B-Movie review: Space Hunter: Adventures in the Frobidden Zone (1983)

This is actually a very good movie. You can tell it from the beginning when the cheesy title attacks you, I mean it really does attack you. That's a high score on the cheesometer. The movie start with a nice little explosion on a Spaceship that forces three beautiful babes to flee on an escape pod. They end up crashing on a desert planet where the natives soon naturally are attracted to the site (hehehe). Our hero lives in a pile of junk in space. His name is Wolf and he is known for never paying his parking tickets, his rent, or his ex- wife. Now that's a REAL HERO for you. He isn't alone, his mechanic is a sexy android (that he bones of course, it's all implied) named Chalmers (if I ever bought a sexy android, I'd do her too). Unfortunately she dies early in the movie. Nooo, she was the best character!! And holy facemelting Jesus, do you really have to melt her skin just because you decomission her, Wolf?

So Wolf is trying to find the babes from the escape pod, and they have been taken to the Forbidden Zone, a part of the planet terrorized by a plague. Wolf teams up with a scavenging teenage girl played by Molly Ringwald! Thar'd make this one of her first movies! She's actually quite good in this, although she nag all the time, but that's just because SHE'S A WOMAN. They also team up with the space cop Washington, who also is on the same mission. They face of against Fat Mutants, that are so obviously dudes in fat suits, that it's totally obvious. And they encounter water amazons (yay!!). The bad guys called the Overdog and the Chemist are creepy enough, but they don't have a villain laugh (damn). All in all, it's a quite fun ride. A very under appreciated movie. If you want some quality 80's cheese, give it a try. It feels a little bit like a mixture of Star Wars and Mad Max, and that can never be wrong. It's almost sad they never made any sequels.