A Look at the Insanely bad Laserblast (1978)

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[@djb6313]

I saw this in the theater as a child and loved it! As a kid it’s easy to overlook the bad acting, cheesy special effects and plot holes so to me at that age it was a fun movie. I’ve since watched it as an adult and it defines didn’t live up to my experience watching it as a child. Good fun at the time and glad I saw it but I’m glad my movie tastes have evolved. 🙂

[@mikesilva3868]

Fun movie to watch uncut the mst3k episode was hiliarous great riffing and good host segments too I laughed so hard at the riffing 😊

[@winslow-eh5kv]

The SPECIAL EFFECTS in this movie are not poor, especially for a more modestly budgeted film of it's vintage. And there are a few good actors in it, like namely Roddy Mcdowall and Keenan Wynn.

[@ablosch2452]

Similar to my experience with this movie.

[@insanelook]

Never heard of that movie, but I guarantee you that as a 10 years old in 78' I'd have loved it. I am 53 now btw.

[@MegaDeepthought42]

Loved it on “ Sat action theater” in early 80s on TV as a child.

[@alancarnell2747]

I actually saw it in the theater. Famous Monsters called it the new Star Wars. It was OK for an 11 year old me but no Star Wars.

[@johnashley327]

I was 12 and this is my first time hearing about it.

[@alancarnell2747]

@@johnashley327 well someone didn't read Famous Monsters and it shows.

[@johnashley327]

I collected Famous Monsters. What issue was this in.

[@justafanofnerdculture7602]

I actually have a very, very soft spot for this movie. When I was a lil' kid growin' up in Oakland, Ca in the early 80s, I remember seeing Laserblast twice. It was shown both times during a Saturday afternoon horror/Sci Fi movie show called Monstrous Theater on KBHK channel 44. I loved it then and I still love it now.

[@frankresendez1928]

Wow! That’s exactly where i saw it too

[@justafanofnerdculture7602]

@@frankresendez1928 That's awesome, Sir! You're alright with me, Frank! 🤜

[@Franco1395]

Yep, Bay Area 80s kid here. This is all bringing back fond memories. I had a sci-fi magazine with a Laserblast article/promo.

[@broseph1696]

Same here grew up in San Jose and remember watching this randomly on a Saturday afternoon. Loved it!

[@creepyskulldini581]

I don't think movies that are "forgettable" get comic book adoptions and action figures made of them forty years later.

[@Albendova666]

I was obsessed with this movie as a child and pestered my parents to take me to our drive-in when it hit town. My dad started the car and we left halfway through.

[@WhiteScarsEmo]

LMAO!

[@JayStein777]

My Dad was visibly upset during the movie at the drive in. He stayed because of me. Loved the aliens. Fond memories.

[@WhiteScarsEmo]

@@JayStein777 I sympathize. Family Movie Night, I made the mistake of renting “Pink Floyd’s The Wall”. (I think I was... twelve!) The entire time, my (fairly conservative) parents gave me looks that would fry glass. 25 years later, I am still reminded of it.

[@cameronalexander359]

Lol

[@thunderbird0024]

I made a copy of the weapon. I thought it was cool design.

[@ZBot47]

Why so negative, Jonathan? Did Laserblast steal your girlfriend? Fun movie. 3 1/2 stars.

[@jaybsamson]

My friend worked at the Drive-in when Laserblast was out - I got in free all summer - saw this probably 30 times. A little weed, sometimes a cute classmate next to me. Laseblast played as double-feature with Corvette Summer. What good times!

[@chewey3rd]

You sir, are my idol.

[@chuckcookus]

Laserblast played as double-feature with Corvette Summer The world's only Kim Milford film festival.

[@mikemoscato2995]

Corvette summer with mark hamell was a decent movie 🎥 👌

[@creepyskulldini581]

I don't think movies that are "forgettable" get comic book adoptions and action figures made of them forty years later.

[@tonyeckman4822]

Awesome! Laserblast AND Corvette Summer double feature. Too amazing.

[@erikmartin4996]

Got dropped off to see it with my best friend. We played Laserblast at school recess. We made weapons to slide over our arms at home. It was such an incredibly awful movie but when your 7 you don’t know it

[@RightURKen7]

Why the aliens left the weapon and amulet is not an "unanswered question" You show the clip that answers it at 7:08 A plane flies over and they fear they've been spotted so they get out of there immediately with no time to grab the amulet and weapon.

