Did you ever watch the 1997 movie "Event Horizon"? Well, then you pretty much have the gist of what's going on here. This 1987 OVA pretty much the same basic idea, with a little bit of "Alien"/"Aliens" mixed in for good measure. That's not to imply that one or the other is ripping off the other -- the basic story idea is generic enough I'm sure that if you sat down and thought about it for a while, you could think up some other examples that follow the same trajectory. And, unfortunately, "Hell Target" managesto follow that trajectory fairly poorly. For a story that relies heavily on space-horror and suspense, there's very little of it here. And, of course, there are times when you just want to scream at the screen, "Don't do that, you idiot!". But, naturally, they never listen. And before you know it, their face is melting off or something like that.

Hell Target is just not worth the effort to watch. With so many other eighties OVAs to sample out there, best to leave this one alone.