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From: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: More on Totally Bad Movies
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Date: Mon, 7-Oct-85 03:10:47 EDT
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I recall a very bad science fiction movie, on a par with Plan 9, but I'm
not sure of the name.  It might be "Space Monster".  The alien is played
by a man in a gorilla suit wearing a spherical helmet from an
old-fashioned deap-sea diving suit.  He keeps calling up his superiors
on an old TV set.  I think he harasses a family that is on an outing of
some kind.  There's lots of screaming and fainting women.

This film is incredibly boring.  The image of the alien is funny the
first time you see it, but that doesn't really redeem it.  We showed it
a few years ago at the MIT LSC Science Fiction Marathon, and everyone
hated it, as far as I know (we usually have one stinker at around 3am
during the marathon).

An honorable mention should go to another film that I have only seen
during the Science Fiction Marathon, whose name also escapes me.  It was
a musical comedy based on the general "Sleeper"/"Things to Come"/etc
theme of people who wake up in the future.  While the music was not good
(by the midpoint of the film, the audience would scream "Don't sing" as
the music was building, and the projectionist even replaced the
soundtrack with a rock tape during one of the songs!), it was at least
an interesting idea, which is the one redeeming feature of the film.
The film itself was pretty bad.  The comedy was bad slapstick, there was
a bad love story, and the science just turned into comedy.
-- 
    Barry Margolin
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