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Jon O'Brien

40 years ago, one sci-fi thriller beat The Twilight Zone at its own game


You tend to know what you’re getting with an early ‘80s sci-fi from Roger Corman’s New World Pictures. Recycled sets which look as if they’ve been, and sometimes were, assembled from discarded McDonald’s packaging. Shameless full-frontal nudity, always of the female kind, obviously. And a narrative that blatantly takes cues from recent genre hits (usually Star Wars).

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