[@ScreamingScallop]

But their superior officer makes them turn around _during their return trip in space_ to go back and get them. Which they do. In the middle of that phony "city" set in broad daylight while our idiot earthling is in the middle of a rampage.

[@glenobrien894]

Thanks Did not remember that

[@Pynaegan]

My mom's argument for something like this is always "It's in the script."

[@creepyskulldini581]

I don't think movies that are "forgettable" get comic book adoptions and action figures made of them forty years later.

[@jerrypeacock2234]

Some people just don't know how to have a good time watching a really bad movie.

[@Aah_noe]

This! 👏👏👏👏👏

[@jamesaccount612]

So true. I LOVE really bad movies.

[@glenobrien894]

Yeah it's a Lost Art Jerry lol

[@Nestalgba92023]

Especially having Lockdowns!

[@ravenglennhomestead]

I used to watch lots of D Movies on Late Late Movie Shows...one in particular I watched in the late 70s at my Grandparent's home in Dayton, Nevada...but I'm not recalling the name of the Host...some were quite good and some were difficult to watch they were so bad...lol...but something to do after night shift...lol...

[@lordybomb]

The Last Jedi is still worse...

[@TheRadioAteMyTV]

TRUTH SPEAKER!

[@Axess-sv8nq]

Absolutely 100%!!

[@SonofTiamat]

Unironically this

[@Lumibear.]

And again everyone under 10 loved it at the time.

[@WhiteScarsEmo]

I remember seeing this on TV. "Million Dollar Movie", usually played after the nightly talk shows and there was two hours of nothing but syndicated shows from the 60s and 70s ("In Color!") and movies like these! Good times! :-)

[@dennissmith5807]

Laserbast is awesome. I saw it originally back in the day.

[@Foxonian]

Of course, if it wasn't for the MST3K treatment of this film, most people would never have heard of it.

[@dinochickarelli6327]

Yeah...true,..but I saw it as a 10 yr old at a drive in when it came out and thought it was the greatest sci fi movie ever!! Tried to build my own Blaster the next day!

[@SonofTiamat]

ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBAAAALLL!

[@miketocci]

Reading the comments, apparently a lot of people had heard of it before MST. Not everyone relies on such shows. Some people are actual fans of the genre.

[@Lumibear.]

The MST3K version is available in full on here, btw.

[@richardrobbin2225]

@@miketocci Well, I mean some folks would have loved this either way. Just saying, MST3K exposed some kids to Midnight Movies, B-movies & the like. Would have never known about Manos,Pod People or Cave Dwellers, Werewolf..this great beauty otherwise. There's just so much of it!!

[@Guernicaman]

Anyone else feel like the aliens look like naked turtles w/o a shell, walking upright? 🤔

[@loanaoftheshellpeople5627]

They look like E.T. I think this was made before. Maybe Spielberg saw this movie?

[@leodf1]

Oddly enough, I see them that way now. But when I saw this as a kid, I thought they looked exactly like E.T., like the comment above.

[@parisgreen4600]

Yes, I think I see the turtle influence more than ET. They're kind of adorable and it's a look I haven't seen before.

[@tejayschwartz7681]

I remember seeing stories about this in Starlog as a kid .. it however never played in my town ... I came across a VHS copy years later at a flea market and bought it .. excited to finally see it, well it was more than a disappointment .. but still fun ...

[@undeadnightorc]

That 'teen' looks 25.

[@paulhelberg5269]

I saw this at my local drive-in theater and considered it the perfect example of why science fiction films had trouble being taken seriously in those day. As dreadful as it was, I never forgot the experience of watching it. I guess that's something.

[@datsun210]

You are practically reading Wikipedia word for word.

[@bojangles2492]

That happens when you are dealing with a limited number of facts that don't change you can only word them so many ways.

[@bojangles2492]

Looking over the Wikipedia page now while listening to this, you are wrong wrong wrong. Other than the facts that align it is structured and worded completely different.

[@moviesgalore9947]

They should have titled it Angry Teenage Rebel Without A Laser Blaster But One Day He Finds A Laser Blaster Then He Has The Power To Destroy All His Enemies In The Small Town By Blasting The Shit Out Of Them With His New Laser Blaster

[@Dorelaxen]

You mean insanely AWESOME. As far as schlock goes, this is right down Troma lane, and I love it for that.

[@monsterhunter7765]

*"Metalstorm the Destruction of Jared Syn"* is one of my favorite Charles Band movies even if it isn't a great movie, I like the movie *Arena* too! thanks for the entertainment Jonny it was very enjoyable!👍🏼👍🏼

[@lordybomb]

saw it, in a little theater in suburban new jersey, as a kid- as part of a double feature... with... ???? funny enough, I'm now 54 and I remember so much of it... crap sticks?

