Fun Fact: Alluma is played by Erin Moran, who played Joanie Cunningham on the 70s TV show, Happy Days. 😉 Her younger brother, Tony Moran, played Michael Myers in the scene in Halloween where Laurie rips off his mask.
Lucas: I love the Power Glove. It's so bad. Lucas: Hey, it's the wizard! I hope you don't get nervous like last time. We wouldn't want you to..."wiz" on someone! The wizard movie 1989 🙃
James Cameron did special effects for this film. One day he was filming an insert shot of maggots climbing on a severed arm. The maggots weren't moving. So, he had an electrical strip placed under the arm. After that was set up, a couple of producers stopped by to watch. When he said "action", someone would turn on the electrical strip and the maggots would start moving. When he said "cut", someone would cut the electricity and the maggots stopped moving. The producers were so impressed with his ability to direct maggots that they hired him to direct Piranha 2.
Ray Walston, who has been mentioned as "Uncle Martin" in the 60s sitcom _My Favorite Martian,_ had a long stage and film career. His most notable film roles were SeaBee Luther Willis in the film of _South Pacific_ and as Mr. Applebee, reprising his Tony Award winning role, in _Damn Yankees._
I like how this person keeps saying "So fake!" while, at the same time, going "EEEEWW!! EEK!! AAAAUGH!!!! YUCK!!!!!! Iiiiich!!!!!". LOL! THAT's not very consistent!
If you notice, the set design was by James Cameron. He basically used the same type of design, with a bigger budget, for Aliens. The walls of the ship corridors, were covered in styrofoam, fast food containers. For a low budget sci-fi movie, it looks very expensive.
The shuriken-throwing crew member is played by Sid Haig, who has appeared in several horror movies like House of 1,000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects.
I first encountered Sid Haig on Saturday mornings, when in the late 70's he was the space tyrant Dragos, antagonist to the title character on Jason of Star Command. Give me time, and I can come up with a score of other features he's appeared in, both film and television. 😄
@@goldenager59 Oh, I definitely remember Sid Haig from those days. He was also in the Buck Rogers in the 25th Century season 1 finale, Flight of the War Witch. 😆
Corman actually did direct a few good movies. He did a couple of adaptations of Poe's work with Vincent Price that are pretty decent: The Masque of the Red Death and The Tomb of Ligeia (both 1964). You should also check out X: The Man with the X-ray Eyes (1963) and A Bucket of Blood (1959).
I like how this person keeps saying "So fake!" while, at the same time, going "EEEEWW!! EEK!! AAAAUGH!!!! YUCK!!!!!! Iiiiich!!!!!". LOL! THAT's not very consistent!
“Is the worm eating her?" Depends on your definition, Jen. lol 🤣 The worm is actually raping her. Yep, this was definitely one of Roger Corman's grossest movies ever. 🤮
Another “awesome” movie. Have you thought of a playlist for the month of October? Lots of good horror flicks to react to. Here’s some of my favorites- C.H.U.D Silver Bullet House (1985) The Prophecy (1979, about the mutant bear) The Blob (1988) Serpent and the Rainbow ( a great lesser known Wes Craven movie) Phantasm (1979) Phantasm 2 There’s so many more.
Oh yes! Definitely have my October films picked out and some will be decided on Patreon as well. I’ll post a calendar when we get closer to October! Thanks for the suggestions! I’ll add them to the watchlist.
I like how this person keeps saying "So fake!" while, at the same time, going "EEEEWW!! EEK!! AAAAUGH!!!! YUCK!!!!!! Iiiiich!!!!!". LOL! THAT's not very consistent!
"My Favorite Martian" co-starred Ray Walston (Kore in this film) and Bill Bixby ("The Courtship of Eddie's Father" and "The Incredible Hulk" TV shows) and it was a sci-fi sitcom. A Martian named 'Uncle Martin' crash lands on Earth and is taken in by Tim O'Hara (reporter) who keeps his secret while Martin tries to repair his flying saucer. He has a number of powers which mostly come on display when he raises his 2 antennae from his head, he can turn invisible, read minds, float objects, freeze things and speed himself up. It was fun, ran for 107 episodes from 1963 to 1966, the first 2 season were in b&w like many shows of the era. They had to earn color status. As I recommended in Twitter the cult classic "Silent Running" starring Bruce Dern is a great one.
5:02, Ray Walston from My Favorite Martian, Fast Times At Ridgemont High, Of Mice and Men 1992, Stephen King's The Stand, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Star Trek: Voyager.
Alluma got the squeeze put on her. I remember this movie back in the day and being grossed out. Edward Albert was the son of actor Eddie Albert who was in movies from the 1940's-70's and probably remembered most for the 60's tv show Green Acres. Ray Walston was in TV and movies from 60's-90's and the 60's TV show My Favorite Martian.
