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Laserblast
Happy go-lucky teen Billy Duncan discovers an otherworldly laser gun in the southern California desert, making him the target of a pair of aliens who had recently executed its previous owner.
Release : | 1978 |
Rating : | 2.8 |
Studio : | Charles Band Productions, Selected Pictures, The Irwin Yablans Company, |
Crew : | Production Design, Props, |
Cast : | Cheryl Smith Gianni Russo Ron Masak Eddie Deezen Keenan Wynn |
Genre : | Horror Science Fiction |
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I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.
It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.
It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.
It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.
The credits roll in neon green with constant reminders this is a Charles Band film, so you know its gotta be good. It seems some claymation ETs left behind a weapon that is more of a fire blaster than say a laser blaster. It fits on the right arm and blasts things setting them on fire, eat your heart out Bruce Campbell. Billy Duncan (Kim Milford) stumbles upon it in the desert and learns to master it, as it takes over him.The film is campy and cheesy, but fails to be entertaining in that aspect. This is Eddie Deezen's first acting credit.Guide: No f-bombs. Near sex. Near nudity.
IHE references for the win! Anyways, the movie sucks. Jokes aside, it's terrible. It's charming in its terribleness, but it still stinks. How they managed to pull off stop motion "naked turtle aliens" and so many explosions with next to no budget is a mystery of the highest level. Seriously did they happen to have a butt-load of explosives just lying around? And did they ask for car donations?Doesn't matter. Still stinks. Funny, yes. Silly, yes. Good? No. Very far from good. Though it is a fun watch if you are bored, drunk, smoking weed, because if you are doing all that, you will probably forget you're watching one of the worst movies of all time.
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.
Out in the desert reptilian aliens kill a humanoid alien leaving his Laser gun and necklace in a pile of ash. Later that day Billy Duncan finds the gun and necklace and discovers that combined they hold immense destructive power. He sees this as a great opportunity to get revenge on everyone who has done him wrong. Eventually the power of the weapon begins to take control of Billy as he begins to mutate and revenge takes a back seat to wanton destruction.It would be easy to write Laserblast off as rubbish. It's not particularly well made the acting isn't brilliant the special effects aren't great (excluding the stop motion aliens) but it is a whole lot of fun. Some of the jokes in the script fall a little flat but the performances themselves are a constant source of entertainment. The props with there schlocky appearance are great. I know if I had seen this as a little kid I probably would have found Billy quite creepy in some of the scenes when he mutates. In the end when the weapon takes over Billy and he becomes more Morlock than man the movie turns into explosion porn, and we are treated to some truly odd choices of things to blow up. Yeah the script is weak and nothing is ever explained but thats what your imagination is for. I have my own ideas of what the aliens were up to, and why Billy went that way. In this day and age of everything being explained out for us in exposition heavy dialogue this is a rare treat.I must give special mention to the movies musical score. The music in Laserblast really adds a level of class to proceedings which in all fairness probably doesn't deserve to be there. That main theme over the credits really is great sci-fi music.I enjoyed Laserblast and they really don't make them like this anymore, I'm not even sure they'd want to, which makes me very sad.