Star Slammer

just plain awful
this is a very boring film. It has potential for camp, but doesn't utilize it. Is this the same Fred Olen Ray who directed the classics "Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers" and "Bikini Hoe-Down"? Where is the humor in this flick?

It has the look of sci-fi T&A, but practically no T or A.

The acting, as might be expected, is horrible (althouth the lead is pretty and engaging), but so is the dialogue and plotting. What is John Carradine doing in his cameo?

Not great, but not AWFUL! A "GROANER"
I had the opportunity to see this film BEFORE it was released.
I got so lucky because the female lead in this movie, Sandy Brooke, was my STEP-SISTER at the time, so the whole family was anxious to see it. I still have the PRE-RELEASE version on tape.

I DO wish that the makers of the film had had a little bigger F/X budget. Some of the F/X shots in this movie came from "BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS". Others from the TV series "BUCK ROGERS IN THE 25th CENTURY". I really hate it when film makers do things like that.

I have to agree with "A VIEWER from North Carolina", STAR SLAMMER had the potential for camp, but didn't quite make it. HOWEVER, I do NOT think it's awful. It's a good movie if you want to have a few chuckles. As I said, it's a "GROANER", but that doesn't make it AWFUL! (I say that with love Sis, just in case you read this review)

Some of the fun of this movie comes from knowing a few of the BEHIND-THE-SCENES secrets...

"How Do You Like Being A Can Opener?"
"Star Slammer" is an outer space women-in-prison flick from the great schlockmeister Fred Olen Ray, who is also featured as the Mouse Robot. The movie is very tongue-in-cheek and offers several amusingly subtle references to earlier horror films such as "The Brain From Planet Arous", while simultaneously satirizing every cliche in the genre: note especially the appearance by John Carradine as "The Judge" in his 223rd of 235 films.

The film follows Taura from a traumatic battle on planet Arous with Bantor (who ends up with an unsightly and ridiculous hand injury), her subsequent imprisonment on the spaceship prison, her torment, her unhappy reunion with Bantor (and his can opener hand), and eventual revolt and jail break while paying homage to predecessor science fiction classics. The film features an odd cast including midgets with pots on their heads, an ultra-strange orthodox priest of some type, Zaal, played wonderfully by Johnny Legend, and hilarious and pompous...

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