We ’ve been admiringsomeprettyslickStar war fan film late — but what about the onetime - school , DIY hooey ?
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When plastic film - maker Jay Scheurle and his bud wanted to have optical maser and light - sabre back in the seventies , they fray line directly into their Super-8 film fund . When they wanted to show a robot walker falling down , they used lay off - motion animation , painstakingly ( well , somewhat painstakingly ) stupefy every rip - second of its movement and parentage .
This unnamed classic also features King Kong , Close Encounters of the Third Kind , Gumby and a few other religious cult classics in a weird stew of insanity . The Mr. Bill influence is intelligibly very strong in the claymation and stop - motion sequences — let in one disturbing instant where one of the kids puddle it look as though he ’s sliced his arm open . You screw , for kicks .
Writes Scheurle :
Back in the fourth dimension of Star Wars and Close Encounters , Space 1999 and BattleStar Galactica , and Mr. Bill , my crony Rick Pool and I made movie and used brother Jeff as an superfluous and stunt - man . There was barricade - motion , simulation on wires , and laser that were hand - scratched into the Super 8 cinema - livestock . Summer fun …
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