I've mentioned this before, but Galaxy of Terror features early special effects work by James Cameron, before he became a director. He also worked on John Carpenter's Escape From New York, if you wanna check that out. 😉
Yes! I saw his name in the credits too! It’s on the list for sure! I want to start a Throwback playlist and that would probably be the first one on the list!
Robert Englund was in "Chuck vs. The Aisle of Terror" tv episode. At the time I watched that Chuck episode, I didn't remember Robert Englund's name from the 80's, as my family didn't watch "Nightmare On Elm Street" when I was young. Grace Zabriskie was Susan's mom on Seinfeld, and the Crone on Charmed. Grace also played a major role on Twin Peaks. Personally, I never watched Twin Peaks much in 1990, but I watched some of it in the last two years.
Wow, a little late in the evening for this video, isn't it, Jen? lol But thanks for getting to Galaxy of Terror. Yes, Robert Englund did this movie before A Nightmare on Elm Street. lol 😂
This is the movie where James Cameron met long time friend and collaborator: Bill Paxton. James Cameron took what he learned from this movie and refined it for Aliens 1986.
Cabren - Played by Eward Albert, son of Eddie Albert who had a long career, but is probably best known for playing Mr. Douglas on the show Green Acres. Baelon - Played by Zalman King who went on to produce and direct a bunch of softcore erotic films, like Wild Orchid, Wild Orchid II: Two Shades of Blue, and Red Shoe Diaries, both the movie and the series that followed it. Kore - Played by Ray Walston who played a martian hiding out on Earth in the show My Favorite Martian. They tried to disguise his voice in his master persona, but anyone who watched that show could tell it was him, spoiling the twist at the end. Of the crew of the rescue ship, only Robert Englund (Ranger), Taffy O'Connell (Damia) and Grace Zabriskie (Captain Trantor) are still alive. All the rest have passed away. :( According to a video discussing the film, the worm scene was originally even longer and more graphic, but it earned the film an X-rating, which was the kiss of death for commercial films. So they edited it down and got an R. In the scene where they find her nude body, I always wondered why Baelon was so quick to incinerate her, without even bothering to check for a pulse. Granted, everyone else so far had been killed, but she didn't have any outward signs of trauma, so how did he know she wasn't just unconscious?
OMG!... Another arm cut off! It's been a while! Good ol' Roger Corman fare. Nice to see Erin Moran (Alluma) from Happy Days, and those of an older persuasion might remember Ray Walston (Kore) from My Favourite Martian. Good review Jen.
It always amused me that Robert Englund was known for the NoES films, where his actual face was covered by prosthetics, and V, where he played an alien whose Robert Englund face was a mask covering its true form.
I saw this once as a kid, and the few times I've thought about it over the decades, I thought it had featured an actress who *looked* *like* Erin Moran. I hadn't realized it actually was Erin Moran, though I must have known it was her at the time.
The last week of December, 1982. I was all of a dozen years of age, with a brand-new Atari 2600 to my name, and I was watching the high-profile SF movie Meteor on ABC. My father walks in and mentions that another sci-fi film is being run at the same time on NBC. Meteor is not doing much for me, so I switch channels (using the dial) and there's this space action movie that I've never heard of before, with a dozen different spaceships (designed by James Cameron, I discovered much later) and a sweeping score (composed, I learned not so much later, by James Horner), and at once I am hooked, Meteor forsaken utterly. But I never found out the name of the movie, and for months afterward scoured various sources for a recognizable mention. Then in the summer of 1983, I see advertised on TV a movie called Space Raiders, with the same spaceships as the other film! I took in this feature two or three times, and a year or so later when the VCR boom took off, I rented it many times. It was not until July 1984 that I finally visited a rental store that had not only Space Raiders on the rack but also, close to it, the very film I had seen on NBC at long last - Battle Beyond the Stars its title, with its star, Richard Thomas of TV's The Waltons, on its cover. That year's Fourth of July was one of the most satisfying in memory. Afterwards, I rented BBtS at just about every opportunity, one thing led to another, and by the time the 80's came to a close I had become familiar with Roger Corman and much of his SF/fantasy output, my introduction to the subgenre of the cinematic substandard, which among other things led me in the fullness of time to Mystery Science Theater 3000, a relationship I cherish to this very day. I often take it into my head to wonder what course my tastes would have followed had Father not happened to have made that mention of an alternative program that long-ago December. 😏 😊
@@goldenager59 Yes, the ships are re-used in Space Raiders. ;) The main theme has also been used, I just can never remember which movie(s) it's used in.
