#spacehunter: adventures in the forbidden zone (1983)

[darktripz]

[zippocreed501]

FROM THE B-MOVIE BADLANDS...

...images from the lost continent of cult films, b-movies and celluloid dreamscapes

Starfighters in 70's/80's SF movies

Tally ho! Let's fire up those pulse engines, charge the laz-burners and see if we can bag one of those damn Vyveek bounders! What?

Battlestar Galactica (1978) Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979) Battle Beyond the Stars (1980) Flash Gordon (1980) Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone  (1983)The Ice Pirates (1984)The Last Starfighter (1984) Enemy Mine (1985)

[thefugitivesaint]

Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983) A film that was almost instantly forgotten when it was released just days before ‘Return of the Jedi’ hit theaters. It was the one of the last movies to use 3D as a marketing gimmick to get audiences into seats. I was 9 years old when I saw it and I loved it. Adult me? *shrugs shoulders* It’s ok.  The stills I took (from a digitized VHS copy) where meant to give you a flavor of what the movie is like. The plot is as bare bones at a plot can get and the world building is severely undercooked. It all goes something like this: a luxury space ship suffers from some catastrophic space event that forces passengers to abandon ship. Three of those passengers land on Terra XI, a planet that was devastated by some kind of virulent plague and has become a kind of post-apocalyptic hellscape. Bounty hunter/mercenary Wolff (Peter Strauss) receives a “broadcast” about the stranded passengers and sets out to retrieve them and collect the reward of “3,000 Mega Credits.” Soon after arriving on Terra XI, while trying to rescue the three passengers, they are abducted by agents working for the local tyrant Overdog (Michael Ironside). Wolff decides to head off to free the women from Overdog and, along the way, runs into Niki (Molly Ringwald) and Wolff’s former colleague Washington (Ernie Hudson).  The story is a loose narrative of episodic action sequences involving strange creatures and weird people that are given almost no clarification as to who they are or why they do what they do. It is briefly mentioned that Overdog was once a scientist named McNabb who was sent to Terra XI to combat the plague (with two other scientists) but no explanation is given as to why they became tyrants or why they started experimenting on the Terra XI’s population. I guess that’s all the narrative the creators thought was necessary (this movie did come out in the wake of ‘Mad Max II: The Road Warrior’ and that movie is almost purely action with hardly a plot to drive it so..) This was Molly Ringwald’s second film and the score was composed by Elmer Bernstein (who also composed the music for ‘Ghostbusters’ and ‘The Magnificent Seven’ to name two). The 3D-effects are as clunky as one might suspect. The overall effects (some of the miniature work is by legendary ‘Terminator’ animator Pete Kleinow) and production design (which is doing most of the heavy lifting here) are a mixed bag of competent execution and outright jankiness. Overall, it’s one of those modestly budgeted science fiction films from the 80s that didn’t hit it big, barely raked in a profit, and quickly faded into obscurity. It’s worth one watch if you’ve never seen it.  And, should you have any desire to put this movie into your brain, you can do so here (this might be a better quality copy than my digital VHS transfer). Oh, what folk have gabbed about the movie over at letterboxd. 

[thedurvin]

Ever since that "you should watch dumb movies" post went around I've been trying to figure out my favorite Dumb Movies to recommend--subjective, yes, but personally I, a connoisseur of the genre, find these movies to be the fun kind of stupid and the stupid kind of fun. Expect some more when I can skim my DVD collection and remember more of them

Demolition Man (1993)

The Super Mario Bros. Movie (1993)

The Last Dragon (1985)

Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957)

Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983)

Tank Girl (1995)

Flash Gordon (1980)

Masters of the Universe (1987)

Time Bandits (1981)

Running Man (1987)

Apologies to anyone that thinks these movies shouldn't be called dumb

[70s80sandbeyond]

Peter Strauss and Molly Ringwald in Spacehunter: Adventures in The Forbidden Zone (1983)

