Brandon's Cult Movie Reviews: SPACEHUNTER: ADVENTURES IN THE FORBIDDEN ZONE 

Spacehunter: The first 3-D movie that puts YOU in space...and by space we mean the desert...

I kinda love Overdog's expression right before he says "I lied." You can almost hear him think "Wow. She really is *that* dumb."

We in the big leagues now fellas, Brandon got himself a sponsorship.

The "I'm not a dirty scav and I'm not out of diapers" line is both hilarious and brilliant, it's exactly the kind of response someone gives when they don't fully understand an insult that's just been thrown at them.

This was filmed in my hometown. “Horny junkyard people” is pretty darn accurate actually.

As long as you don't tone down the foul language and the offensive jokes I'm really glad you got a sponsor

"Ray, When Someone Asks You If You're A God, You Say Yes!" -Winston, Ghostbusters

Brandon: spends 20 minutes complaining about Molly Ringwald Me: "You could've had Tanya Roberts y'know. "

The middle part is what we pencil and paper gamers know as random encounters. :)

Michael Ironsides he's my favorite villain character. And I heard he's a pretty nice guy in real life.

I’ve watched Brandon for 2.5 years now, still an underrated channel even now

"Three thousand mega credits! Shit, that's like a million fuck-ton bucks" Okay, that line had me in tears.

"God's bukake-ing all over the audience" and "Pretty in Stink" had me rolling!!! Love the channel!!!

As soon as his Fembot dies I was all, "Welp...gonna have to get Melanie Griffith to take him to Zone 7 to get a new one."

Molly Ringwald wasn't whining, she was just practicing her teen angst for all the John Hughes films she was about to do. Love your channel.

Into the Zone "But is it the Forbidden Zone?" No, Brandon, it's the Auto Zone.

This was the movie my late father took me to see in the theatre so I could experience a 3D movie. I kept those cardboard glasses with the red and blue cellophane lenses for years - just because the outing had made him so happy. I don't think he necessarily liked the movie, but he'd gone to 3D movies in the 50s and wanted to take his daughter to one.

It looks like a cross between Star Wars and Mad Max.

"...now put your cigarettes out on her. Now make her walk on all those rat traps. Now make her do long division. Aahhh, that's the stuff." - Overdog

I wish there was an adult version of this film. It's similar to Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome in a way. They toned down the violence and nudity to make it kid friendly, but it's way too creepy and scary for kids anyway.

I remember watching this movie on a Saturday morning on HBO. I love Michael Ironside as Overdog.

While you were making all the Heavy Metal references, I'd been thinking about how Michael Ironside played the villain in "Heavy Metal: Fakk 2". His role in that movie was somewhat similar to Overdog.

brandon you were dead on with that Utah refer. it was filmed in Moab utah. a couple of my friends were extras. this one canadian guy who was a "vehicle assistant" was stupid enough to get drunk at the local biker bar and insult a sundowner (the utah answer to hells angels) and after doing a stint at the local hospital was shipped home. they rented an old fenced in garage, and only came out to buy food and work after that incident.

This was one of my childhood favourites, I've build so many lego-vehicles and sets, inspired by the aesthetic of the movie. It was also my gateway movie into the post-apocalyptic genre.

I always loved this movie .love the lingo Molly Ringwald uses..I remember it was playing on the drive -in screen behind us and I kept turning around to watch it because whatever movie we were watching must have been boring...Earthers Rule!!!

A Sponsorship, huh? Looks like Brandon is moving on up. Congrats!

Adventures plural in the Forbidden Zone. Hence that episodic second act. I always liked that about this movie, a little like the Odyssey or the Argonauts.

I genuinly got frightened when Chalmers melted. And had a crush on Nikki. 11:55 - those are mutant bat-people.

I think one of the main reasons I enjoy movies from this era is the fact that I’m watching real people interacting with real things. SO MUCH of this would be CGI now, but I get to enjoy real creature costumes, real badass vehicles and real ironside buffoonery.

Love learning about tons of movies through your channel, it's been helping me expand my collection!!

Amazing how many of these type of movies that Brandon has reviewed are in my personal collection. This movie has an Ice Pirates feel and look, imo.

Everyone hated Ashoka Tano when she appeared in Clone Wars. Molly Ringwold: "Hold my six pack of beer!!!"

Great, now I need to re-watch "Heavy metal" AND "Scanners"! Thanks, Brandon! No seriously, thanks, this review was great.