@@spacedinosaur8733 I can tell you that the music cues from Battle Beyond the Stars (plus a few from Humanoids From the Deep) were re-used, as they were in Space Raiders, in the the previous year's Sorceress and in 1986's Wizards of the Lost Kingdom. The BBtS main theme alone was used in the title sequence of Deathstalker and the Warriors From Hell (the third installment of that particular franchise). Doubtless Mr. Horner's music for Mr. Corman has been recycled elsewhere, outside my experience. 🤓 😎
This one is good fun. And there are several notable actors in this too. You noticed Robert Englund, but Sid Haig is in this as well. Sid has a long resume of horror and misc B films going back the late 60's. Erin Moran is also one of the leads in this, and she was most famously part of the cast of "Happy Days" playing Ritchie Cunningham's sister Joanie. It's also worth noting that this was one of the Corman films that James Cameron was doing special FX work on (and also some directing) early in his career.
The VFX were done by James Cameron. This was his first foray into horror. His feature film debut was Piranha 2: The Spawning, released in 1982, a year after Galaxy Of Terror was released. He would do VFX work for John Carpenter's Escape From New York.
The special effects were done by some nobody named James Cameron. His earliest student film led to the later scenes of this movie, and something called The Terminator later.
This is a interesting channel and I hope you continue to do well.Ive seen this movie once before and actually enjoyed it.Ive seen Robert England in The Midnight Man based on the Creepypasta game and Wishmaster which was such a interesting Wes Craven Movie.Anyways have a good day
few of the characters starred in TV shows.. Robert englund was on show called "V" about aliens.. the girl with powers is from "Happy days".. the old man who is the master is "My favorite martian" and the guy with the crystal stars was on "Jason of star command" I read or heard a rumor somewhere that the woman with the power refused to do a nude scene so when it came to her death. Roger corman blew up her head without her knowledge.. Dont know if that is true but it is interesting
@@ReelReviewsWithJen You should watch the original 1963 version first. It's lower budget and not as flashy, but there's an in-joke in the 86 version that you won't get if you haven't seen the original. Not that it spoils the movie or anything, it's just a neat little addition that they threw in.
I don't think Joanie Loves Chachi any more. Shout out to Ray Walston, unforgetable as Uncle Martin in 'My Favorite Martian'. His antenna played a mean theremin. His powers included being able to float objects and turn invisible. I saw a few episodes a few years ago, and was surprised at the quality of Bill Bixby's acting. Walston stayed around for years afterwards, and always played honorable characters. You have to admit, Roger Corman was the king of the Bs, but he had awsome casting, and gave many actors their start. (OK, by 1981 many were already stars, but the stats don't lie.) Still loving your reactions, Jen. Many genres, many ways to say UURRRRGH.
I can’t recommend the GoodBadFlicks episode they did on this movie enough. It was very interesting and informative. You and everyone else who reads this and has a passion for B-movie cheese need to watch it. It really shows how creative the low budget film makers can be. I love that, no matter how bad the movies are, they never total dog the movies. Instead, they poke a little fun, give hilarious plot breakdowns and point out what makes the movie enjoyable, no matter how cheesy. They are awesome, and YOU are awesome.
If you've never seen John Waters's cult classic _Pink Flamingos_ (1972), that's one you should definitely check out. Written, produced, directed, narrated, filmed, and edited by John Waters, it is part of what he has labelled the "Trash Trilogy."
Have you ever seen Forbidden Planet (1956)? Parts of it look dated now, but it's a classic and the effects are excellent for the time. It has some humor, but it's not a shlocky movie. It's quite well regarded.
Death Race 2000 1975 (staring David Carradine, Sly Stallone and Martin Kove!) is a great wonderful terrible funny movie!!! Death Wish 3 is a unintentional cinematic masterpiece as a funny bad movie!! (Prophetic satire!) Maybe the greatest exploitation of all time. Directed by the coked out slimey and perverted lunatic Michael Winner. May the Devil have mercy on his soul. 🤣🤣🤣❤
Oh! OooH! It just occurred to me! It's not a Corman movie but it's a direct-to-video 80s monster horror cheese fest! But you should review, The Brain from 1988!
I have an interesting possibility for a trifecta, Ms. Jen. Now that you have seen Mr. Corman's Galaxy of Terror, please permit me to recommend three other features from him in the same period. First, 1980's Battle Beyond the Stars, his "big-budget" entry in the subgenre of Star Wars cash-ins, featuring a smart script by John Sayles of indie film fame, spaceships galore designed and built by James Cameron, and a rousing score by newcomer James Horner. Secondly, Humanoids from the Deep, also from 1980, also with a score by James Horner, a kind of Creature from the Black Lagoon for the drive-in movie set. And lastly, 1983's Space Raiders - which is a plum instance of Mr. Corman's resourcefulness at recycling elements from the two previous films PLUS Galaxy of Terror! You may not wish to take my word by itself that these three together make for fascinating film school...but I *really* wish you would!
