Saturday, April 5, 2014

Cyberzone (1995)

aka Droid Gunner, aka Phoenix 2

How bad is it? It's just barely science fiction and almost porn.
Should you see it? Probably not.

This is the only photo of this film I could find without nudity!
In the 1960's, directors were switching from nudies to horror. In the 1990's, Fred Olen Ray made the switch the other direction. This is probably the last film he made that wasn't just soft core titillation, directed to fill time late at night on new cable and satellite television stations. That said, there's no doubt where he was headed when he made this film, about recovering stolen robot hookers. Ray knew that science fiction was hard to do on a budget, so this is very tongue-in-cheek and it kinda works. Some of the amusement for me in all Ray films are the styles seen - in this film, you not only see bad hair and clothing choices, but you see that plastic surgeons had some odd ideas about what breasts should look like.

[see also the next review]

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