There are cult classics, there are vanity projects, and then there’s Sextette, a film that somehow manages to be both, and neither, all at once. Whether you find the result horrifying or hilariously watchable depends entirely on your tolerance for the absurd.
Starcrash (1978) – Review
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…
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.