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Space Raiders

  • 1983
  • PG
  • 1h 24m
IMDb RATING
4.5/10
1.8K
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Thom Christopher, Vince Edwards, David Mendenhall, and Patsy Pease in Space Raiders (1983)
A futuristic, sensitive tale of adventure and confrontation when a 10 year old boy is accidentally kidnapped by a spaceship filled with a motley crew of space pirates.
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A futuristic, sensitive tale of adventure and confrontation when a 10 year old boy is accidentally kidnapped by a spaceship filled with a motley crew of space pirates.A futuristic, sensitive tale of adventure and confrontation when a 10 year old boy is accidentally kidnapped by a spaceship filled with a motley crew of space pirates.A futuristic, sensitive tale of adventure and confrontation when a 10 year old boy is accidentally kidnapped by a spaceship filled with a motley crew of space pirates.

  • Director
    • Howard R. Cohen
  • Writer
    • Howard R. Cohen
  • Stars
    • Vince Edwards
    • David Mendenhall
    • Patsy Pease
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  • IMDb RATING
    4.5/10
    1.8K
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    • Director
      • Howard R. Cohen
    • Writer
      • Howard R. Cohen
    • Stars
      • Vince Edwards
      • David Mendenhall
      • Patsy Pease
    • 40User reviews
    • 24Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 nomination total

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    Vince Edwards
    Vince Edwards
    • Hawk
    David Mendenhall
    David Mendenhall
    • Peter
    Patsy Pease
    Patsy Pease
    • Amanda
    Thom Christopher
    Thom Christopher
    • Flightplan
    Luca Bercovici
    Luca Bercovici
    • Ace
    Drew Snyder
    Drew Snyder
    • Aldebarian
    Ray Stewart
    Ray Stewart
    • Zariatin
    George Dickerson
    • Tracton
    Michael Miller
    • Lou
    Virginia Kiser
    Virginia Kiser
    • Janeris
    Don Washburn
    • Jessup
    William Boyett
    William Boyett
    • Taggert
    Howard Dayton
    • Elmer
    Dick Miller
    Dick Miller
    • Crazy Mel
    Elizabeth Charlton
    • Cookie
    Claude Johnson
    Claude Johnson
    • Technician
    Suzan Hollis
    • Space Hooker
    Laura Coles
    • Singer
    • Director
      • Howard R. Cohen
    • Writer
      • Howard R. Cohen
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    ashman421

    I love space pirates

    This is the ultimate second-hand movie. Music, props, special effects and sets from Corman's world of movies are assembled to create this coming of age tale. There are a few moments in the film that are kinda cool, though. The escape scene in the beginning of the movie is heightened by a crew member tossing a beer to the captian while he fights off attacking space ships. There were also other cinematic moments in the film that were ALMOST good but are not executed as well as they could. I guess you have to hire leftover actors when making a leftover movie. It is interesting that James Horner did the music to this movie, (actually Battle Beyond the Stars), because he is now a top film composer in Hollywood. Its good to know someone came out of this film alive.
    amesmonde

    Some fun to be had.

    A mercenary and his crew try to stop a robot force and return a stowaway boy to his home planet.

    Directed by Howard R. Cohen, Roger Corman's production shamelessly reuses sets from his other small budget productions, also special effects and the music from Battle Beyond the Stars, and music cues from Humanoids from the Deep. Nevertheless, to Cohens credit he brings the patch work of elements together throwing in some brief stop-motion animation; and cheap alien masks.

    Thom Christopher as Flightplan a psychic alien is notable alongside likeable young David Mendenhall as Peter. Memorable is Drew Snyder as Aldebarian. It rips off Star Wars and Return of the Jedi at every opportunity. But thankfully it's brisk pace, solid acting with plenty of heart makes up for Space Raiders short comings.

    Overall, it's a cheap and cheerful space adventure, and even with the recycled ingredients that may take you out of the moment it flows surprisingly well.
    6FilmStalker

    I only paid $0.78 for this flick.

    Somewhere out in space millions of robots are making coffee. This obsession with making coffee has left a spaceship unsupervised, which is where the 'Space Raiders' come in. Led by Hawk, a company vet who now turns to alcohol, the raiders steal a spaceship. Hopping along this spaceship is a little kid and a tiny insect. Will this bug infect other planets with disease? We don't know. Our focus is on the kid and the promise Hawk has made to him. Can Hawk bring the kid home? Saying nay are the robots who have made a death star type spaceship because, apparently, they have had too much coffee and are wired! Watch the excitement, live for the danger and by every means blasts them rocks!!!!
    5trickyascupart

    Not Great But Not Rubbish

    Okay, picture it: a ten year old boy has nothing better to do but to mope around the house. He turns on the TV and BOOM! It's a Star Wars rip-off! HOORAY! I was that ten year old kid and I so loved Star Wars (and still do) that anything with space battles, robots and smart-arse heroes was immediately watched with great suspension of disbelief. I really thought that Space Raiders was, along with Battlestar Galactica, the mutt's nuts, as it were, of Star Wars-type films. It was duly taped on a later broadcast and said tape did wear out because said kid watched it so much. I still watched it while I was a secondary school, and I'd even get up at some hideously early hour so I could watch it before going to school. After the tape went the way of the dodo I fortunately found a second-hand copy in a cash converters store and was able to keep watching it, though more out of habit that for a fix of space hokum. It will never earn the mantle of greatest sci-fi flick ever as that honour will go to the original Star Wars, but it's still watchable if you are a member of the kid-young-teen bracket. It's fun, it doesn't get too heavy and bogged down in volumes of exposition and it's got some very good ideas. The problem is that the budget didn't do justice to those ideas. The effects are very cheap, but I have seen worse. The robots were pretty well done, even if it is obvious that they're men in plastic suits. The acting isn't brilliant, but then this is an escapist b-movie, not Shakespeare, and to be honest, the level of acting is about right for the film - the actors are all pretty competent in their own way but they won't be winning any awards. Space Raiders - not great, but not rubbish either.
    chanfan86

    for a rip off of battle beyond the stars this movie is not that bad

    Yet another rip off of StarWars in the early 80's, but who cares. The movie has space battles,cool pirates, some good acting,a great score by james horner which has been used countless times but still effective, and some comic moments(intentional and some not). Dont start watching this movie thinking its going to be a big budget, sci-fi flick, because its not. just sit down and have fun for an hour and a half. Do not take the movie seriously.

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    • Trivia
      A majority of the sets in this movie had been used in previous films made by New World Pictures.
    • Goofs
      During the first space fight, Hawk says that "there are only two of them, and six of us". However, we get to see at least ten company fighters get blown up during the course of the battle.
    • Quotes

      Hawk: Peter, listen to me. Things are always happening that we don't expect. You can think of them as an ordeal, or you can think of them as a great adventure. It's the adventurers who make it.

    • Connections
      Edited from Les mercenaires de l'espace (1980)
    • Soundtracks
      Music from 'Battle Beyond the Stars'
      (uncredited)

      (Les mercenaires de l'espace (1980))

      Music by James Horner

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    • Release date
      • July 1983 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Space Raiders - Weltraumpiraten
    • Filming locations
      • Venice, Los Angeles, California, USA(studio interiors)
    • Production company
      • Millenium
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 24m(84 min)
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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