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Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983) -- Peter Strauss stars as a galactic bounty hunter menaced by a mechanical madman. Molly Ringwald co-stars.
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983) -- Three women made an emergency landing on a planet plagued with a fatal disease, but are captured by dictator Overdog...

Overview

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Director:
Lamont Johnson
Writers:
Stewart Harding (story) and
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Release Date:
20 May 1983 (USA) more
Genre:
Adventure | Sci-Fi more
Tagline:
Journey with Wolff and Niki, an interstellar adventurer and young rebel. On a mission to rescue three stranded women from a planet no one has warned them about. Because no one has ever returned.
Plot:
Three women made an emergency landing on a planet plagued with a fatal disease, but are captured by dictator Overdog... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Peter Strauss ... Wolff

Molly Ringwald ... Niki

Ernie Hudson ... Washington

Andrea Marcovicci ... Chalmers

Michael Ironside ... Overdog
Beeson Carroll ... Grandman Patterson
Hrant Alianak ... Chemist

Deborah Pratt ... Meagan
Aleisa Shirley ... Reena
Cali Timmins ... Nova
Paul Boretski ... Jarrett
Patrick Rowe ... Duster
Reggie Bennett ... Barracuda Leader
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Adventures in the Creep Zone
Road Gangs
Spacehunter (USA) (DVD box title)
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Runtime:
90 min
Country:
Canada | USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Metrocolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby
Certification:
Iceland:L | USA:PG (#27017) | UK:15 (video rating) (1986) (uncut) | UK:PG (original rating) (cut) | Australia:PG | Finland:K-12 | Norway:16 | Sweden:15
Filming Locations:
Moab, Utah, USA more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The "tape machines" were on loan from Brainstorm (1983), which was being filmed on an adjacent set. more
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: Studio carpark visible when the ship first lands on the planet. more
Quotes:
Nicki: Us loners got to stick together. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Step Brothers (2008) more

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6 out of 7 people found the following comment useful.
Classic Cheese, 10 September 2000
Author: James Talley (jtalley4n6@aol.com) from Salina, KS

I make a point to catch Spacehunter every time it airs (usually after 1 a.m.). It's classic cheese, and I submit there's a place in our moral-cinematic universe for such films.

What films? Oh, having Michael Ironside as the villain is a good clue. If I had to define them...films so goofy (yet riddled with neat ideas that only the low-budget creative intellect can conjure) that we harken back to adolescence and think how cool these films would have been/were when we saw them with our junior high pals.

Yes, this is MST3K material, but lovingly so, nostalgically so. An ugly duckling that never becomes a swan--never even really gives such a transformation a shot--but one we can groove on precisely because it's so dorky.

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