Monday, October 09, 2006

Starcrash Rules

There's a new 'Making of' book due soon on this Italian Sci-Fi gem. I know for a fact Curtis Jobling loves this film, he just won't admit it.

11 comments:

Matt Jones said...

Just came across this flick in Paris - didn't realise it was Italian. It has David Hasselhoff in it right?

Andrew Glazebrook said...

Yeah David Hasslehoff with eye shadow !! It got released in 1979

Michael Grant Clark said...

Never seen it but I remember not being able to open a Starlog or any other film mag in the 80's without seeing it mentioned somewhere. Is it like all the other fantasy/sf films from Europe at the time and total pants?

I think i lost a lung laughing at Battle Beyond the Stars.

Andrew Glazebrook said...

Starcrash makes Battle Beyond the Stars look like 2001:A Space Odyssey.

Tidyfiguremaker said...

I think it looks amazing!

paulhd said...

Hey hey, that sounds dangerously like dissing BBTS!!? Come on, classsic lines like 'Have you ever seen a Valkirie go down' make it a nudge nudge classic. Didn't James Cameron do the FX for it before Escape From New York?

Andrew Glazebrook said...

I'm not dissing BBTS I love it. :) James Cameron designed some of the ships and the interiors and also did some of the FX work on this and a few other Roger Corman movies around that time.

Brian Sibley said...

So much stuff all jumbled together: 'Star Wars', 'Flash Gordon', 'Barbarella', 'Star Wars', '2001' AND ' Jason and the Argonauts' --- PLUS Hasslehoff AND the Other Half of 'The Sound of Music'! FAB!!

Robiscus said...

i totally remember this being released here in the states in the late 70s. i was juts a kid and i couldn't tell the difference between Star Crash and Star Wars. i remember looking at the poster at a movie threater for a matinee of Star Wars.

wild.

ross cuthbert said...

this looks bloody mint! when's it coming out?

Mad Guru said...

Wow! This is...amazing.