This movie's like the entire 80's sci fi genre got hucked into a blender on liquidate, then fed through a diesel engine, lol. It's fantastic. I always kinda felt it looked like the Fist of the North Star movie.

Hey Brandon thanks for your hard work of knowledging us with all these old school movies!

its rly nice to see how much the artist of the thumbnails for your vids has improve over all these years.

My Ma was a huge Peter Strauss fan, my earliest memories were watching. ‘Rich Man Poor Man’ with her. She also loved sci-fi, so when this was released on British TV, we watched together. I will always remember her eyes lighting up, saying with glee, “However do they think of all these amazing things!?” Miss you so, so much, Ma.

5:31 "A planet overtaken by a plague allowing the government to become a dictatorship"...Why does that sound vaguely familiar?

“my sex robot 🤖 died and no age of consent in space… want to come with me?” truer words were never spoken. 🤣🤣🤣

Brandon is a little hard on Wolf sometimes with Ringwalds character Nicky. He was a perfect appropriate mentor to her and even sacrificed easy money in the intersest of Nicky's well being and safety. As bizarre as the environment was, throwing in a fifteen year old New Wave grunge girl as Wolf's impromptu sidekick was weird as well on the screenwriters part. Wolf handled the situation with class and style, never a hint of anything inappropriate with Nicky implied in the least. You gotta give him props for being a trustworthy...if not kinda cranky at being constantly thrust into the role of antihero rescuer.....adult.

@11:48 I have friend who worked on this movie. Those bulbous, white, puffy gelatinous creatures were a mistake! Originally, the creatures that were requested for that scene were "Bat Men", but someone couldn't write very well and wrote "Fat Men" by mistake. The SPFX people got the request, came up with a design, and made a whole batch of Fat Men costumes. By the time the mistake was discovered, it was too late to change it back! True story.

A series of increasingly difficult encounters ending with a boss fight, while great for an RPG, is pretty difficult to shoehorn into a three-act dramatic structure. I wonder if they were shooting for a video game tie-in like Conan the Destroyer. (That also never made it to release)

I loved that movie as a kid , recently watched it again in my mid forties with my wife and we now have a running gag of the part when Wolf smells Molly and does the smelling thing lol, when I'm dirty and didn't shower or vive-versa. Underrated gem.

I swear this movie was on every Saturday when I was a kid!

I remember getting this off my parents on VHS back in the 80's but the only thing I could remember was Molly Ringwalds bath scene, and the squishy dudes attacking, and Ernie Hudson of course.

RAY CONS are awesome. They make Brandon Tenold's voice sound like Orson Welles.

Legit, really happy to see you get a sponsor Brandon, with all of the quality content you've uploaded over the years, I can absolutely say you've earned it.

I'd read that Michael Ironside had been set up in the costume on a crane with the big claw things, they did some filming, called lunch, and everybody forgot that he was stuck in costume hanging in the air and hungry while everybody went off and ate. Some of the set designs are great - the one with the "water Amazons" is cool, looking like an organic metal swamp. I've always wondered what the "mutant baby" costumes were from, were they something a costume rental house had lying around or were they created for this movie. I could swear I've seen something similar in other movies.

Peter Stauss washing a 15-year old Molly Ringwald against her will is a sight to behold. Ah, the 80s. Different times.

Oh man, I totally forgot about this movie. I LOVED this when I was a kid. I saw it in the theater, and for a 8 year old this was fun times. Not a masterpiece as you said Brandon, but certainly a fun (I think) well made sci-fi underrated gem.

Looks like that train sequence was then stolen and used in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)

Awesome. Next you should do "Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared Syn. In 3D!"

Oh nebulous they're such the bane of ships. Although in Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan we had a very good space battle in a nebula.

They reused those umbrella bikes in the live action Fist of the Northstar movie

This is awesome!! I definitely feel like this movie coming out a week before Return of the Jedi (and certainly being buried by RotJ) helped kill it; it is definitely a bit derivative but there's some really fun ideas here.

It's one of the mysteries of the universe that Molly Ringwald was ever hired again after this movie. That voice could kill an elephant at 50 yards. I love the way Overdog/Ironside makes a show of thinking for a second before answering "I lied."

This was one of my favorite movies as a kid.

A fun staple of cable TV for me growing up. I loved Michael Ironside's delivery on 'I lied.' Gets me every time.

Glad you got a sponsor, but I really enjoy how you say "ray-con" with all the affect of Bruce Willis in...anything from the last decade. They don't let sponsorees improvise at all on their rote speech, do they? I can almost recite it by heart at this point.

keep up the good work man love all your videos

About the hotdog comment, "it's made from pigeons and squirrels, now do you want some or not?"..... I'm freaking dying here!!!! I almost pissed myself!

