Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.PCS 1/10/84; site ahuta.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!houxm!ahuta!leeper From: leeper@ahuta.UUCP (m.leeper) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: More Bad Movies Message-ID: <487@ahuta.UUCP> Date: Wed, 20-Feb-85 23:35:51 EST Article-I.D.: ahuta.487 Posted: Wed Feb 20 23:35:51 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 22-Feb-85 20:56:33 EST References: <687@topaz.ARPA> Organization: AT&T Information Systems Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 38 REFERENCES: <687@topaz.ARPA> >From: Steve Dennett > > >All this talk about bad SF films has reminded me of three films I saw >(and thankfully, quickly forgot.) Two of them I can't remember the >titles for, but if anyone else saw them, perhaps they'll remember. > >1. "The Final Programme", based on one of Michael Moorcock's Jerry > Cornelius books. This was known in the US as LAST DAYS OF MAN ON EARTH and as THE FINAL PROGRAMME in the UK. > >2. "Triad(???)", was a big budget film, starring (I believe) Paul > Neuman. This was Robert Altman's QUINTET, starring Paul Newman. > >3. Title Unremembered - This one came out about the same time as > "Battle Beyond the Stars." It was sort of an ALIEN ripoff; a > space ship lands on a planet to retrive a crystal (or something). > The crew must make there way into a huge pyramid/mountain. In > the caverns they meet their worst fears come alive (i.e., the woman > who has claustrophobia is crushed in a palpitating cavern). Worst > scene: another of the women is killed by her worst fear; she is > raped by a giant snail (I kid you not) that slimes off her clothes > (for a flash of bare flesh to wake the audience), and dies moaning. Best known as GALAXY OF TERROR but also released under the titles MINDWARP: AN INFINITY OF TERROR and PLANET OF HORRORS. It was made by New World Pictures in 1981, the same folks who made BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS the previous year. Mark Leeper ...ihnp4!ahuta!leeper