Laserblast (1978)

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

To me, this movie is perfection.

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

The credits roll in neon green with constant reminders this is a Charles Band film, so you know its gotta be good. It seems some claymation ETs left behind a weapon that is more of a fire blaster than say a laser blaster. It fits on the right arm and blasts things setting them on fire, eat your heart out Bruce Campbell. Billy Duncan (Kim Milford) stumbles upon it in the desert and learns to master it, as it takes over him.The film is campy and cheesy, but fails to be entertaining in that aspect. This is Eddie Deezen's first acting credit.Guide: No f-bombs. Near sex. Near nudity.

The really bad thing about this movie is the amount of time wasting filler.More than half of this is just people walking or driving with no dialogue or action. The set up is great.A weird looking alien in a Star Trek uniform is stumbling through the desert with a giant laser gun.A space ships flies in and two E.T. style aliens get out with a very small gun.They turn the guy into dust and leave.But the guy's giant laser gun and weird necklace survive somehow.Then they spend way too much time trying to get us to feel sympathy for the main character.He's a rich kid with a hot girlfriend but his mommy doesn't have time for him.The cops hassle him and the other kids make fun of him so he goes to the desert and finds the laser gun and starts blowing up stuff.Then we see that the aliens can see he found the gun and they know they have to come back and stop him.But it's not even the aliens that were there, it was their superior.So they left cameras there and left that laser and only their superior can watch the cameras?It doesn't make any sense and they replay the entire scene of the kid finding gun.This could have been a great short but it's a not so great full length.

This movie is definitely hard to talk about. There is some character development for the main character. It is terrible but better than nothing. There are a lot of cool scenes of this guy just firing a laser, and that is why you are here and why this movie is so enjoyable. The film also has an odd tendency to show every explosion from every possible angle. There are some cool looking aliens that are done with some nice practical effects. There are some long unsubbed dialogue scenes with the aliens but you are too busy enjoying the cool effect that you don't care and what they are saying is pretty easy to figure out. Most of the time you are just looking at the background to see something strange, laughing at how bad the film is, or waiting for the movie to show you something cool. I enjoyed it a lot, but if I would feel guilty if I gave it more than a five.

It's not like anything stands out as truly bad in this movie, it's more so that there is simply absolutely nothing happening in it at all.I can forgive a movie for being bad sometimes, as long as it's entertaining but I can't forgive a movie for being boring and offering me absolutely nothing to enjoy about it.Blame it all on the writing of course. This movie still had the potential in it to be a fun one but the writers obviously had no idea what to with its premise. As a matter of fact, they had a hard time coming up with anything at all, since the movie for most part is just dragging on and filled with some sequences, that in the long run, serve absolutely no purpose for the movie at all.It's really not the worst movie with any of its effects or acting. I mean, it even has Roddy McDowall in it, even though the movie itself can't even spell his name right. The effects are even somewhat good and the movie even had a bit of money to spend it on some decent action.Really not one of the worst movies I have ever seen but it surely is one of the more redundant ones.3/10 http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/