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This was awesome

posted 3 years ago by PersistentViewer (2407)
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Very "short" Sci-Fi movie, only being 76 minutes long, but it's everything you want from an 80's sci-fi film.

This film has so many interesting ideas. When Jack

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swam in the ocean, you see cities above the ocean, which were really intriguing. The weaponry was also really nice.

It's always awesome when dead bodies in 70's, 80's sci-fi disappear with a glow.

The villain was good. Helen Hunt was so pretty, and played her part well. The Zombie effects were interesting.

The world Jack lived in, looked awesome.

All in all, I loved it.

[–] rateater (10076) a year ago

i thought it was influenced by terminator, but both came out in 84

[–] MikeCable (1860) 6 months ago

Always been a fave of mine. Love the period synth music too.

Tim Thomerson is also in Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn, another low-budget sci-fi from the 1980s, this time 1983.

[–] Roguemail (1614) 6 months ago

I loved the tag line for this...

"Jack Deth is back...and he's never been here before!"

I believe it was a Charles Band production, who produced a lot of cheap horror and sci fi films in the 80s, some of them rip offs of other movies such as Ghoulies, a Gremlins rip off. They usually had a lot of latex monsters, which looked cheesy even back then.

[–] MikeCable (1860) 6 months ago

Great tagline! Yeah, I own a number of Charles Band's movies.

One of the first movies I ever saw as a kid in a cinema was Metalstorm.