Space Thing (Special Edition)

Starring:Carla Peterson (II), Merci Montello, Dan Martin, Steve Vincent (II), Paula Pleasure, Karla Conway, Legs Benedict
Director: Byron Mabe
Studio: Image Entertainment
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
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Screwball sci-fi with a galaxy of gorgeous gals! It's Buck Rogers for adults as Col. James Granilla, an alien in human disguise, visits the flying saucer of Captain Mother and her all-girl crew in the year 2069. But because Granilla is a "Planetarian" and all the lovely space nymphs are "Terranians," he seeks to learn all about their "intimate ways." Though Captain Mother, a sadistic, whip-wielding lesbian, frowns on her gals making it with men, everyone wants to get it on with Granilla. When they land on an asteroid (where they need neither oxygen nor clothes), Granilla and the girls share some good old interplanetary passion. Finding himself in the enviable position of ship stud but homesick for his alien wife, Granilla decides to end all the romance with a micro atomic bomb... Full of sexy gals and unspecial effects, "Space Thing" is a hilarious sci-fi skinflick from producer David F. Friedman (Trader Hornee). It's like "Plan 9" in the nude!

Space Thing (Special Edition)
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Beam Me Up, Captain Mother!!

Pajama Party In Space

Friedman's Folly

Sci-Fi On A Shoestring (And A G-String!)

Sci-fi + T&A = Space Oddity!

Space Thing (Special Edition)
Starring: Carla Peterson (II) , Merci Montello , Dan Martin , Steve Vincent (II) , and Paula Pleasure
Director: Byron Mabe
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: 6305944350
Release Date: 2000-08-22

Description

Screwball sci-fi with a galaxy of gorgeous gals! It's Buck Rogers for adults as Col. James Granilla, an alien in human disguise, visits the flying saucer of Captain Mother and her all-girl crew in the year 2069. But because Granilla is a "Planetarian" and all the lovely space nymphs are "Terranians," he seeks to learn all about their "intimate ways." Though Captain Mother, a sadistic, whip-wielding lesbian, frowns on her gals making it with men, everyone wants to get it on with Granilla. When they land on an asteroid (where they need neither oxygen nor clothes), Granilla and the girls share some good old interplanetary passion. Finding himself in the enviable position of ship stud but homesick for his alien wife, Granilla decides to end all the romance with a micro atomic bomb... Full of sexy gals and unspecial effects, "Space Thing" is a hilarious sci-fi skinflick from producer David F. Friedman (Trader Hornee). It's like "Plan 9" in the nude!

Customer Reviews:

Beam Me Up, Captain Mother!!.......2006-12-27

I'm not on here to add a lot in the way of perceptive analysis of "Space Thing," as I don't think this is Shakespeare or Dante. I decided to jump in the discussion because I believe some reviews are unfairly harsh in not considering the type of movie this is. "Space Thing" is not cerebral science fiction that puts you in deep thought like "2001: A Space Odyssey" or "Forbidden Planet." No, this is intended to be a sexy and schlocky film with some sci-fi window dressing, and no serious story intended. If what you want is a film with lots of eye candy, "Space Thing" has several great-looking ladies who come out of their gauzy space suits with the slightest hint, with an interstellar super-stud on board to give them a good excuse to. In that aspect alone I think it rates 4 stars. Picture quality is decent too and is full screen, though of the bonus features only the director commentary amounts to much. To sum up, not much here in the way of story, the sets and costumes are cheesy, acting pretty bad, and special effects are a laugh. But if you enjoy sci-fi films whose claim to fame is T & A with some hot female astronauts, "Space Thing" is a lot of fun. In this regard it's by far the best of the box set that includes "Space Thing," "Nude On the Moon," and "Wham, Bam, Thank You Spaceman," which are all the same type of movie.

Pajama Party In Space.......2004-08-28

This is a poorly made adult space spoof from the late 1960s, and despite the fact that I normally like the Something Weird line, this one is probably best left on the shelf. The print of the film is much better than most films of this generation, and the color is excellent, but besides that and a few not unattractive girls, it does not have much to recommend it.

