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Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone [1983] (REGION 1) (NTSC)


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Rare film that could become a classic,grab it when you can!
Review date: 2007-05-24 Rating: 8 out of 10

This is one of those films that gets overlooked and is not available in retail stores,very rarely shown on TV and on verge of cult status due to originaly being filmed in 3D in the 80's.

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Space Hunter, but not much space!
Review date: 2007-03-19 Rating: 8 out of 10

I remember seeing this movie on a late night showing on ITV in the late 80's and I got to say it caught my interest. Over the years I taped it on VHS, watched for a few months then taped over it, then taped it again and so on and so on. So in the end I purchased it on DVD and was impressed with the overall content and better picture quality than my old VHS copies. The story is simple one, a guy goes to rescue a bunch of bimbo's for a bunch of money from a bunch of bad guys, makes friends with a teenage girl, through out the movie they fight and eventually bond. The guy meets an old friend, who both sell each other out a few times then remain best of buddies, the bimbos are saved and all ends happily. This movie is like a future version of Mad Max, all the machinery has been repaired a thousand times an things need to be kicked a few times to work. Peter Strauss pulls of a likeable, sarcastic and unusual hero/bountyhunter and Molly plays an excellent teenage girl, full of angst, and both work well together, bonding into loose father and daughter unit. The best part of this movie is the excellently cast Micheal Ironside as Overdog, one of the best movie bad guys of all history. To sum up, a great early 80's movie, dated now but still looks good after all this time. Take a look and see what we were watching in the 80's.

This is underrated...
Review date: 2006-03-22 Rating: 8 out of 10

I'm really surprised at the comments posted here. I can remember catching the tail end of this movie on my father's casually recorded golf tapes and being rooted to the spot, pestering my dad repeatedly, 'What's this, what's this?!' Overdog is undoubtedly one of the sci-fi/fantasy genre's great villains, and the unlikely pairing of the man and the girl (who, thankfully, never actually get romantically involved) is well handled. The machines and sets are atmospheric especially Overdog's lair. But please, don't buy it thinking that the title promises space battles cos you're in for a big disappointment. Buy it for its weirdness and its atmosphere instead. Having said which - why is this only available in Region 1?? Fave moments - 'I lied!!!' and the bit where the chemist salivates over Overdog's fascinating skin diseases. (And why the hell was it called Space Hunter??)

Not as advertised
Review date: 2005-10-26 Rating: 4 out of 10

I bought this film thinking that it was in 3-D,but it was not like films like Spy-Kids 3D where the film has to be made for the special glasses. It was just an ordinary film with bright colours. Also on the packaging it advertised that it was to be in 2.35.1 widescreen, but on the one side it is 16.9 widescreen and on the other side it is the standard 4.3. I was also expecting space battles, but there is none. All the fighting is on the planet that they landed on. Very disappointing.

One villain, two heroines, three bimbos & some trick glasses
Review date: 2005-08-05 Rating: 8 out of 10

Molly Ringwald, playing feisty red-head. The real heroine they saved for the prequel, and then never made it - shame, really. I'd sure watch it.

It's in a 'verse with gritty spaceships, which are my favourite kind, and machines that sometimes pass the Turing test, human beings ditto.

The three bimbos being, of course, exceptions.

Did I mention the 3-D space battles....?

Product Details/Specifications


Actor(s):
Andrea Marcovicci
Ernie Hudson
Peter Strauss
Michael Ironside
Molly Ringwald

Creators:
Peter Strauss (Primary Contributor)
Molly Ringwald (Primary Contributor)
André Link (Producer)
Daniel Goldberg (Writer)
David Preston (Writer)
Edith Rey (Writer)
Jean LaFleur (Writer)

Director(s):

Recording label: Columbia TriStar
Manufacturer: Columbia TriStar
EAN: 9780767868259
Binding: DVD
ISBN: 0767868250
Number of items: 1
Format: Closed-captioned, Colour, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen,
Release date: 2001-12-04
Universal product code (UPC): 043396065390
Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
Region code: 1
Running time: 90 minutes
Theatrical release date: 1983-05-20
Language: English (Original Language)
Language: Chinese (Subtitled)
Language: English (Subtitled)
Language: French (Subtitled)
Language: Korean (Subtitled)
Language: Portuguese (Subtitled)
Language: Spanish (Subtitled)
Language: French (Dubbed)

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