Wow! This movie has it all! Get this: Two scientists go to the moon, in the dodgiest of rockets, and discover nudie (well, okay, topless then) space girls! One of them falls in love with the Empress of the Moon ( a dead ringer for his secretary back on Earth). The professor has got to be seen to be believed. See the two men sitting next to each other and communicating with each other via radio headsets! See the worst space suits ever! See the amazing professor enthuse about plants as moon girls play topless volley ball! Witness very spacey dancing from some of the weirder lunar lovelies! The only movie that makes the Queen of Outer Space seem like 2001! A true kitsch classic, and you can take that from a man who knows his cheese. Nineties remake, anyone?
Reviews
2 Reviews
I Spit on Your Grave
(1978)
That's Entertainment?
20 November 1998
Hmmm, what can you possibly say about this most infamous of exploitation flicks? I find rape scenes in movies disturbing, so the half hour take-it-in-turns rape sequence inflicted on Camille Keaton's character was a pretty gruelling experience.
This film IS graphic, exploitative, unpleasant and cheaply made, but that's all pretty well known. What it isn't is just as interesting, if not quite as headline grabbing. The rape scene may be hard to watch. but at least the film cannot possibly be accused of eroticizing, trivializing or glamourizing rape, something many mainstream movies are guilty of. I've also read that the woman's whole character is pretty 2D - she gets raped, exacts her revenge, the film ends. This is true, but at last it's not one of those cookie cutter revenge movies where the leading guy's girlfriend/wife/sister/mother is raped, giving him a vested proprietary interest in avenging his wronged one, kicking bad guy ass and providing us with mental floss and a good reason to eat popcorn in the dark. At least this film depressed the hell out of me.
Definitely one to avoid if you don't like strong stuff - but we all knew that already. The one good thing you can say about this film is that it wears its exploitation on its sleeve, rather than slipping it into your overpriced, mega-sized cinema soda while you're not looking.
Finally, a big hand to Ed King's Horrortron, which finally gave some people in Dublin the chance to see the film and judge it for themselves.
PS The castration scene rules!
This film IS graphic, exploitative, unpleasant and cheaply made, but that's all pretty well known. What it isn't is just as interesting, if not quite as headline grabbing. The rape scene may be hard to watch. but at least the film cannot possibly be accused of eroticizing, trivializing or glamourizing rape, something many mainstream movies are guilty of. I've also read that the woman's whole character is pretty 2D - she gets raped, exacts her revenge, the film ends. This is true, but at last it's not one of those cookie cutter revenge movies where the leading guy's girlfriend/wife/sister/mother is raped, giving him a vested proprietary interest in avenging his wronged one, kicking bad guy ass and providing us with mental floss and a good reason to eat popcorn in the dark. At least this film depressed the hell out of me.
Definitely one to avoid if you don't like strong stuff - but we all knew that already. The one good thing you can say about this film is that it wears its exploitation on its sleeve, rather than slipping it into your overpriced, mega-sized cinema soda while you're not looking.
Finally, a big hand to Ed King's Horrortron, which finally gave some people in Dublin the chance to see the film and judge it for themselves.
PS The castration scene rules!
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