[@TheRadioAteMyTV]

"crap sticks". I may land up using that, now that you have red pilled us all.

[@ianfindly3257]

Weather this movie is "bad" or not, I think THIS REVIEWER made some pretty stupid remarks and criticisms in this review, like requiring an explanation for why the alien fugitives skin was green? .. . well THAT is just SCI-FI for ya right there! It's like needing an explanation for why Spock's ears are pointed or why Chewbaka is hairy or why E.T. has a long neck.

[@jamesriegel13]

I have the movie Laserblast and I really enjoyed this movie

[@bb7931]

However, in Corvette Summer you have a movie with Luke Skywalker vs. The kid from Laserblast.

[@FatNorthernBigot]

Disenfranchised teen goes on murderous rampage... This movie was way ahead of its time. 😨

[@bojangles2492]

I know right, who needs an alien space weapon when you can pick up an assault rifle at the local sports store.

[@youwayo]

I was thinking of Chronicle.

[@prokesuk]

Rebel Without A Lightsaber. Also, I liked this film when I saw it. It was entertaining, an that's all I needed from it.

[@firstelvys]

This was and still is a personal fave of mine. I first saw it in the early 80's and fell in love with it. Yes, I know how cheezy and badly acted it is, but daggit I love it! I recommend the MST3K version for extra fun! LOL!!

[@TheRadioAteMyTV]

"Insanely bad" is such a huge compliment to the "movie". I saw it at the theatre playing with Star Wars in a follow up summer release (remember those?). It then came to cable shortly after and we all couldn't stop talking about how awful it was. MTS3000 I think did a show on it, they were the film's only hope if they did.

[@rbailey1240]

Laserblast was the last Comedy Central era MST3K movie.

[@blampfno]

I saw this at the drive-in. It was a double feature with Star Crash. I ate too many Starburst and turned into a sugar geyser when we got home. That's the best thing I can say about either of those movies, except the MST3K guys did a treatment for both, either in the series or as Rifftrax, depending on the title. Good stuff. Thanks for sharing :-)

[@raypalompo3720]

Saw this with my brothers in a theater in Fairfield, CA. From then on we referred to bad movies as "another Laserblast" (or another "Battle Beyond The Stars").

[@SonofTiamat]

I always questioned the intelligence of the aliens who went out of their way to disintegrate the mutated human, yet left behind the accoutrements that did it. Maybe the real plot is their neverending back and forth journey

[@adambrown3918]

I saw this movie at the drive-in with my parents in 1978. Even though the film is god-awful; it has a special place for me. A time capsule to happier times. 😊❤

[@jasonasturdevant5498]

In the beginning of your video one of the images is of Peter Gabriel from an old genesis concert, just FYI.

[@mrtrent100]

As a teen desperate for Sci fi films in the late 70s ,when You have seen Star wars 25 times this was great schlock . Awesome Stop motion!

[@Warsie-Fan]

I remember this film! My Dad would yell at me "Turn that s*** off right now!". As soon as he left it was turned back on off course 😉

[@aadamtx]

I first saw LASERBLAST on tv decades ago, and at least the great stop-motion aliens stuck with me. Many years later, I bought the DVD (the Collectors Edition copy is still on the shelf behind me, as I type). Always felt a bit sorry for Kim Milford, who died tragically at 37 of heart failure after open heart surgery. Talented musician.

[@generalkenobi7148]

Hello There My Good Friends!

[@chewey3rd]

This movie is one of my biggest guilty pleasures. I loved it as a kid back in 1978 and I love it today. Hahah :)

[@dmk7700]

I have this on VHS. So bad it's good. The 50's had Phil Tucker's "Robot Monster". Every decade has at least 1 bad classic.

[@heidifedor]

You should look at the 1972 made for TV movie,The Gargoyles.

[@mikebodak6808]

I feel like district nine tilted a hat to this gem.

[@RightURKen7]

I know what you mean. It was just as awful.

[@blazerocker1734]

Thankfully District 9 was a lot more thought-out.

[@ChiefExecutiveOrbiter]

@@RightURKen7 agreed 🤢

[@augusthawks6576]

I saw this when it came out. I was in the Air Force and I had a friend who worked at the base theater. He let me come in and see it for free. It still wasn't worth it.