I always suggest watching Battle Beyond the Stars after The Seven Samurai and The Magnificant Seven, since tMS was a cowboy remake of tSS and BBtS was a SF remake of tMS. And speaking of John Sayles, he did a very low-budget SF film, The Brother from Another Planet, which Jen might like even though it's not bad.
@@myeckwaters Why, I myself assembled a VHS cassette with all three movies! (Actually TWO cassettes; one in chronological order: tSS, tMS, BBtS - and the other in reverse order: 1980, 1960, 1954. 😮 😀
I don't believe in just labeling a movie "bad" or "good". I think THAT approach to reviewing is simplistic, un-objective, and stupid and usually say's more about he reviewer than about the movie being discussed. Rather, I think a review should cite and emphasize, in fair and equal measure, BOTH a movies defects and assets. Of course, some movies do tilt further on one scale than on the other, sure. But reviews of THIS kind I really don't trust in terms of evaluating a film (though they can sometimes be amusing if done with any comedic talent).
3:50, RIP, Sid Haig. 1939-2019.
Fun Fact: Alluma is played by Erin Moran, who played Joanie Cunningham on the 70s TV show, Happy Days. 😉 Her younger brother, Tony Moran, played Michael Myers in the scene in Halloween where Laurie rips off his mask.
Wow, you did this movie? I've noticed you do quite a few that no-one else touches, my compliments. :D
Haha thank you! I try and watch a variety of films and I love b-movies!
Lucas: I love the Power Glove. It's so bad.
Lucas: Hey, it's the wizard! I hope you don't get nervous like last time. We wouldn't want you to..."wiz" on someone!
The wizard movie 1989
🙃
She's a trooper.
James Cameron did special effects for this film. One day he was filming an insert shot of maggots climbing on a severed arm. The maggots weren't moving. So, he had an electrical strip placed under the arm. After that was set up, a couple of producers stopped by to watch. When he said "action", someone would turn on the electrical strip and the maggots would start moving. When he said "cut", someone would cut the electricity and the maggots stopped moving. The producers were so impressed with his ability to direct maggots that they hired him to direct Piranha 2.
Ray Walston, who has been mentioned as "Uncle Martin" in the 60s sitcom _My Favorite Martian,_ had a long stage and film career. His most notable film roles were SeaBee Luther Willis in the film of _South Pacific_ and as Mr. Applebee, reprising his Tony Award winning role, in _Damn Yankees._
Don't forget Ray Walston in "The Sting".
Also in the 1994 mini series of The Stand
Mr. Hand from Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
I like how this person keeps saying "So fake!" while, at the same time, going "EEEEWW!! EEK!! AAAAUGH!!!! YUCK!!!!!! Iiiiich!!!!!". LOL! THAT's not very consistent!
If you notice, the set design was by James Cameron. He basically used the same type of design, with a bigger budget, for Aliens. The walls of the ship corridors, were covered in styrofoam, fast food containers. For a low budget sci-fi movie, it looks very expensive.
The shuriken-throwing crew member is played by Sid Haig, who has appeared in several horror movies like House of 1,000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects.
I first encountered Sid Haig on Saturday mornings, when in the late 70's he was the space tyrant Dragos, antagonist to the title character on Jason of Star Command. Give me time, and I can come up with a score of other features he's appeared in, both film and television. 😄
@@goldenager59 Oh, I definitely remember Sid Haig from those days. He was also in the Buck Rogers in the 25th Century season 1 finale, Flight of the War Witch. 😆
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...as Spiro, if memory serves; and as if that wasn't enough, he came back for the premiere show of season 2, as Pratt, remember? 😁
@@goldenager59 Yes, that's true. I think he's the only actor who played two different roles on Buck Rogers.
The most recent I seen with him was "Bone Tomahawk" starring Kurt Russell, Jack from "Lost", and Patrick Wilson from the "Conjuring" franchise
Corman actually did direct a few good movies. He did a couple of adaptations of Poe's work with Vincent Price that are pretty decent: The Masque of the Red Death and The Tomb of Ligeia (both 1964). You should also check out X: The Man with the X-ray Eyes (1963) and A Bucket of Blood (1959).
Yeah, it wouldn't be until much later that Corman became the disgustingly rape-obsessed Larry Flynt of sci-fi B-movies.
