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Quality Ratings: A: Top notch picture and sound, clean as a whistle. B: Strong image, some loss. C: Somewhat fuzzy picture; watchable and adequate for collectors. D: Many generations from source, hard to see; for fanatics only. Click on logo for terms and ordering info! ALIEN 2 (1980), ridiculous and fun cash-in from Italy, as a group of spelunkers go after some blobby aliens in a cave; lots of gore; with director Michele Soavi, Belinda Mayne (KRULL), and Mark Bodin (ANTHROPOPHAGUS); includes vintage commercials, trailers, and music. (feature: 1:19, C; in English with Japanese subs) THE DEADLY DREAM (1971), very interesting TV-movie thriller with a metaphysical premise: Lloyd Bridges is a scientist who discovers a genetic way for everyone to reach their full potential, but some aren't interested in having their power threatened, and Bridges struggles between reality and a dream world that increasingly intersect; with Janet Leigh, Carl Betz, Leif Erickson, Don Stroud, Richard Jaeckel, and Phillip Pine; comes with tons of cool commercials, trailers, and music clips. (feature: 1:13, B-) DÜNYANI KURTARAN ADAM (1982), you've might have heard of this as TURKISH STAR WARS (the title literally translates as The Man Who Saves the World), the film that swipes footage wholesale from the Lucas fanboy hit. It's a bit shocking to see the squeezed STAR WARS clips integrated into another film (in Turkish, no less), but only two scenes (the opening space battle and the cantina) use them. The rest of the film is closer to the heroic cheese fun of INFRA-MAN than anything. Two kung-fu rockin' space heroes crash land on a desert planet (complete with Egyptian monuments) and try to rescue a downtrodden community from the clutches of a Ming-like wizard. Low-budget as hell and seemingly edited by a cross-eyed drunk, but lots of laughs as the handsome pair deal with Tonka-toy robots, fuzzy monsters, mummies and more, all propelled by bizarre stock music. No subtitles but you won't care. (1:30, C+; in Turkish with no subtitles) INVASION FROM INNER EARTH (1974), locally-shot Wisconson weirdness from Bill Rebane, about some hunters responding to aliens causing a worldwide plague; frequently shows up on "worst ever" lists; includes vintage commercials, music, and other fun. (feature: 1:14, C-; low sound) THE LOVE WAR (1970), Lloyd Bridges plays an alien fighting other aliens for control of the Earth, Angie Dickinson is the human falling for him; obscure TV movie with Harry Basch, Daniel J. Travanti, Bill McLean, Byron Foulger, Pepper Martin. (1:12, C-; mediocre picture, low, crackly sound) |
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