Platypuschow To my surprise this is actually a Fullmoon movie, the company well known only for cheesy horror films. Apparently they do sci-fi even worse.Laserblast presently sits with a 2.6 rating on IMDB, which is astoundingly low. I didn't think for a second it would be that bad, it actually is.It tells the story of a young man who finds a laser cannon in the desert, after wielding it and the necklace that came with it he is periodically transformed into a creature hellbent on destruction.Looking at the cover you'd think the "Creature" was Gary Busey, in the film it's more an early Romero zombie.The special effects are embarassing even for the time, the plot is riddled with holes and the whole thing comes off amateurish. One of the worst films every made? No. Deserving of 2.6? Absolutely.The Good:Erm.....The Bad:Looks hideousJust can't take it seriouslyThings I Learnt From This Movie:Aliens are just giant turtles without shells who wear shiney gloves

O2D The really bad thing about this movie is the amount of time wasting filler.More than half of this is just people walking or driving with no dialogue or action. The set up is great.A weird looking alien in a Star Trek uniform is stumbling through the desert with a giant laser gun.A space ships flies in and two E.T. style aliens get out with a very small gun.They turn the guy into dust and leave.But the guy's giant laser gun and weird necklace survive somehow.Then they spend way too much time trying to get us to feel sympathy for the main character.He's a rich kid with a hot girlfriend but his mommy doesn't have time for him.The cops hassle him and the other kids make fun of him so he goes to the desert and finds the laser gun and starts blowing up stuff.Then we see that the aliens can see he found the gun and they know they have to come back and stop him.But it's not even the aliens that were there, it was their superior.So they left cameras there and left that laser and only their superior can watch the cameras?It doesn't make any sense and they replay the entire scene of the kid finding gun.This could have been a great short but it's a not so great full length.

Aaron1375 This is a film that was featured on the cult show, Mystery Science Theater 3000. Oftentimes, being on this show is the first time I will have ever seen a film, but not in this case. No, I saw this one as a child numerous times as it used to come on one of those obscure channels that would show old science fiction films like this and Godzilla. I watched this one and enjoyed it as a kid, because it has a laser in it! It also had aliens and it was very short. Well, one really didn't get the advantage of the brevity as they stretched this thing out over a two hour span. A film, that was obviously inspired by Star Wars to the extent it even feels the need to blast its creator in the form of a sign being blown away. Not all bad, but it is kind of pointless in the grand scheme of things as you have characters that are obviously just there to pad the film, you have an actor of some note playing a bit part to lend a bit of credibility and you have an incredibly irritating Eddie Deezen character. So this film most certainly did deserve some riffing, but you have to admit, the title does say it all! The story has an alien wandering the desert where he is gunned down by two aliens who are stop motion. They do not look overall great, but their eyes move rather well. Well these two fly off leaving the alien's laser in the desert. We then meet Billy whose mom likes going on vacation, the local law harasses him and two dweebs try to show him up. He soon finds the laser and the means to operate it, but using it seems to have adverse side effects on our 'hero'. He soon goes to a birthday party with his girlfriend where the girl whose birthday it is has a sad speech about how she only has friends because of her pool. What does this have to do with anything? Well, not a whole lot in the long run. Just padding. Well, Billy is soon getting revenge on those that have wronged him and he may or may not be unstoppable and the aliens have to do a u-turn in space, because they didn't get the laser the last time.This is one of my favorite MST3K episodes from a riffing standpoint. This film is bad, but not so bad that it is unbearable to watch. It is a fun little film for the most part so it makes it fun listening to them make fun of it. This was the last episode of the show on Comedy Central though, so none of the bumps had anything to do with the film which is a bit sad. I liked the bumps, but I would have loved to have seen one skit done using it as the inspiration, such as having the aliens from the movie appear or something. Still, the movie itself was great and the jokes fast and furious! So in the end a bad film, but not one that you cannot watch. The film was produced by Charles Band and that explains a lot. For those who do not know, he did the Full Moon Studio films and lets face it, all of those films were brief and a lot of them were pointless. Granted, some of them were pretty good too and when they are bad, they usually still are fun to watch. This one is no exception, though this one is not under the Full Moon banner yet. Just a movie where they saw a movie and then thought, let's have a kid find a laser and blast stuff! What will we call it? Laserblast! Sounds good to me!

Boba_Fett1138 It's not like anything stands out as truly bad in this movie, it's more so that there is simply absolutely nothing happening in it at all.I can forgive a movie for being bad sometimes, as long as it's entertaining but I can't forgive a movie for being boring and offering me absolutely nothing to enjoy about it.Blame it all on the writing of course. This movie still had the potential in it to be a fun one but the writers obviously had no idea what to with its premise. As a matter of fact, they had a hard time coming up with anything at all, since the movie for most part is just dragging on and filled with some sequences, that in the long run, serve absolutely no purpose for the movie at all.It's really not the worst movie with any of its effects or acting. I mean, it even has Roddy McDowall in it, even though the movie itself can't even spell his name right. The effects are even somewhat good and the movie even had a bit of money to spend it on some decent action.Really not one of the worst movies I have ever seen but it surely is one of the more redundant ones.3/10 http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/