The acting here is very bad and the sets would have made Ed Wood blush. The movie begins with a guy fighting with his wife about the plausibility of some sci-fi magazines he was reading, then quickly he becomes a space refugee stranded in what appears to be a model of part of the USS Enterprise (from "Star Trek") but he refers to as a "small space canoe." We later learn that he was saved from a collision that killed all his crewmates by his "supersonic sneakers."

He pulls along this saucer that must be seen to be believed, and comes aboard. You will note that everyone is wearing some form of pajamas, including the cat-suited female Captain. Perhaps the biggest spectacle of the film is the hair on these women. (Well, that and the blue eye shadow.) We see a bit of life onboard the spaceship (do not miss the toast performed at mealtime!) and then realize that our protagonist is out to destroy this ship as they are sworn enemies.

Because of his sabotage, they are forced to land on an asteroid (which looks exactly like the desert of Southern California), which they all explore in gauzy gowns. They basically wander around the desert scheming against each other while bad pan flute music plays in the background, further annoying the audience. Before it is over we get to see a very bad ray gun effect, a game of space checkers (which is a clear rip off of the "Star Trek" three dimensional chess) and the power of a "micro atomic bomb!" The best scene in the film is when the protagonist looks longingly at a picture of his family. You will laugh so hard you may fall off the sofa.

The film comes with a commentary track from Producer David F. Friedman, who reveals, among other things, that the entire film was made for $17,000 and was shot on 35mm stock, which means the actors must have been very well compensated, indeed...

There are two shorts, "Roll Oh Robot" is a futuristic tale of a robot butler and the hilarity he causes (he has a unique vacuum foot attachment that would be kind of useful), and "Dance of Tomorrow" is a little musical nightmare you might have seen on MST3K, featuring ugly fashions, and even uglier cars.

Overall, this has some funny moments, most of which involve "special" effects, but there are better Something Weird titles out there.

Friedman's Folly.......2002-07-19

"Screwball sci-fi" is a misleading label for SPACE THING; it's a boring pseudo-sex film whose only saving grace is a quartet of attractive starlets.

Producer David Friedman says that SPACE THING was made because, as of 1967, no one had yet made a sci-fi nudie movie. But apart from the "outer space" setting, there is no legitimate science- fiction in SPACE THING. The derivative spaceship sets and costumes are really all that separate SPACE THING from, for example, BOAT THING or TRAIN THING.

The narrative structure of SPACE THING is compartmentalized to allow for all the staple elements of Friedman's "adult" entertainment, but without a plot there's no purpose to anything that happens, beyond serving as mere spectacle.

So SPACE THING unsurprisingly works best as a spectacle. The sex scenes are tepid and truncated, but the women are very pretty. The color print used by Something Weird is gorgeous. But since this film is of the substance and character of cotton candy, SPACE THING badly needs a second feature to bring the disc up to snuff. The HEAD MISTRESS/FANNY HILL DVD (a Friedman double-feature from Something Weird) is a much better value.

This "special edition" is for Friedman/SWV completists and the most rabid (i.e., uncritical) sci-fi collectors only.

Sci-Fi On A Shoestring (And A G-String!).......2001-03-05

If you like to see big-breasted babes cavorting in the nude, you will enjoy this movie. If you like low-budget sci-fi with laughable special effects, you will enjoy this movie. If you like a story that makes some sense, however, you will not find one here. Even filmmaker Friedman, in his commentary, laments the lack of plot in this genre entry in the nudie-cutie field. He admits that if it were not a softcore effort, with only naked girls to provide interest, it would probably be considered a worse film than the classic Plan 9 from Outer Space. Ed Wood probably had a bigger budget on Plan 9 than Friedman had here!

The special effects? Colored cotton balls for asteroids, and plastic models bought in a hobby shop for the spaceships, hung on thread to simulate flight. One of them is a model of the flying saucer from the TV series The Invaders and the other is a model of the good ship Enterprise from Star Trek, saucer section removed, and hung upside down! Friedman says he wasn't even aware that it was upside down while making the movie! Evidently he wasn't a Trekker.

