Assignment: Outer Space: Back in the 50s until about the 70s, cheap foreign sci-fi films somehow made their way to the US in the form of dubbed features that were released either to theaters for the drive-in or rundown theater circuit. According to the imdb, this film was released as a triple bill to theaters with First Spaceship on Venus and The Mysterians. This one is closer to the crap of First Spaceship as opposed to the watchable film of The Mysterians.

This film has a rather infamous scene in it where a spaceship crashes and stock footage of an explosion is inserted rather clumsily in that it plainly shows a car blowing up on a street. Apparently the cheesy special effects department ran out of models to explode. Of course, I wouldn't expect much from a director who has such credits as "Cannibal Apocalypse" under his belt.

By the way, I think Paul Frees was doing some of the voices but I was falling asleep (dare I say, 'spacing out') during most of the movie.

To end this otherwise dull and depressing blog post on a high note, I will give a sort of fond memoir for Alpha Video. I remember when my brother and I first found them at DVDEmpire for $3.60 and we bought a ton of them. It was as if they couldn't get any cheaper. Yet the dollar DVDs came and they have all but disappeared from store shelves. Ironically when I got this one at the dollar store, it was a "cut out" as if it was a real DVD release. They are still around and all and even have some exclusive titles, you just don't see them in the bins at FYE and such anymore. Honestly though, the only thing Alpha ever had going for them was their covers. They at least tried where others do not.

Labels: Bad Movies, Cheap DVDs, sci-fi