[@davidjonfosterart]

I saw this in the theater as a kid and loved it and I saw it again and loved it because it brought back great memories of this time in my life and how things were during this era. I watch a lot of old movies movies like this are a time machine. The clothes, the cars, the locations, the slang used during the period it all is great and enjoyable to watch. Don’t care for Netflix originals or a lot of modern movies. This movie has a lot or nostalgia and charm as many of the old b-movies do regardless of their lack of critical acclaim or success at the box office they have great value that is priceless that a new movie can’t touch.

[@loanaoftheshellpeople5627]

I kind of like Laserblast, Mostly because of the Two Alien Creatures who appear throughout the film. They were definitely the Highlight of the Movie.

[@creepyskulldini581]

I would consider that MAKE UP (shown at 1:40 and 2:36 in the video here) another highlight. The laser effects aren't bad either. And Roddy McDowell's performance is good (as always) even though it's a pretty small role.

[@CanadianBeachcomber]

At 14 years old, I saw this with my friends in cinema #2 of the movie theatre in Parkway Mall. Saint John, New Brunswick. It was as bad as you describe.

[@heidifedor]

Laser Blast 2: Electric Boogaloo

[@pheonix5597]

Is there ANYTHING POSITIVE that you could have commented on about this movie?

[@Knaeben]

When we got our first VCR player back in the 1970s, we had about five movies and this was one of them. My dad hated it, but we watched it many times because it was all we had. It all made sense in elementary school.

[@axelalex4980]

Making the movie to match the poster...B grade genius!!

[@timrose9826]

HELP!!! PLEASE!!! there were 2 sci fi tv shows in the 70s possibly BBC both having the same story, groups of ppl living in different habitats unaware theyre on an off course spaceship. One was called "the Starlost". Anyone know the name of the other one??

[@nobbynoris]

A film that's a cross between Star Wars and the Cleveland elementary School massacre? Good call guys . . . Good call.

[@flbartlett]

I saw Laserblast in the theater. It is what I call a 'good bad movie'. If you want to see a really 'good bad movie' watch 'Humanoids from the Deep'. Awesome badness. They just don't make-em like they used to.

[@davekincla9818]

I love the MST3K take on this. Better than the film itself. Thought the make-up and stop motion was pretty good tho.

[@godmaentertainment4375]

Big fan of Band, I actually find far more inspiration in his work than Spielberg

[@ScreamingScallop]

As awful as this movie may be, it's hardly Band's worst mess. _Crash!_ (1976) and especially _End of the World_ (1977) are just jawdroppingly dumb and, despite a surfeit of explosions, dull.

[@moviesgalore9947]

More like insanely fun you had to be the right age in 1978 to enjoy this movie and I was.

[@rdvrdv8920]

I saw this movie at the Frankston drive-in. I think with Rattlers.

[@tonyeckman4822]

Classic Cult Chiller. Still have my Media vhs copy.

[@aquarius5719]

And yet it looks better than Hollywood modern rubbish.

[@brianjlevine]

Uh...isnt that Peter Gabriel with Genesis at 0:18?

[@ChiefExecutiveOrbiter]

Lol

[@ParadoxapocalypSatan]

Yes

[@matthewdavies2057]

Laserblast was good, even great at the time.

[@horracethegreat-mw6vu]

"at the time"? Wana explain THAT?

[@Cafeman_2D]

My cousin's family had cable and "Star Channel" (which became "The Movie Channel" later). I caught this film at about age 10. It didn't do much for me but it was kind of frightening. I just watched this (on YT I believe) like 2 months ago for laughs. The actor Kim is always running around without a shirt / or his shirt open. Over all it is a hilariously bad film (but with the hilarity).

[@cameronalexander359]

Shot over just 3 weeks?!.. no, no.. 3 weekends!

[@pixelkat1819]

As often is the case of these kind of low quality films, MST3K did their version. Worth it. Made it actually watchable.

[@Tonkotsu2k10]

This movie needs a Best of The Worst treatment.

[@Orlor]

This film is a guilty pleasure of mine.

[@Spindrift-id1ez]

The Alien ship was cool looking :)

[@JENDALL714]

They used to show this on the Movie for a Sunday Evening on Channel 5 in Los Angeles at least several times a year. Channel 5 always showed B movies, The Boy who Cried Werewolf, Sssssss, Legend of Bogey Creek, to name a few.

[@scottgillespie8011]

A poor movie, yes, but I thought some of the effects were good, like the stop-motion, the transformation make up, and the laser gun prop. “Insanely bad?” Guess you haven’t seen many bad movies for this to rate that level of hyperbole.