I second "the Masque of the red death" with the legendary Vincent Price
I like how this person keeps saying "So fake!" while, at the same time, going "EEEEWW!! EEK!! AAAAUGH!!!! YUCK!!!!!! Iiiiich!!!!!". LOL! THAT's not very consistent!
“Is the worm eating her?" Depends on your definition, Jen. lol 🤣 The worm is actually raping her. Yep, this was definitely one of Roger Corman's grossest movies ever. 🤮
I guess you could say that her greatest fear was "Death by Snu Snu!" ;-)
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that scene had to be cut to avoid an X
Another “awesome” movie. Have you thought of a playlist for the month of October? Lots of good horror flicks to react to. Here’s some of my favorites-
C.H.U.D
Silver Bullet
House (1985)
The Prophecy (1979, about the mutant bear)
The Blob (1988)
Serpent and the Rainbow ( a great lesser known Wes Craven movie)
Phantasm (1979)
Phantasm 2
There’s so many more.
Oh yes! Definitely have my October films picked out and some will be decided on Patreon as well. I’ll post a calendar when we get closer to October! Thanks for the suggestions! I’ll add them to the watchlist.
Great choices!
The Prophecy is a must-see-- for that scene with the kid trying to jump away in a sleeping bag if nothing else.
Alien meets Star Wars. Good stuff. Corman always delivers with his particular brand of schlock.
Have you seen Mars Attacks? If not, it's a must!
Good movie recommend bigfoot and wildboy tv series 😊
I like how this person keeps saying "So fake!" while, at the same time, going "EEEEWW!! EEK!! AAAAUGH!!!! YUCK!!!!!! Iiiiich!!!!!". LOL! THAT's not very consistent!
Oh, here's a sort-of horror movie you might enjoy: "Deep Rising"
Deep rising is great & underrated.
I'd also recommend the 1985 science fiction/horror film, Creature, Jen. 😉 It's ranked at a lowly 33% on Rotten Tomatoes, so you'll like it. lol 😆
I love the movie Creature. It was actually the first DVD I ever bought, at a dollar store no less.
Ha! I was going to suggest this movie too. Creature was always like the Italian-spaghetti-scifi version of this movie in my head lol.
"My Favorite Martian" co-starred Ray Walston (Kore in this film) and Bill Bixby ("The Courtship of Eddie's Father" and "The Incredible Hulk" TV shows) and it was a sci-fi sitcom. A Martian named 'Uncle Martin' crash lands on Earth and is taken in by Tim O'Hara (reporter) who keeps his secret while Martin tries to repair his flying saucer. He has a number of powers which mostly come on display when he raises his 2 antennae from his head, he can turn invisible, read minds, float objects, freeze things and speed himself up. It was fun, ran for 107 episodes from 1963 to 1966, the first 2 season were in b&w like many shows of the era. They had to earn color status.
As I recommended in Twitter the cult classic "Silent Running" starring Bruce Dern is a great one.
5:02, Ray Walston from My Favorite Martian, Fast Times At Ridgemont High, Of Mice and Men 1992, Stephen King's The Stand, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Star Trek: Voyager.
And, lest we forget, "Johnny Dangerously"!
And he played Judge Bone in the David E. Kelley series "Picket Fences" which I loved.
Captain Trantor is played by Grace Zabriskie, who is most well known for playing Laura Palmer's mother on the David Lynch TV show, Twin Peaks.
I really need to watch Twin Peaks soon!
Alluma got the squeeze put on her. I remember this movie back in the day and being grossed out. Edward Albert was the son of actor Eddie Albert who was in movies from the 1940's-70's and probably remembered most for the 60's tv show Green Acres. Ray Walston was in TV and movies from 60's-90's and the 60's TV show My Favorite Martian.
The guy with short curly hair is Robert Englund
Yes! I thought so!
Great vid!! Another Corman classic to check out... 'Humanoids From The Deep'
I've mentioned this before, but Galaxy of Terror features early special effects work by James Cameron, before he became a director. He also worked on John Carpenter's Escape From New York, if you wanna check that out. 😉
Yes! I saw his name in the credits too! It’s on the list for sure! I want to start a Throwback playlist and that would probably be the first one on the list!
@@ReelReviewsWithJen Awesome!
@@ReelReviewsWithJen flesh Gordon movie good effects for its time 🙃
It show too for a low budget shitty b movie it doesn't look like horrible tbh pretty good all things considered
Robert Englund was in "Chuck vs. The Aisle of Terror" tv episode. At the time I watched that Chuck episode, I didn't remember Robert Englund's name from the 80's, as my family didn't watch "Nightmare On Elm Street" when I was young. Grace Zabriskie was Susan's mom on Seinfeld, and the Crone on Charmed. Grace also played a major role on Twin Peaks. Personally, I never watched Twin Peaks much in 1990, but I watched some of it in the last two years.
