From: dascoser.bbs@cybernet.cse.fau.edu
Subject: Re: Robot Holocaust? Ninja films?
Organization: Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 05:00:30 GMT

ph@cs.uow.edu.au (Phillip Herring) writes:

> ken@batman.austin.ibm.com (Ken Goach) writes:
> 
> 
> >I saw "Robot Holocaust" at the video store. I know I've seen
> >this mentioned here before, but I can't remember what was
> >said about it. Anyone want to review/recommend/pan it for
> >me?
> 
> 
> Thank heavens I kept this.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Film Review: "Robot Holocaust"
> 
> Hi! Phil here, the king of schlock. You know, sometimes
> people say to me, "Phil, why do you watch so many bad
> movies?" And I reply, "Because they are there."
> 
> Take "Robot Holocaust". It was there in the video shop, in
> the SciFi section. Why not hire it? It was new, it was
> released by Virgin, who've taken to putting out bad
> SciFi/Horror movies of late ("Slave Girls from Beyond
> Infinity", "Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-o-Rama", and
> "Waldo Warren, Private Dick without a Brain" spring to mind.)
> Why not hire it and inject more garbage into my head? It
> beats the hell out of drugs.
> 
> So, much to the annoyance of my spouse and the spouse of my
> friend who was with me, I hired it. (Later on I blamed him
> for the choice.) And I was surprised. This is a very funny
> film! Unintentionally funny, but funny nevertheless.
> 
> Another post-holocaust movie: this time, robots rule the
> earth, controlled by an evil being whose identity and
> significance elude me for the moment. There arises a man who
> decides to overthrow this evil being for some pretext that I
> have forgotten. On his way he encounters amazon women (no,
> not from the moon - from New York!), one of whom accompanies
> him to the city where the evil being lives.
> 
> And this is where it gets exciting, because the evil being's
> chief hench-person is Valaria (not Malaria, which is what it
> sounds like in the movie.) Valaria is acted by a woman called
> Angelika Jager, who plays it the the hilt in the most
> brilliantly appropriate style for this film! At first you
> might think, "My god, this bimbo can't act for peanuts!" (I
> know I did.) But wait! There must be more to this: there is
> so little talent here, but so much damn style with it, surely
> this actress knows exactly what she's doing? Surely she's
> just PRETENDING to act badly? I tell you, this woman is a
> comic GENIUS! Her part had me rolling on the floor in
> stitches. She clearly KNEW the film was schlock, and adjusted
> her performance accordingly!
> 
> Look, it's a bad movie, I don't deny that. But it ranges out
> into that rare cinema genre, the Bad Film. It's so bad it's
> good: from the mincing robot playing the part of C3PO, to the
> voice of the Evil One who sounds like 'Deep Thought' from the
> Hitch-Hiker's Guide, it's all there. Cliches, bad acting,
> trash script and a budget so small that all the special
> effects were glove puppets (no! It's true! See for yourself!)
> Watch out for "Bizzarchitecture" in future films - if this is
> their idea of special effects, I can scarcely imagine what
> they'll do next!
> 
> Watch this tape. It's good for the soul. Treat yourself to
> some schlock for a change, you won't regret it.
> 
> 
> -- Phil.
> -- 
> 
> -- Phil.
> ==========================================================================
>         These opinions (c) 1992 Phil Herring (ph@cs.uow.edu.au)

It was also done in the first season of MST3K. One of my favorite 
episodes.

Dascoser
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