Warp Speed

Another low budget sci-fi oddity from the writer/director team of Allan Sandler and Robert Emenegger. This one's an outer space drama set on board a spaceship with no aliens for a change. They couldn't afford a paycheque for Cameron Mitchell so we get his daughter Camille starring instead.

Mitchell features in a time-padding wraparound story as a psychic investigating the mysterious disappearance of a crew onboard a space ship drifting through the universe. The story plays out in flashback as we learn of the terrible fate that befell those involved. The sets and costumes are as cheap and cheerful as you'd expect, and the ever-hammy Adam West plays the ship's captain.

There's actually a decent story here waiting to be told, so it's just a shame the execution is spoilt by endless padding and long-winded dialogue scenes that drag the pacing down. I love the idea of the high stakes poker game so it's just a shame Sandler couldn't have made more of it. Emenegger merely produces and contributes the music to this one. As with CAPTIVE, a few brief gory scenes are thrown in to shock viewers.

It possible from just the titles and music at the beginning to realise how bad this film is going to be. The plot was a great idea but the execution of it was terrible, the producer and director let the writers down very badly and the actors weren't up to much either.

The acting was very wooden, except for Batman, and the sets were very cheaply made, the background spaceship engine noise went on all the way through the film and was very irritating and too loud. The spaceship miniature must have cost $10 at the most with the special effects taking up another $10 dollars in cost.

Worth watching to see how badly made a film can actually be but it is entertaining it's so bad.

Having watched about 15 minutes of this rubbish, I have difficulty understanding how anyone could have written or directed it, let alone agreed to act in it.

The characters are as unlikely a bunch of astronauts as you're ever likely to see, one-dimensional and drawn straight out of some appalling soap opera. The acting is wooden and the script banal, to say the least. The story could have been set anywhere - on a ship, in some wild west town, on an aeroplane, you name it. It has nothing really to do with space .

Utter tripe on every level.

I remember watching this on VHS one weekend around the mid to late 80's and thought it was rubbish; but, after 20 years I still remember the film, not for how rubbish it was but because of the sense of overwhelming menace that it exuded. The plot wasn't the best, the acting was full of more ham than your local butcher's shop and the effects.....well I think I could do better with a couple of broken hairdryers and a roll of sellotape! What really sticks is the mood and general eeriness of the film and the awfully executed but effectively thought out end. It's incredible that this film should have become of my own folklore but it worked in a dreadful, kind of way.

Cardboard scenery, bad acting, atrocious script. Don't be misled by the fact that Adam West is in the cast. His performance leaves a lot to be desired. Only to be watched if you're having a Worst Film In The World party!