Movies

Mysterious Planet (1982) Ambitious amateur SF made in New Hampshire USA - it's Verne's Mysterious Island, only it's a planet instead. What it lacks in budget and finish it makes up in enthusiasm, with space models, stop motion monsters and full-size monster heads, matte paintings and every variety of old-school special effect. Director Brett Piper apparently went into the direct-to-video kitschy monster movie field after this, the kind of movie that has to pretend it's a joke because it knows it kind of sucks. This one is still naive enough to take itself seriously, even though they can't always keep things in frame or set the aperture right, and the final dubbing was never done properly in some sequences. Not entirely watchable, but interesting as an artifact and admirable for its audacity. 4/10

The Great and Terrible

UPSIDE DOWN CHIN WITH EYES DRAWN ON,

talking to a little model person.