Where do I begin. I saw this film, in a theater, when I was 7 years old. It was fresh on the heels of a number of Star Wars rip-offs (i.e. 'Battle Beyond The Stars', etc.) This one, however was different. I hated it when I was a child, but I have grown to love it, in a screwed up Ed Wood kind-of-way. It is a terrible film, but it's so terrible, that it is legendary. Sailboats in space. Villains that make Power Rangers look like Academy Award material. Glowing acorns. Planets with rocket boosters on them. Plot holes you could ride an elephant through. Vic Morrow? Sonny Chiba? You could write a doctoral thesis about what's wrong with this movie, but why? Perhaps the most endearing quality of this film, aside from the raging fires in the vacuum of space, is the fact that a game company bought the rights to use some of the dogfight sequences in a very early laser disc arcade game, which I played at a waterslide park in Utah 1982. Believe it or not, this movie was a TV show in Japan, although it did not last long. Seriously, if you love really bad movies, this is the arc of the covenant.
Review of Message from Space