[@TheAnubis57]

To me it sort of an art house movie --like those strange foreign films. I'll bet if it was exactly done by the French it would be praised to high heavens. Anyway, this movie was 10x better than super CGI junk made today . How ironic that the last 3 Star Wars movies got really panned by the fans. BTW, enjoyed your presentation (as always).

[@ECLECTOb]

Hold up there man. That is an preposterous statement. This is literally the polar opposite of art -house . Strange foreign movies ??? I fail to see how it’s ironic Star Wars fans not liking the new movies . They are awful . Critical reviews weren’t great either. Bit once again .......Charles Band / Art -House 😂😂😂😂😂😂.

[@ECLECTOb]

Of course yes . If The ‘Foreign ‘ French would have taken time out from their “strange “ productions I’m sure they would have made an Oscar winning movie out of a Charles Band production with a low budget , an awful script , ridiculous bad Fx , awful directing and horrible acting . I love this movie by the way . I apologise if you are a kid or someone under the age of 11.

[@gameofyou1]

MST3K riffed on this movie, in one of their last seasons. That is a fun way to watch this movie.

[@tkin1973]

ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL?!?!?

[@crystalrose9261]

@@tkin1973 lol

[@battleelf6523]

I SAW THIS AT THE DRIVE-IN WHEN I WAS 5 OR 6. I NEVER KNEW THE NAME OF THE PICTURE AND HAVE NEVER SEEN IT REFERENCED BEFORE.

[@ACColorado]

I wanted to see this as a kid but missed it. I was crushed. I'm 53 now and always curious as to what that move was so I looked through Wikipedia today and finally found it. It looks so so bad now, but looked awesome when I was 7.

[@joanevans9508]

Hey! I just ordered the score by Joel Goldsmith and Richard Band on CD. The film went straight to Home Video here in Australia. The stop motion animated aliens were great. The rest of the film was just a silly waste of time. Which includes the blowing up of the "Star Wars" billboard, which is about the ONLY scene most people remember.

[@hadleymanmusic]

What do you mean bad? It had props, makeup, miniatures, models, lighting,pyro......... and I think superimposition this is a killer movie

[@hadleymanmusic]

Oh and posession too

[@hadleymanmusic]

Ok yea stop motion too

[@erextrum]

Love this movie!!!!

[@ALLNEWSUX1]

Actually this movie is quite entertaining and there are some great special effects and stop motion...as usual, just about anything from MST3K gets listed as a terrible movie even though 90% of them were more fun to watch than anything released in the last 20 years.

[@crusty21]

Roady McDogwell must have been very pissed or very releaved.....

[@aliciafranco5704]

I TOTALLY RENEGE LAZER BLAST❤❤❤❤❤❤❤I first seen it back in mid Y2K ! Great fun☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆ Great review- i must check out the comic and the actin figure alien 👽 🤘🤘🤘🔥🔥🔥😍😍😍😍😍😍

[@jerichomarsh3681]

The film has intresting parrel with school shootings. A Remake could possibly work.

[@anerysium]

I remember watching this movie on TV back in the 80's when I was young. It was shown many times back then though I never knew what the title of the movie until decades later.

[@troubadour723]

Great MST3K episode. Didn't even make the connection with the actor from The Godfather.

[@rickytoddbotelho9555]

One of my favorite movies. Saw it in a drive-in. Then the dude who became the monster was in another of my favorites corvette summer. Ooh la la!😀

[@snarkus63]

It was a good idea. Had it fallen into the hands of more competent filmmakers, it might've made an impact.

[@Helux1957]

When "cable TV" was just starting out here in New York City in the late 70s, and a new subscription service called "HBO" had one film to play, this film was the only thing that seemed to play on the "service." It was (is) terrible, and I never thought HBO would ever be a serious "movie channel." Boy... have things changed... lol

[@geoffshaw346]

My only beef with LASERBLAST-and I love low budget trash cinema- is the messed up stop motion shot of the final alien on a building having just shot Billy down like a dog.The alien was too big for the matte shot on the roof,and the creature didn't match the other aliens in size.Bad effects can ruin a movie.

[@jamesaccount612]

I think if not for Mystery Science Theater most people would not know about this movie.

[@erikramaekers63]

I don't think it's that bad.David Allen's stop motion fx are very good and funny

[@paullancon6616]

Greetings from France / salutations de France, Congratulations for your fine channel. Is there a "Space hunter - adventures in the forbidden zone" in the works?

