Actors: Edd Perry, Andy Stewart, Arla
Powell
Rating: 0 out of 10, The latest in my
journey through 100 bad sci fi films has a fascinating backstory. I was startled
to see Francis Ford Coppola listed as the executive producer of what turned out
to be a comically bad film. I learned this was originally a virulently
Anti-American Soviet film that Roger Corman acquired and then turned over to
recent film school graduate Coppola. He Americanized it and also inserted two
monsters which resembled both male and female anatomy – apparently on purpose.
While all of this is interesting it shouldn’t lead anyone to watch the movie
which is awful. After a worldwide nuclear war two mega-nations emerge in 1997 with
their sights set on Mars. Competition ensues and culminates on a Martian asteroid
and the aforementioned sleazy monsters.
MVP: The monsters, I guess
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