Roulette One is a flying luxury casino filled with millionaires and a casino manager who plans on robbing them thanks to his computer programmed to cheat. But then the plane flies through a cloud and everyone on board starts to either become a monster or become eaten by those monsters.

If anyone else made this movie, I’d be calling out how much of it rips off The Thing, Alien and maybe even The Langoliers. Instead, it’s an Alvaro Passeri movie and I’m celebrating it.

Soon, the crew of Carol (Sinne Mutsaers), Janet (Basia Wajs), Don (Eric Bassanesi) and Pat (Giulia Bernardini) are dealing with alien monsters that explode out of people and I’m loving every moment on this CGI-generated plane. And by CGI, I mean everything looks unreal beyond belief. And then Janet has an alien literally crawl between her legs and impregnate her.

I’ve never even considered a movie made with Amiga-level computer animation that has mini-golf on a luxury jet and chess that people bet on. Everything looks soft and brightly colored, like candy that I can’t wait to let my eyes devour. There are also so many lens flares.

Why do they have a flamethrower on this plane? Actually, of all the questions I have, that’s the simplest one. The big one is who are these movies for outside of Passeri? Every one of his films is so idiosyncratic and outright strange and not in the way that says, “Look how wacky I am!” They are absolutely earned strangeness, pure joy captured and ready to reach those ready for it.

Also: Every review that I read where people talk about how bad this movie is or how horrible the effects are, I don’t get mad. I feel bad for these people. I am saddened for them and their lack of imagination and aesthetics.

I also totally appreciate that of all the things that Passeri has ripped off for this movie, the ending of Nightmare City is one of them.

You can watch this on YouTube.