[@ravenglennhomestead]

I first rented the VHS and thought it a D Movie that had some charm...especially the concept of the aliens...and blowing up the Star Wars ad sign...And I have a DVD copy of it in my library...there are some movies that are terrible B Movies but make fantastic D Movies...so this in my opinion is a really good D Movie...lol...

[@dumbcat]

i think the building they used for the sheriff's office in LaserBlast (1978) might be the same building they used for the pawn shop heist in the movie Drive (2011). the building has the same number of vertical posts out front. you can even see the same old vertical water drain (now painted) on the first post. the posts are still attached to the concrete with the same brackets.

[@paulforder591]

Laserblast had sooo much potential that wasn't developed properly. The only standout was the stop-motion alien policemen. In addition, the film ended too abruptly, which was typical of 1970s films and TV series. 🤗

[@chuckcookus]

There are bad movies and there are BAD movies. Laserblast was fine.

[@fasthackm]

The movie could have been greater if a few key points were expounded on such as the final scene. Why couldn't Billy put up a greater fight? Maybe he could have destroyed the alien (the demonic) ship? Could have been much better. Upon dawning the amulet, Billy becomes 'possessed' by a demon.

[@glenobrien894]

It was a Pretty Fun Movie. We didn't care if it Was Great Movie. Like an old Ron Wood Movie .And I was under The Impression the The Operators Mutation was Caused by some kind of Radiation from the Stone in the Amulet That powered the Laser. I had heard rumors That Lucas or Spielberg wanted to redo the Movie for Fun But nothing ever became of it

[@mapesdhs597]

In the comments here it's very revealing how so many say that, as a child when the film was released, they really liked it (myself included). Too often these old movies get judged not just from an adult perspective, but also from a point of view of being overly familiar with "modern" effects. Back then, kids thought the skeleton fight from "Jason and the Argonauts" was incredible. What mattered to a child watching a movie at that time was not the same as might be relevant today. I can remember loving the idea of having some kind of laser gun thing and being able to zap stuff far away. Not so many years later I tried to make something that would at least appear similar with the right weather conditions (mild mist/fog), namely covering the inside of a thick duffle coat arm with tin foil and holding several removed camera flash units up the sleeve (in the early 80s it was easy to take apart and reuse such tech found from landfill, no modern black box nonsense), the rest of the coat and hood done up so I was hard to see. The flash produced a pretty good beam in misty conditions. One early winter evening I went out, was confronted by a couple of similar age young teens (perhaps a year or so younger), to whom I said something deliberately robotic and then fired the flash arm at one of them, right in the face (probably while making a zap noise of my own); it worked perfectly, was insanely bright, scared the heck out of them and they ran off. :D I know they didn't see my face. I wonder if ever they figured out what they'd seen, or if they told anyone. This was a rural village on an island, ripe for mystery and suchlike (back then there were kids in my school class who'd rarely been off the island). Laserblast a bad movie? Ha! Don't knock it, I lived it for a glorious minute or two. :D Though suffice to say I did of course run home afterwards, hanging around not wise in case they came back, perhaps with others (I was the cliche nerd back then, fighting was never my forte). Alas I never did get to make something which could take out the local church tower bell which sounded grud awful every Sunday for hour after hour (only got as far as making a Gauss rifle that could embed a nail in a wall), but I was obsessed with lasers for many years, used to look for HeNe units from laserdisc players rescued from landfill. After I went to uni in the late 80s, I ended up turning some of these, along with the many retrieved tiny motors, prisms, splitters and mirrors, into a portable laser show; I bought a smoke machine and did a couple of parties for people, which was a lot of fun (still have all the kit somewhere). So if it wasn't for Laserblast, those parties a decade+ later would have been way more boring. :)

[@wintermagebarthow8481]

I remember the lazer gun from this movie. I have always loved B movies especially as an exhibition of off kilter imagination.

[@lordzaphodthestrange7164]

Did anyone else notice the viewfinder on the alien gun was the top of the tricorder from Star Trek? LOL 😆

[@benw9949]

I had mercifully forgotten this movie, except for the title and the sequence with the aliens, obviously miniatures, probably stop-motion, both cool and laughable in this weird way. -- I don't remember any of the rest of it. -- I remember thinking it would've been way more interesting with more about the aliens and none of the human plot. Now I'm curious. I think I saw this on TV as a Saturday afternoon science fiction movie. At least one of the main three networks used to do that back in the day, before there were 99+ channels with nothing on.... Heh.