Wow, a little late in the evening for this video, isn't it, Jen? lol But thanks for getting to Galaxy of Terror. Yes, Robert Englund did this movie before A Nightmare on Elm Street. lol 😂
LOL before he was Freddie, he was a Final Girl!
This is one of my all time favorites
With all the talk of "The Master" ... you should watch "The Last Dragon".
This is the movie where James Cameron met long time friend and collaborator: Bill Paxton. James Cameron took what he learned from this movie and refined it for Aliens 1986.
Q winged serpent 1982, Death Race 2000 1975, Night of the Comet 1984.
5:13, "oh, god, yeah there it is!" Lol! Your reaction!
12:28, "Oh, god, he doesn't have a face!" Lol!
Cabren - Played by Eward Albert, son of Eddie Albert who had a long career, but is probably best known for playing Mr. Douglas on the show Green Acres.
Baelon - Played by Zalman King who went on to produce and direct a bunch of softcore erotic films, like Wild Orchid, Wild Orchid II: Two Shades of Blue, and Red Shoe Diaries, both the movie and the series that followed it.
Kore - Played by Ray Walston who played a martian hiding out on Earth in the show My Favorite Martian. They tried to disguise his voice in his master persona, but anyone who watched that show could tell it was him, spoiling the twist at the end.
Of the crew of the rescue ship, only Robert Englund (Ranger), Taffy O'Connell (Damia) and Grace Zabriskie (Captain Trantor) are still alive. All the rest have passed away. :(
According to a video discussing the film, the worm scene was originally even longer and more graphic, but it earned the film an X-rating, which was the kiss of death for commercial films. So they edited it down and got an R. In the scene where they find her nude body, I always wondered why Baelon was so quick to incinerate her, without even bothering to check for a pulse. Granted, everyone else so far had been killed, but she didn't have any outward signs of trauma, so how did he know she wasn't just unconscious?
13:10, yes it was Freddy Krueger, without the makeup.
OMG!... Another arm cut off! It's been a while! Good ol' Roger Corman fare. Nice to see Erin Moran (Alluma) from Happy Days, and those of an older persuasion might remember Ray Walston (Kore) from My Favourite Martian. Good review Jen.
It always amused me that Robert Englund was known for the NoES films, where his actual face was covered by prosthetics, and V, where he played an alien whose Robert Englund face was a mask covering its true form.
V! Loved those miniseries and TV movies!
I saw this once as a kid, and the few times I've thought about it over the decades, I thought it had featured an actress who *looked* *like* Erin Moran. I hadn't realized it actually was Erin Moran, though I must have known it was her at the time.
2:04, they recycled some of the props from Forbidden World for this movie.
Battle Beyond the Stars is my favorite Corman classic!
The last week of December, 1982. I was all of a dozen years of age, with a brand-new Atari 2600 to my name, and I was watching the high-profile SF movie Meteor on ABC. My father walks in and mentions that another sci-fi film is being run at the same time on NBC. Meteor is not doing much for me, so I switch channels (using the dial) and there's this space action movie that I've never heard of before, with a dozen different spaceships (designed by James Cameron, I discovered much later) and a sweeping score (composed, I learned not so much later, by James Horner), and at once I am hooked, Meteor forsaken utterly. But I never found out the name of the movie, and for months afterward scoured various sources for a recognizable mention. Then in the summer of 1983, I see advertised on TV a movie called Space Raiders, with the same spaceships as the other film! I took in this feature two or three times, and a year or so later when the VCR boom took off, I rented it many times. It was not until July 1984 that I finally visited a rental store that had not only Space Raiders on the rack but also, close to it, the very film I had seen on NBC at long last - Battle Beyond the Stars its title, with its star, Richard Thomas of TV's The Waltons, on its cover. That year's Fourth of July was one of the most satisfying in memory. Afterwards, I rented BBtS at just about every opportunity, one thing led to another, and by the time the 80's came to a close I had become familiar with Roger Corman and much of his SF/fantasy output, my introduction to the subgenre of the cinematic substandard, which among other things led me in the fullness of time to Mystery Science Theater 3000, a relationship I cherish to this very day.
I often take it into my head to wonder what course my tastes would have followed had Father not happened to have made that mention of an alternative program that long-ago December. 😏 😊
Me too!!
@@goldenager59 Yes, the ships are re-used in Space Raiders. ;) The main theme has also been used, I just can never remember which movie(s) it's used in.
It was great when watching it for the first time, I loved seeing Hannibal "I love it when a plan comes together" Smith as Space Cowboy.
