Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity (1987)

Sadly Over-hyped

Great Film overall

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

Um, what's a "fantazoid monster"? There sure weren't any of those in the film I watched. What I did see were lots of low budget effects and sets, but the camera tended to avoid these and instead linger on our two heroines as they paraded around in lingerie and leather bikinis. Which makes the film a cheap exploitation piece, but we all knew that from the title, didn't we? This film is credited as a remake of the '30s classic THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME, but it changes the setting from an island to a futuristic planet. It's total rubbish but that's not to say it isn't worth watching. It does pass the time nicely and it's a good title to have in your collection. The acting is non-existent, although the girls don't stumble too much with their lines and there is a great role from Scribner as Zed, the psycho hunter.I really liked this guy and found myself rooting for him. Gelled hair, black clothes, hairy chest, heck, even a medallion, he was the coolest bad guy (terribly clichéd too, but you come to expect that with films like these). The sets of this film are less than impressive. 95% of the backgrounds are obvious drawings, and I haven't seen recycling of the same sets over and over again since I watched PLAU DEAD (where they had the same street as two different locations, the difference? Parked cars in one, no parked cars in the other).The special effects range from good to atrocious. The monsters look good, as do the robots, but the laser blasts are that bad computer effect which appears in hundreds of '80s sci-fi films such as these. Even DR WHO used it copiously. As expected the girls find various ways of taking their tops off, but don't expect this to be some soft-core porn epic, there's very little nudity. What there is, is lots of action to keep you watching. A real cheap and cheerful piece of trash. I expected it to be from Troma but not this time, however the spirit of cheap exploitation that we all know and love is definitely there.

This movie is a ripoff of "The Most Dangerous Game", obviously. Set in space because that's what you did in the 1980's when space movies were still kind of cool. the movie contains a lot of Sci-Fi dialog written by people who probably didn't know what the words meant, but they saw them in Star Wars or Star Trek or something.A couple of scantily clad women escape from a slave ship only to land on the planet owned by crazy hunter guy, joining a wimpy guy and his sister. They quickly discover their host is into hunting people because animals now bore him. Much of the dialog of the 1933 version is recycled, badly.After dispatching wimpy guy, he decides to hunt the three women as a group, including the sister who is remarkably calm after being raped AND seeing her brother dismembered.This film might have actually been good with better writing, better acting and better special effects...

*Spoiler/plot- 1987, Escaped space slave girls are on the run. They crash land on another mystery planet. The slave girls are rescued & helped by a local native, named Zed. The girls see that people mysteriously disappear from Zed's home The girls want to find out why. Zed turns his guests loose in his jungle preserve to hunt them. Armed with primitive bladed hand weapons, these slaves battle across the jungle area. They are trying to find a hidden arms cache to save themselves. Zed finds, catches and kills our space slave girls. *Special Stars- Elizabeth Cayton as the lead role. Don Scribner plays the baddie, Zed. *Theme- Be careful of who you accept rooms from in space. *Based on- 'The Most Dangerous Game'. *Trivia/location/goofs- See why this film was condemned for it's content in many government circles. *Emotion- Slave girls being chased...yawn. Not this again...Depressing film ending all around.

This is by all means one of my entire B favorites. A decent futuristic re-working of "The Most Dangerous Game", well photographed with some nice sets, the one and another unintentional laugh, and - main asset - three very attractive babes to look at. Special effects are OK for the money spent, acting is not too bad compared to the average Band/Corman/DeCoteau/Ray-quickie standard either, this is still fun if you're watching it for the twentieth time.