But he was a fan of the pulp magazines in his youth, in particular Amazing Stories (as was Steven Spielberg!) and Planet Stories. The latter especially because of its lurid covers which always featured a scantily-clad woman in danger from a horrible monster of some sort. He says he wanted to capture some of the sexy fun of those colorful covers, and to a degree, he did, by uncovering some sexy girls with impressive special effects of their own.

The commentary is about the only interesting thing in the special features of this DVD. There's an overlong and somewhat boring gallery of poster art, repetitive and not too well done, a couple of short subjects, scene index, trailer, and that's about it. If you want sci-fi on a shoestring, and a G-string, this movie's for you!

Sci-fi + T&A = Space Oddity!.......2000-10-12

I love this DVD! Well, to be honest, I've only watched it with the filmmaker's commentary on, but trust me, you aren't missing much!

David Friedman sits down with video distributor Mike Varney (sp?) to discuss the making of this obscure "nudie cutie," and Friedman is none-too-hesitant to call it the worst film ever made. He's not far off. As stated before, watching the movie without the commentary is needless, there's nothing to it really. Lots of T&A, some space ship models and some very bare sets (no pun intended). The stories that Friedman and Varney recount are the best part, from the history of the theaters this type of movie played in, to how Friedman got around the legalities of using the Starship Enterprise in this celluloid schlock.

Product Description

The legends of Science Fiction are gathered here for you in this definitive DVD collection of some of the greatest Sci-Fi classics to ever come out of Hollywood. This 8 DVD collection is sure to provide you with countless hours of entertainment. Volume 8 includes: Horror Express directed by Eugenio Martin and starring Christopher Lee; Attack of the Monsters directed by Noriaki Yuasa and starring Christopher Murphy; Killers From Space directed by W. Lee Wilder and starring Peter Graves; Son of Hercules in the Land of Darkness directed by Lewis Mann and starring Dan Vadis; Zontar, The Thing From Venus directed by Larry Buchanan and starring John Agar; Planet Outlaw directed by Harry Revier and starring Buster Crabbe; Cosmos: War of the Planets directed by Alfonso Brescia and starring John Richardson; Night Fright directed by James A. Sullivan and starring John Agar

Customer Reviews:

A Seemingly Random Collection Of B-Movies.......2006-09-11

This is an interesting collection of sci-fi movies. Interesting, because I can detect absolutely nothing in common between most of the features, although two star John Agar. Many of these movies are available in other multi-packs or by themselves, and in some cases the other prints are much better. Most of these prints are noticeably dark, and that is especially true of "Night Fright," "Horror Express," and "Cosmos: War of the Planets."

The movies range from laughable to awful, which gives me pause trying to rationalize the eight movies I watched with the promotional copy that goes with them: "The legends of Science Fiction are gathered here for you in this definitive DVD collection of some of the greatest Sci-Fi classics to ever come out of Hollywood." Definitive? Greatest? What movies were they talking about?

I particularly liked disc two, the "Agar Fest" which has two movies starring John Agar, "Night Fright," a mundane thriller about a monster from space, and "Zontar, the Thing From Venus," a much more enjoyable (though laughable) film about, well, a monster from space. "Killers From Space" is an especially amusing piece of sci-fi horror, while "Horror Express" has real stars like Christopher Lee, and an absolutely mesmerizing performance by Telly Savalas as a Cossack Captain, who apparently just finished the William Shatner acting school curriculum. Any of the "Son of Hercules" films are tortuous, but this one at least has a man in the mangiest bear suit I have ever seen (and features a fight with a lion somewhat less realistic than Michael Palin in "Scott of the Antarctic.") The other movies fit somewhere between these highs and lows.

Overall this is not a great set: it has no discernable theme, it has exceptionally spartan packaging, and it has very dark prints in many cases. I would try to find these films in other packages. Most of the films are worthwhile for a B-movie fan (except the Hercules debacle) though, so if the price is low enough, this could fit the bill.

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