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I can tell you that the music cues from Battle Beyond the Stars (plus a few from Humanoids From the Deep) were re-used, as they were in Space Raiders, in the the previous year's Sorceress and in 1986's Wizards of the Lost Kingdom. The BBtS main theme alone was used in the title sequence of Deathstalker and the Warriors From Hell (the third installment of that particular franchise). Doubtless Mr. Horner's music for Mr. Corman has been recycled elsewhere, outside my experience. 🤓 😎
A lot of the matte paintings done for Rodger Corman films were painted by James Cameron.
This one is good fun. And there are several notable actors in this too. You noticed Robert Englund, but Sid Haig is in this as well. Sid has a long resume of horror and misc B films going back the late 60's. Erin Moran is also one of the leads in this, and she was most famously part of the cast of "Happy Days" playing Ritchie Cunningham's sister Joanie. It's also worth noting that this was one of the Corman films that James Cameron was doing special FX work on (and also some directing) early in his career.
Erin Moran was from the 70s tv show Happy Days
14:20, "Oh, god it chomped him!!"
The VFX were done by James Cameron. This was his first foray into horror. His feature film debut was Piranha 2: The Spawning, released in 1982, a year after Galaxy Of Terror was released. He would do VFX work for John Carpenter's Escape From New York.
The special effects were done by some nobody named James Cameron. His earliest student film led to the later scenes of this movie, and something called The Terminator later.
9:46, "very swift precision."
This is a interesting channel and I hope you continue to do well.Ive seen this movie once before and actually enjoyed it.Ive seen Robert England in The Midnight Man based on the Creepypasta game and Wishmaster which was such a interesting Wes Craven Movie.Anyways have a good day
No shortage of gore in a Corman movie...so true
few of the characters starred in TV shows.. Robert englund was on show called "V" about aliens.. the girl with powers is from "Happy days".. the old man who is the master is "My favorite martian" and the guy with the crystal stars was on "Jason of star command"
I read or heard a rumor somewhere that the woman with the power refused to do a nude scene so when it came to her death. Roger corman blew up her head without her knowledge.. Dont know if that is true but it is interesting
Hi Jen, how about reacting to 1986's Invaders From Mars
I’ll add it to the list, thanks for the suggestion!
@@ReelReviewsWithJen My pleasure Jen
@@ReelReviewsWithJen You should watch the original 1963 version first. It's lower budget and not as flashy, but there's an in-joke in the 86 version that you won't get if you haven't seen the original. Not that it spoils the movie or anything, it's just a neat little addition that they threw in.
10:17, of course it is. That's what make this film so fun to watch.
I don't think Joanie Loves Chachi any more. Shout out to Ray Walston, unforgetable as Uncle Martin in 'My Favorite Martian'. His antenna played a mean theremin. His powers included being able to float objects and turn invisible. I saw a few episodes a few years ago, and was surprised at the quality of Bill Bixby's acting. Walston stayed around for years afterwards, and always played honorable characters. You have to admit, Roger Corman was the king of the Bs, but he had awsome casting, and gave many actors their start. (OK, by 1981 many were already stars, but the stats don't lie.)
Still loving your reactions, Jen. Many genres, many ways to say UURRRRGH.
Fun Fact: James Cameron 'ghost directed' portions of this movie and was appalled at having to film the 'insect' sequence. But hey, Jimmy gotta eat!
Yeah I saw his name listed as second unit director in the credits!
@@ReelReviewsWithJen Yeah, you should do all the 'Alien' knock-offs: Contamination, Alien 2: On Earth, Leviathan, Parasite....
@@xraypunch5959 Creature, Inseminoid, Deepstar Six, and Lily C.A.T.
@@xraypunch5959 great movies 😊
this was your best video yet.. keep it up
Jen, if you like obscure 80's sci-fi you should check out Saturn 3 starring Farrah Fawcett, Kirk Douglas, and Harvey Keitel.
I can’t recommend the GoodBadFlicks episode they did on this movie enough. It was very interesting and informative. You and everyone else who reads this and has a passion for B-movie cheese need to watch it. It really shows how creative the low budget film makers can be. I love that, no matter how bad the movies are, they never total dog the movies. Instead, they poke a little fun, give hilarious plot breakdowns and point out what makes the movie enjoyable, no matter how cheesy. They are awesome, and YOU are awesome.
Final boss -- Mr. Hand.
17:26* What a twist!
9:03* that was a reverse shot.
I saw this as a kid on HBO or Cinemax. I wasn't prepared for that worm/rape scene
6:35, hes gonna climb down the hole with or without their permission.
Space Raiders 1983 is another Roger Corman Movie for your list, its abit similar to Battle beyond the stars.
If I'm not mistaken, the production designer on this film was James Cameron.
I believe you’re right! Definitely unexpected but so cool!
