Prison Planet

This movie is absolutely terrible, which means if you watch it with some friends some night when you have NOTHING else to do, you might actually have a good time (which is why I gave it a 2 instead of a 1).

The inane "plot" follows some kind of freedom fighter (I think) who purposely has himself sent to the prison planet (hence the name), so he can find the spiritual leader of the resistance (I think). Along the way, he is sidetracked with stolen slave girls, a convict (go figure) warlord/slave trader, and some guy in a suit whose very presence is perpetually nonsensical.

One of my friends summed up the quality of this movie when he said "it's like a porno without the sex". Brutal. Look for the scene in the tent where the lighting actually changes from angle to angle. Or any of the dialogue. Or the hovering spaceship shots (Plan 9 From Outer Space, is that you?). Or the spaceship door that flaps in the wind. This must be the only movie where a hunted man can be found anywhere on a planet with only four bad guys and two cars to do the job (note: if you're on a planet and four guys are looking for you, don't run along the planet's only road).

If you want to save yourself the cost of a rental, show your ten year old nephew your copy of Mad Max and ask him to videotape something like it with his friends. It would probably be better. (Though not as funny.)

(1992) Badlanders/ Prison Planet SCIENCE-FICTION ACTION

Edited, co-produced, co-written and directed by Armand Gazarian, another apocalypse movie that has resistance fighter, Blaine (James Phillips) getting himself arrested on purpose and be sent to "Prison Planet" because of a belief of a myth that the once peaceful ruler of Anakin named Himshaw (Jack Wilcox) is placed there by a younger brother,Akira. And by the time, Blaine has been put into Prison Plant, he figures he has two objectives 1) the first is to find and locate Himshaw and, #2) try to find the means to survive in the desert. His first big break is when he volunteers to challenge a bulky muscular brute named Zolo (Charley Rossman) as his promoter Roverin (Leonard Kelly-Young) raised the stakes. That If Zolo is challenged and beaten, that the winner will win a bag of food and a bagful of weapons, which includes a sword and bow n' arrow. And of course, Blaine not only beats Zolo, but he ends up killing him as well. Coincidentally, he also happens to be the younger brother of the leader of the "Hellbenders" gang, his name is Broxton (Michael M. Foley) instructing his gang of marauders to find him for him. Meanwhile, Blaine stumbles onto a source who can lead him to Himshaw, who happens to be a captured woman intended to be sold for sex, as she has a specific tattoo on her hand, we find out her name is Kabilya (Deborah Thompson-Carlin) to help Blaine find a n area called Cypress.

All this is, is a low budget cheap Roger Cormon-like production without the nudity. Even the final sequence of Blaine beating the main bad guy, Broxton with a sizable rock. And yet, that wasn't enough!

Having absolutely nothing worthy, this film definately has to be the WORST 'bad' film I have ever seen. That doesn't mean I didn't have a good time, which proves exactly what an abnormal person I am!

I have read comments on bad acting or overacting many times in IMDB for other films. Guys, YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT OVERACTING IS, unless you see THIS film. Definately one of the most hillarious characters ever filmed.

So NOBODY should see this film! This is film for the sake of it. Of course the B-movie enthousiasts around the globe might wanna check it out, but be warned: this is BADlanders!

I always thought that Mel Brooks was the greatest master of intentional and calculated comedy, but boy was I wrong. I happened to catch this simply awful film on Comet, and I started laughing almost right away. From the silly elongated disco wig on the main villain to absurd sliding sheet metal doors on the "airlock", this film is one of the most unintentionally silly and funny films ever. Maybe this film once aspired to be a MAD MAX ripoff, but instead achieved a level of hilarity not seen since the days of Ed Wood and PLAN NINE FROM OUTER SPACE...

If you're looking for a good SciFi film this is certainly not it....But, if you want laughter, this film is one of the most funny films ever produced!

Prison Planet made in 1992....I watched it tonight (using a fair amount of fast forward). It was called Badlanders here in Bahrain. I thought at first it was made in the 50's about the same time as Quatermass etc.

I went on line to check its date. I was surprised to see 1992. What a load of rubbish. The technology displayed was ancient, the hovering vehicles stupid and the car a mince meat version of something out of Mad Max.

How could such a bad movie have got financed? Surely someone was checking their investment during production. This was definitely the worst film I have ever seen and that is saying something as I have been watching movies for nearly sixty years!