[duranduratulsa]

Now showing on my 80's Fest Stevegoolie Saturday Night...Spacehunter: Adventures In The Forbidden Zone (1983) on classic DVD 📀! #movies #movie #scifi #spacehunter #spacehunteradventuresintheforbiddenzone #mollyringwald #PeterStrauss #michaelironside #erniehudson #andreamarcovicci #dvd #80s #80sfest #durandurantulsas6thannual80sfest #Stevegoolie #svengoolie #METV

[filmkareleri]

Spacehunter Adventures In The Forbidden Zone (1983)

B movie with a small budget, a smart set design, an uninspired storyline, an interesting cast and a fairly rich soundtrack. It also has outdated graphics and silly monsters. A good lazy afternoon watch.

[scifipinups]

Molly Ringwald Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983)

[cultfaction]

Cult Faction Podcast Ep. 103: Spacehunter - Adventures in the Forbidden Zone

Spacehunter – Adventures in the Forbidden Zone is this week’s spotlight subject! Produced by Ivan Reitman and directed by Lamont Johnson this 1983 American-Canadian Space Western stars Peter Strauss, Molly Ringwald, Ernie Hudson, Michael Ironside, Andrea Marcovicci, Hrant Alianak, and Deborah Pratt. All that plus your usual banter from three men who should know…

[80s-rewind]

#1 movie for May 20, 1983

Average Ticket Price: $3.15

#80sMovies

Movie: Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone

IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086346/

[amesmonde]

Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983) Review

A bounty hunter with a vagrant teenage girl goes on a mission to rescue three women stranded on a brutal planet. Boasting a release in 3D, Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone is a flawed sci-fi adventure in the wake of Mad Max” and Mad Max: Road Warrior. Similar to Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn and Space Raiders, it seems to only exist to cash in on the release of Return of…

[zippocreed501]

FROM THE B-MOVIE BADLANDS...

...images from the lost continent of cult films, b-movies and celluloid dreamscapes

Cyborgs in sci-fi movies 1957 - 1984

Yeah, I know you'll need a new spleen for the invasion on Tuesday mate but I just can't get the parts...

The Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy (1957) The Colossus of New York (1958) The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962) Dr No (1962) Cyborg 2087 (1966) Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) Superman III (1983) Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983) Exterminators of the Year 3000 (1983) The Terminator (1984)

[tuesday-night-movies]

Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983)

[kowlooncultwatch]

Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone, 1983

Look at the title of this film, obviously it’s not going to be a masterpiece. However this film has a ton of charming and weirdo stuff to the 2019 viewer. The sets and models are interesting and I would almost say extravagant. There’s just so much stuff used to build the world. Each establishing shot is an interesting painting or model of a weird space ship, or building or location. It’s great! The script is uninteresting but the cast does their best and we have a lot of good people. Michael Ironside does an especially creepy job as antagonist “Overdog”. A young Molly Ringwald plucks along as the sidekick. Peter Strauss is a passable hero, I mean it’s all fine.  The whole film is just chalk full of sci fi goodness that we just don’t see done very well in recent years. I found a lot to like and would recommend it!

[thedurvin]

I heard about “Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone” (prod. Ivan Reitman) in some clickbait about Star Wars knockoffs, but it’s really more Mad Max with cooler tech, a lighter and weirder tone, and some ridiculous (affectionate) segments with Sewer Xenas and a creepy children’s chorus and a local dialect of corrupted English. Molly Ringwald does a great job as one of the least-annoying chaotic teen sidekicks in 80s adventure cinema. The hero is a Han Solo knockoff that could really have used more of a personality, but it kinda comes with the territory. Overall like a fusion between “Firefly” and “Flash Gordon” and one of the few of these schlock adventure movies I’ve watched that I can actually and unironically recommend

Why isn’t this thing more famous? It’s more fun than most of the stuff it was ripping off and has some names that were pretty big in 1983!