I cannot, in good conscience, call this a horrifyingly gut-wrenchingly bad movie. There are, for certain, pretty mountains and color in this film. The Psychlos, like we expect any race who develops light years away from us, drink some really cool-looking mixed drinks, copulate like humans (it is assumed, as oral sex apparently had its values per Terl's "assistant"), live in structures like humans, but apparently can't seem to make an association between the two. Ordinarily, this would be a gap in logic to ruin a movie, but in this case, an already ruined movie was saved by some really stupid idea to make it by far the most mentally handicapped movie since "The Twonky"- this no longer makes the movie bad, but makes it a camp phenomenon. In fifty years, teenagers will still be going to see this film in the theater while dropping acid and crossdressing, throwing glow sticks and dressing up as Terl. In short, this movie, reminding us all of the original Evil Dead, is so horribly bad that it's actually good. I am hoping for an "Army of Darkness" type sequel where Terl travels back in time to find himself the victim of sexual assault while in jail (for soliciting crack from an undercover officer), and the tear-jerking tale of how he got his Psychlo-hood back by a intense physical regimen of working out a la "Rocky" and his seduction of a prison guard. The final chapter of this saga will actually be quite smashing in that Terl finds out his father was a wife-beater while in counseling with the prison psychologist.
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I cannot, in good conscience, call this a horrifyingly gut-wrenchingly bad movie. There are, for certain, pretty mountains and color in this film. The Psychlos, like we expect any race who develops light years away from us, drink some really cool-looking mixed drinks, copulate like humans (it is assumed, as oral sex apparently had its values per Terl's "assistant"), live in structures like humans, but apparently can't seem to make an association between the two. Ordinarily, this would be a gap in logic to ruin a movie, but in this case, an already ruined movie was saved by some really stupid idea to make it by far the most mentally handicapped movie since "The Twonky"- this no longer makes the movie bad, but makes it a camp phenomenon. In fifty years, teenagers will still be going to see this film in the theater while dropping acid and crossdressing, throwing glow sticks and dressing up as Terl. In short, this movie, reminding us all of the original Evil Dead, is so horribly bad that it's actually good. I am hoping for an "Army of Darkness" type sequel where Terl travels back in time to find himself the victim of sexual assault while in jail (for soliciting crack from an undercover officer), and the tear-jerking tale of how he got his Psychlo-hood back by a intense physical regimen of working out a la "Rocky" and his seduction of a prison guard. The final chapter of this saga will actually be quite smashing in that Terl finds out his father was a wife-beater while in counseling with the prison psychologist.