3:35, oh, god, a dead body! Lol!
7:40* Jesus, that scared me!
I forgot this Film had Freddy Kruger in the Cast
You the best Jen!
Awe thank you so much! So kind!
If you've never seen John Waters's cult classic _Pink Flamingos_ (1972), that's one you should definitely check out. Written, produced, directed, narrated, filmed, and edited by John Waters, it is part of what he has labelled the "Trash Trilogy."
Oh I’ve seen it 😬
Oh man, here we go ROFL
I'll just say that I'd rather watch THIS flick than that overblown lumbering snore-fest Avatar! . .. but that's just me. Perhaps I'm weird that way.
Have you ever seen Forbidden Planet (1956)? Parts of it look dated now, but it's a classic and the effects are excellent for the time. It has some humor, but it's not a shlocky movie. It's quite well regarded.
Oh, man! Crazy film but a fun Corman cheapie that James Cameron made look so much better!
Yes! Agreed! I love sci-fi sets!
*Hugs* You made it thru. Crazy movie, right? So schlocky and gory and dumb. A guilty pleasure of mine.
you need to watch his Poe films. really good. best was masque of the red death.
Great movie 🙃
I like Corman movies but a lot of the time they can just be depressing XD
I remember seeing this film about 15 years ago. Its neat to see someone else experience it
Love your reactions, are you a gamer?
Given your affinity for bad movies I'm surprised you haven't done "Toxic Avenger". Or any other Troma movies yet.
At least this one fits most people's definition of terrible movie. lol. At least it gave Jim some early work.
Was Grace Zabrinsky ever young? She must have been born already in middle age!
Thanks for the video!! See you later!! Stay safe.😉
Thanks for watching! You too!
Yessssss 😀
Can you review the OTHER two Corman Alien knock offs, Forbidden World (A.K.A. Mutant) (1982) and The Terror Within (1989)?
Death Race 2000 1975 (staring David Carradine, Sly Stallone and Martin Kove!) is a great wonderful terrible funny movie!!! Death Wish 3 is a unintentional cinematic masterpiece as a funny bad movie!! (Prophetic satire!) Maybe the greatest exploitation of all time. Directed by the coked out slimey and perverted lunatic Michael Winner. May the Devil have mercy on his soul. 🤣🤣🤣❤
Oh! OooH! It just occurred to me! It's not a Corman movie but it's a direct-to-video 80s monster horror cheese fest! But you should review, The Brain from 1988!
I have an interesting possibility for a trifecta, Ms. Jen. Now that you have seen Mr. Corman's Galaxy of Terror, please permit me to recommend three other features from him in the same period.
First, 1980's Battle Beyond the Stars, his "big-budget" entry in the subgenre of Star Wars cash-ins, featuring a smart script by John Sayles of indie film fame, spaceships galore designed and built by James Cameron, and a rousing score by newcomer James Horner.
Secondly, Humanoids from the Deep, also from 1980, also with a score by James Horner, a kind of Creature from the Black Lagoon for the drive-in movie set.
And lastly, 1983's Space Raiders - which is a plum instance of Mr. Corman's resourcefulness at recycling elements from the two previous films PLUS Galaxy of Terror! You may not wish to take my word by itself that these three together make for fascinating film school...but I *really* wish you would!
I always suggest watching Battle Beyond the Stars after The Seven Samurai and The Magnificant Seven, since tMS was a cowboy remake of tSS and BBtS was a SF remake of tMS.
And speaking of John Sayles, he did a very low-budget SF film, The Brother from Another Planet, which Jen might like even though it's not bad.
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Why, I myself assembled a VHS cassette with all three movies! (Actually TWO cassettes; one in chronological order: tSS, tMS, BBtS - and the other in reverse order: 1980, 1960, 1954. 😮 😀
Did you see my movie requests?
This movie is kinda infamous for "The Worm Rape" scene. It is a really bad piece of sci fi.
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I don't believe in just labeling a movie "bad" or "good". I think THAT approach to reviewing is simplistic, un-objective, and stupid and usually say's more about he reviewer than about the movie being discussed. Rather, I think a review should cite and emphasize, in fair and equal measure, BOTH a movies defects and assets. Of course, some movies do tilt further on one scale than on the other, sure. But reviews of THIS kind I really don't trust in terms of evaluating a film (though they can sometimes be amusing if done with any comedic talent).
React to INVADERS FROM MARS (1986)
Hence the term "GOT-fic" for monster sex fetishism, plenty of it on the internet if that's your thing.
Who tricked you in to thinking this is crap?
gguuuuhh
16:29, squeezing her insides!!🤢🤮
9:27* ew!!!🤢🤮
Worst movie ever