Flesh Gordon Michael Benveniste, Howard Ziehm. 1974

Cave Bronson Caves, 3200 Canyon Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90068, USA See in map

Bonus: also in this location

Flesh Gordon (1974) 90 Minutes, Unrated

To kick off this Cult Series (want to join my cult?) I decided to start with Flesh Gordon.

I watched this movie many, many times and always enjoyed it but never thought of it as a work of cinema or anything that could be written about - but now I get to - first of all re-watch this motion picture that I haven’t seen since the early 90’s - and 2nd of all - see it as a satire rather than an adult film.

First of all - according to IMDB a lot of the shots are directly from the Flash Gordon serial comic.  I wouldn’t know - but I know I like this movie.  I’m team Flesh!

Flesh Gordon is a million times better than 2001, A Space Odyssey, which I find to be one of the most boring things I’ve ever watched.  Flesh is actually hilarious and has a story where plot points happen and, yes, there is a sex ray and when you get hit with it everyone goes crazy with sex madness.

Flesh and his friends have to try to stop Emperor Wang - a maniacal botanist whose organ was devoured by a crazed penis flytrap - from carrying out his evil plans.

I mean really - this movie has everything, penisauruses, penisauri (sp?) - claymation!  Power Pasties, super gay Robin Hood character, the Martian from that Twilight Zone episode (John Hoyt), and stupidly funny dialog and puns to go with the potty humor and 70′s eau naturelle nudity, and so much more.  To top it off, the movie ends with a battle between a giant clay monster that really could have been the end of Clash of the Titans if that monster had a sense of humor.  I mean, when they wake the beast up he says ‘Oh boy I just love murder’.