Hell yeah was just about to take a break see whats on the tube, TY Brandon for making this a good day,bowl packed video started....let us rock

My brother used to work at the cinema back in the 80s, and Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone, was one of the movie posters he brought home

Well, after this, we need Metalstorm, another 80's sci-fi movie which feels a lot like this.

Love the channel. I just wish you made more shows. Keep up the good work.

12:33 The “SLOWLY!” Got me😂🤣

I had completely forgotten about that safety ad about the android, Canada had a lot of trippy commercial inserts like that in the 90's.

I have seen the Raycon on many of my fave sites, but with you being sponsored, I did it! Love your channel!

That Fuck ton bucks line was gold!

I saw this for the first time a year or two back and my first thought was "Oh Brandon's gonna wanna do this one". It finally happened.

The "Astar the Robot" segment was a nice Canadian touch. The special effects in that commercial were ahead of their time. Back then I was quite impressed.

love all the great reviews

8:00 - when Wolf opens Chalmers' pod, the book on her chest is R.U.R., short for Rossum's Universal Robots, a play that's the origin of the word "robot". That's a surprisingly cerebral in-joke for such a quintessential B-movie.

Glad you got a good sponsor man. Happy that your channel is growing

Man, i was looking for this movie in ages, but that was a long long time ago. I kinda ran into it on TV, but i only got to see the end of it, or something like the last third. As i never saw the title, i couldn't find it on rental, or later on on the net. But now i do! This has such a charming style and now i know where it got it from!

Classic. Saw this at the cinema as a double-header with Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn. Still good, silly fun.

I remember this from a kid, and I've been trying to figure out what movie this was. Thanks Brandon!!

Holy Shit. I loved this movie as a kid. I would remember the overlords face and voice sometimes (like twenty years later) but I had no clue where it was from. I would've completely forgotten about this. You're just really fucking cool sometimes dude. Thanks!

Congrats bud on the sponsors you have some of the best content out there

The Goblin Valley, Utah location was later used in Galaxy Quest.

Spacehunter was one of the enjoyable 80's post-apocalyptic movies. I still love it, Molly and all.

Hope you get more subscribers man. Love this series

Wow Brandon, haven't seen your reviews in a while, loved it

I was in Vancouver when this was being filmed at Bridge Studios. If I recall - there was a contest to win one of the "fat slimer alien" suits.....

Wow, i just realized that i have seen this movie as a child, i had no idea what it was called or that it was even something that i really saw, and was not just some fever dream mishmash of multiple other films mixed together from the fading memories of my childhood.

I do not recall a reference to this film since the day I saw it… and even that was forgotten until now. Thanks man; you’ve come through again 🤘😁👌

Genuinely happy to see a brand deal, this channel has be a favorite of my for so long. Nice to see it get the recognition it deserves. I think I could safely say this is my favorite RU-vid channel. I’ve been watching the channel since I was a kid and the videos never get any less entertaining. I hostly see you almost like a friend, which I hope doesn’t sound too creepy.

That opening theme is low-key amazing, can just about hear it behind Brandon talking.

Heavy Metal magazine circa 1983 is a WHOLE VIBE.

I'm giving a thumbs up for a hilarious review and on the strength of that creepy War amps commercial reference. Man that used to freak me out as a kid. Lol I don't remember what I was doing when this movie made it's premier but I know exactly what 7 year old me was doing 7 days later! I remember the free program we got at that Jedi premier had an add for this movie and Jaws 3! I actually still have the program all these years later :) Cheers from Montreal

Dang! Just yesterday (literally!) I was trying to remember the name of this movie. Thank you!

Nice time to see movies i never knew about

I like her... I like her for the maze! I totally remember that line.

Keep up the great reviews.

11:55 The companion mentioned in the dialogue that the "chemist" kidnaps people / children and experiments on them. That's why she doesn't want to enter the zone and is afraid of this particular chemist.

I look forward to these :)

Holy crap I've been looking for this film for ages. I watched it as a kid years ago but never remembered the title.

Slowwwly! Good lord that's amazing! Thanks for doing this one... I swear I thought I had seen it. I don't remember it at all lol

I would have never imagined the guy who plays Sam Fisher would be in a movie where he's moonlighting as Dustin Rhodes "Seven" character from WCW

Fuckin ayye Yeah! I been hoping you'd come back with another kickass review dude! Missed ya!