#lasterblast

KO'S FATHER:

Runaway Nightmare (1982)

My brain hurts gaaahhhhhhhh.

Tubi just added this gem of a fart in a bottle. 

I remember a few years ago the local boys at Laser Blast played this in Toronto and got that sweet hand draw poster for it. Which was later used on the Videonomicon rerelease.  But I missed that screening but I knew what it was.. but I still wasn’t ready when years later I finally watched it.

Directed and edited in dream logic. Which random over dubs to explain a plot that may or may not have been their in the first place. All skills used to tell a simple story of two dorky guys working as simple worm and snail farmers in the dessert get held hostage by an all girl gang who and setting up in the area  to do a big deal and shakedown with mobsters.  But the girls all talk in nonsensical sentences as if the dorky guys were drugged and hallucinated this. One of them may be a vampire but that’s totally not important.  Shots of other actors seem be be in the shadows cause they were obviously filmed later and edited in. Making the intense and confusion reactions of the other actors all seem surreal. But the surreal nature is not a mistake it happens to often to be just bad film making. Its a stressful train ride into a weird grasp of reality as very little happens except to see fear through the eyes of one of the two main men. Making the gang of women all seem alien or insane. Not surprising the movie is written and directed and edited by that same man Mike Cartel. Seems like that kind of indi passion project film maker that loves 70s exploitation but also deep down wishes he was Woody Allen as he cries a little when he masturbates. 

So bizarre. Many gorgeous girls in this gang / cult, who probably could have had good acting careers but many a casting agent would have been scared away if they found this avante garde masterpiece of confusion and self loathing. One or two of the girls got some more roles, but not many. They are an interest collection of half written characters I would have been interested in seeing them in something else. But this was pretty interesting in its own damn weird way.

 See it just to believe it in a way like Science Craze, yet I feel Science Craze knew more how ridiculous it was then this film. I feel Mike Cartel thought this was high art... and I’m not saying it isn’t. I’m just saying “Wow dude, what is going on and why you all so fucking weird?” Twists and turns and double crossses in the end but wait till after the credits for the post credits scene , maybe have a drink before that scene though just so you can take it in a lubed brain. 

For local friends I have to say Cartel looks and sounds a lot like a guy that used to work as Suspect the old horror themed video store in Toronto, you guys know the guy I mean without me saying it. Funny to me. 

Basically imagine a crime thriller but done by a high school play beatnik that would make a short play by smashing a cell phone on stage while wearing a beret and shout “HISTORY!” then say le fin. 

Available on Blu Ray from Vinegar Syndrome I believe. 

Lasterblast will be released on Blu-ray on October 10 via Full Moon Features. The 1987 sci-fi/horror B-movie has been remastered in high definition from the original 35mm answer print.

Laserblast is directed by Michael Rae and produced by Charles Band (Puppet Master franchise). Roddy McDowall, Keenan Wynn, Kim Milford, Cheryl Smith, Dennis Burkley, Ron Masak, Mike Bobenko, Eddie Deezen, Barry Cutler, and Gianni Russo star.

Special features are listed below.

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