them.
The film was panned when it was released. Some today look back on it as a possible inspiration to Cameron's "Terminator" series. It does have its moments, but the fact that there were only two people at the station takes away for any chance of a "body count," something that any horror film of this nature needs. We're left with the mutilation of a dog to try to keep the suspense going.
Worth catching as an oddity from the era of "Alien," but not much else.