DipitySkillful an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.
Helllins It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.
Taha Avalos The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.
Delight Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.
Platypuschow To my surprise this is actually a Fullmoon movie, the company well known only for cheesy horror films. Apparently they do sci-fi even worse.Laserblast presently sits with a 2.6 rating on IMDB, which is astoundingly low. I didn't think for a second it would be that bad, it actually is.It tells the story of a young man who finds a laser cannon in the desert, after wielding it and the necklace that came with it he is periodically transformed into a creature hellbent on destruction.Looking at the cover you'd think the "Creature" was Gary Busey, in the film it's more an early Romero zombie.The special effects are embarassing even for the time, the plot is riddled with holes and the whole thing comes off amateurish. One of the worst films every made? No. Deserving of 2.6? Absolutely.The Good:Erm.....The Bad:Looks hideousJust can't take it seriouslyThings I Learnt From This Movie:Aliens are just giant turtles without shells who wear shiney gloves
Walter Five I guess I love this bad film because I caught it on its' initial release in a drive-in on a hot summer night in 1978, well provisioned with a bag of Colombian Gold Buds and a couple bottles of Boone's Farm. We'd seen a still of the stop-motion animation scene in Starlog Magazine, and were quite curious. Wonderfully dreadful and delirious, the animated sequence at the beginning of the film is really the only thing this film had to recommend it. David Carradine's "Deathsport" was worse than this, as I recall, but it's not as good as Marjoe Gortner's "Starcrash"...
arsonistheway This movie is definitely hard to talk about. There is some character development for the main character. It is terrible but better than nothing. There are a lot of cool scenes of this guy just firing a laser, and that is why you are here and why this movie is so enjoyable. The film also has an odd tendency to show every explosion from every possible angle. There are some cool looking aliens that are done with some nice practical effects. There are some long unsubbed dialogue scenes with the aliens but you are too busy enjoying the cool effect that you don't care and what they are saying is pretty easy to figure out. Most of the time you are just looking at the background to see something strange, laughing at how bad the film is, or waiting for the movie to show you something cool. I enjoyed it a lot, but if I would feel guilty if I gave it more than a five.
geminiredblue Man, what a bad movie! There I said, I'd say it again if I had to. Why oh why did Leonard Maltin give it 2 1/2 stars out of 4? Generosity? The plot is nonexistent and the dialogue seems to fluctuate between unfunny humor and stilted exposition. In many scenes, we get actors standing in an awkward line while they talk. Acting by most of the cast is pretty wooden, especially the main actor who plays Billy. Too bad Roddy McDowall only gets two short scenes as a doctor. They even spelled his name wrong. Tsk, tsk, it violates ape law! Keenan Wynn, though good, is wasted as the crazy grandpa. And who in the world was that "tan man with jacket?" Some sort of man in black? Well, Will Smith he's not. Definitely not Tommy Lee Jones! Did anyone honestly believe that Eddie Deezen was convincing as a bully? The only thing this movie has going for it are the nifty stop-motion alien effects. The aforementioned laser gun looks good, though improbably large for a human arm in my opinion. Did anyone else think the green make-up made Billy look like Jim Carrey from THE MASK? I did like the ending however, since in my opinion there wasn't anything likable about Billy in the first place. However, even the ending was screwed up. I feel that the last scene went on a few minutes too long before the credits started rolling. Let me guess... padding it out to make the film feature-length? MST3K tackled this one and came up with one of their best episodes. So please, gentle viewer, hunt down this movie only if Mike and the Bots are riffing on it!
