Imagine if Star Wars were made by people who had never seen Star Wars but had only heard about it through an unreliable game of telephone. That’s Starcrash in a nutshell, a delightfully goofy, low-budget Italian rip-off of George Lucas’s space saga, filled with flashing lights, nonsensical dialogue, and the absolute conviction that every absurd…
Author: Mike Brooks
Film grad who spends most his time trying to catch up on his "To Watch" pile of movies.
Forbidden World (1982) – Review
Welcome to the Forbidden World, where science is dangerous, aliens are juicy, and every woman is either a scientist, a seductress, or both, usually while standing next to a fog machine and covered in baby oil. This 1982 cult classic is what happens when you mix Alien, Barbarella, and a 13-year-old boy’s imagination, all under…
Galaxy of Terror (1981) – Review
A doomed crew. A haunted planet. And the most awkward worm-related death scene in B-movie history. Step into a sci-fi nightmare where your fears kill you…not to mention your fashion sense as well. Brought to you by Roger Corman, intergalactic king of “What did I just watch?”
Battle Beyond the Stars (1980) – Review
There have been several films that have “borrowed” from Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai, the most notable being The Magnificent Seven by Preston Sturges, but I doubt even Kurosawa could have dreamed someone would take his premise and re-imagine it with aliens, laser battles and a spaceship with large breasts.
Galaxina (1980) – Review
There once was a glittery artifact from the golden era of late-70s, early-80s sci-fi spoofs — a low-budget, tongue-in-cheek movie that tried to riff on Star Wars, Star Trek, and Barbarella all at once, a film that somehow ended up feeling like a stoned Saturday morning cartoon for adults. This artifact would be, of course,…