2020 Texas Gladiators

Ah, the masterpiece* known as 2020 Texas Gladiators (a.k.a. 'Anno 2020 - I gladiatori del futuro' in the original Italian)...

Neither of those guys, nor that cool cannon/blunderbuss gun thingy appear in the film, not surprisingly. This is just another example of cool, yet misleading, poster art of the time. :) There is actually nothing in the movie to make you think this was in the future. It looked pretty much like a messed up 1984.

The description is fairly accurate, but the story is so bogged down with "meh" that it's not too clear. *shrug* This is also typical of B-movies, of course. Actually, B is pretty generous. (think C or Z)

They spelled explosive as exsplosive throughtout the fuel refinery scenes. Those pics will show up in my dumberer blog eventually. ;)

As is the case with a lot of old OOP movies, you can see the whole thing at YouTube! (can, but don't have to, of course...)

*No.

Not Quite Human

The Not Quite Human trilogy was a HUGE favorite of mine—and my brother's—growing up, but especially the first one from 1987:

Great cast! Jay Underwood was very likeable and played the part so well. Alan Thicke was allowed to play his role as father with a certain levelheadedness, rather than the 'idiot' father of so many movies, so that was nice. And speaking of nice, Robyn Lively...wow! Definitely had a big crush on her! Hesseman and Balogna were a fun duo you had no problem seeing beaten. (business-wise, I mean)

Not sure when this tape was released (I'm guessing early to mid 90s), as they never put any dates anywhere. :p I have a bunch of undated Disney tapes. Why would they do that?

The whole movie is on YouTube! :) Here's the first part:

Z.P.G.

Ah yes, Z.P.G. I picked it up on a whim at a video store liquidation. I'm glad I did. It's a little lot slow at times, but pretty interesting overall. And this is a case where the low quality of the print seems to help it be more mysterious. 

Love them 'tells you nothing' covers! ;) 

Decent dystopian story, typical of the 70s. 

Here's the trailer:

 Makes me want to watch it again!