Cave Women on Mars

Interestingly I found this good in a bad way. Mars as we all know is not habitable. In 1950's we all wanted a neighbor. So we invented humans and beasts.

The year is 1987: mankind has conquered space, launching the first manned mission to Mars. On reaching the red planet, the two man crew-Captain Jackson (Josh Craig) and Lieutenant Elliot (Daniel Sjerven)-encounter two tribes of warrior women, neither of which hold men in very high regard.

Writer/director Christopher R. Mihm's Cave Women On Mars is a low-budget homage to z-grade sci-fi trash of the 1950s, and in that it largely succeeds, meaning that it too is hard to sit through in its entirety. Mihm is clearly a man who knows his stuff, effectively replicating the mundanity of many a '50s clunker, but quite why anyone would choose to painstakingly ape some of the worst films that genre and era had to offer doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me: the real McCoy is bad enough, let alone a modern day mimic.

4/10-I would have liked to have seen more tongue-in-cheek humour (but a little less of the Shatnerisms).

Mihm's films are of surprisingly high quality and the love and heart put into their crafting are evident. The reviewer who gave it one star missed the point and content of this film by such a vastly wide margin I think he himself has never read the illustrious authors he name-dropped or love sci/fi that much if he can't embrace it's shaky beginnings in cinema.

This is not a spoof, a satire, bash or a serious modern science fiction film dealing with complex metaphysical matters. This is a loving homage to classic science fiction from the cheesy golden era (the 50's), rich with subtle references as wide ranging as Star Trek and Lovecraft. Made by a family man, using his family for key roles, this is a great film for your family to enjoy together.

It does make me want to convert my basement into a movie studio, too. I have some old cell phones lying around I could use as cameras. Raid my parents garage for props.

The acting and dialog are painful and the plot is... a plot, I guess.

I tend to enjoy the old crappy movies but I couldn't watch this for long so maybe it gets better

Perhaps the worst movie ever made. not just sci-fi, but any genre. not even bad-funny, just totally bland cardboard. makes Plan 9 look epic!