Big McLargehuge, Captain Santa and Sexy Grandma battle Diabolik in a South African power station while Battlestar Galactica FX footage plays endlessly.
This was fantastic. I'm always fascinated by the stories behind movies like this, and I have a special affection for them. Frank Conniff (of MST3K fame) once said that no one will ever accuse Ed Wood of being a great director, but you have to admit he had heart, and he never gave up his dream. Stuff like that - or hell, just wanting to prove a point like with Manos: Hands of Fate - is admirable in a way. For now, I will gladly put my trust in Blast Hardcheese.
Well Reb Brown these days is showing up at autograph sessions for Capt. America, and him and Cissy are still happily married. He's had a long career in showbiz, maybe not Oscar material, but whatever. They are doing fine.
I’ve had so much fun watching this over the years, I wish I could meet Reb Brown and his wife Cisse. I can’t imagine what people were thinking when this was being filmed. Obviously, John Phillip Law was in on the joke.
John was the only one who seemed to really enjoy playing his character. He had to have known the movie would be a flop, so he hammed it up as much as he could.
Look, if you're an actor and you realize you're in a turkey, you have two choices: one, you can phone it in, collect your paycheck, and escape with your dignity; or two, you can go full ham and be the only thing enjoyable about the movie. I always appreciate those actors who go with option 2.
Space Mutiny was one of the many so-called "subsidy scandal" films made in South Africa which almost ruined the legacy of Africa's oldest film industry. On a personal note, one of my career mentors, Vincent Cox ASC photographed this.
David A Prior’s Felony is a low budget rollercoaster ride with a who’s who of character actors - including the unexpectedly very effective casting of Jeffrey Combs as our hero 🦸♂️
I wish Cissy Cameron had been in more stuff. She’s not a great talent by any stretch of the imagination, but she certainly had the looks to be a cult 80s icon.
I frigging love this movie. Whenever I watch it, I imagine a pristine copy must sit on Reb Brown's shelf, and they make relatives watch it anytime they have company for the holidays.
0:20 "Several questions have hung over the film ever since" Questions like "Why?" and "What did we ever do to you, David Winters?" and "For the love of God WHY?!?"
John Phillip Law’s performance in this film is a perfect example of not so much chewing the scenery as swallowing it whole 😆 (a phrase i’m borrowing from Robin Bales of *Dark Corners Reviews* here on YT 😄)
Up until recently, one of the Electric one man Buggies were parked in a lot close by. I dont know why I never asked to look at it closely. From what I saw was a Car Battery, a Electric Motor, and a Chain to drive the Axel. Only now, I know what it was used for, and its since disappeared.
As one of many that was first exposed to Space Mutiny through MST3K, I can't help but be fascinated with the makings of some of the movies featured on the show, if only to find out what the hell they were thinking with some of these. Cisse Cameron once actually claimed it was "meant to be a spoof of sci-fi films", but I don't buy that for a second. Either way, great video. I'd kinda like to see some more like these "Oddities and Obscurities" videos, especially if they involve movies featured on MST3K and RedLetterMedia and the like. "We put our faith in Blast Hardcheese."
Cisse pulled the "we made it bad on purpose" card? Seriously? She claimed that it was "intentionally terrible"? Wow. She's one of THEM now. I can't believe it!
A couple of years ago I actually contacted NBC (I think it was NBC) to try and find out. I was researching a book on Star Wars clones and it was crazy how often I came across the same shots. They couldn't tell me, but they did give me access to their stock footage site where each shot was individually listed and still available for anyone to buy and use. For a moment I had dreams about making Space Mutiny 2.
Though it only gets a brief mention, I just wanted to gush for a second about Joe Spinell's masterful acting in The Last Horror Film. It's a great example of an actor completely transforming the material with the force of their immense talent.
3:45 as shown here he was in exactly two tv movies as you described and not even a version of Captain America that was around during WWII in the second one the van also had a hangglider
Still can't find 1983s dreadfully hilariously bad Entity Force, about a lumpy old dead dude with telekinetic powers..check the corpse dummies on rollerskates.
I wish you would have touched on (or maybe you didn't notice) how all of the scenes that are not in the industrial plant are in the same single room and short hallway, simply redressed a bit for whatever the scene required.
I'm going to assume if you're here, you're aware of the MST3K's riff of Space Mutiny. If you haven't heard of it, track it down, you won't be disappointed.
I have it on vhs, got for .99 in a bargain bin at Best Buy 25 years ago. Initially I thought I overpaid, but over the years I've gotten so much joy from it.
One of my new favourite channels. Not just clips of bad films (as wonderful as that is) but cut and edited with real love for the genre.I'll be snapping up the book shortly.
So many important questions answered! And even when they aren't answered, it's important that you asked! - Thank you Bad Movie Bible, for teaching us to laugh, all over again.
So, Universal will let me take any space scenes from the original Battlestar Galactica, but throw copyright at anybody so much as talk about the 1993 animated show Exosquad. Of course, NBC/Universal seems to have lightened up on that a little. Now it's anybody that shows any scene from Exosquad gets a free DMCA thrown at them.
As a huge fan of mst3k i really really appreciate these videos! I just subbed and im waste deep and having a blast splashing in the backlog ! Keep it up!!!!❤ Im seeing alot of AIP in my future..
Thank you for putting your faith in Blast Hardcheese and making this video. Maybe if David Winters had stayed cool-y cool, boy, this movie could have been better? Nah.
