Cult Cuts Volume 52 (Return to the Video Store: Post-Apocalyptic Warriors and Intergalactic Adventurers Part One)
#1/4: Voyage of the Rock Aliens (1984)
(9/10): This is just one stupid, bonkers and feel good fun time.
Voyage of the Rock Aliens follows a group of aliens who are seeking the planet where Rock was created and they decide to stop by Earth.
They land in the town of Speelburgh where they come across Dee Dee and their leader begins to fall for her yet soon after they also meet Frankie, Dee Dee's Boyfriend and his posse/band, The Pack.
Dee Dee is always upset with Frankie as violence always seems to be his answer as well as that he never allows her to sing with him.
Dee Dee is given the opportunity to sing though when she is invited to sing with the Aliens during the battle of the Bands and of course Frankie takes this personal and begins to try to dispose of the Aliens.
Meanwhile two recently escaped mental patients begin wreaking havoc and they set their sights on the celebration.
This is not a good movie, but it's a culmination of so much random and eighties that it is just such an easygoing watch.
Also if you didn't get it yet, this is actually a musical and the whole thing is just a jam, the music consists of banger after banger.
The costumes are both ridiculous and well made, we get; some Grease looks in Frankie and The Pack, the Aliens resemble DEVO, Dee Dee is almost like a Cyndi Lauper look alike and the mental patients look maniacally exaggerated.
The set design and production are pretty solid all around for a film like this, a lot of the more unrealistic effects seem intentional.
We have a couple of big names, Jermaine Jackson makes a special appearance in what is essentially an opening music video and then we have a familiar face in Michael Berryman, who plays Chainsaw, one of the mental patients.
The soundtrack is extremely catchy and the dance choreography that goes along with it all makes it feel like the perfect party movie.
Voyage of the Rock Aliens might not be perfect but it's still a unique and under appreciated time capsule of eighties nostalgia that is worth watching if you're looking for something different.
#1/4: Voyage of the Rock Aliens (1984)
(9/10): This is just one stupid, bonkers and feel good fun time.
Voyage of the Rock Aliens follows a group of aliens who are seeking the planet where Rock was created and they decide to stop by Earth.
They land in the town of Speelburgh where they come across Dee Dee and their leader begins to fall for her yet soon after they also meet Frankie, Dee Dee's Boyfriend and his posse/band, The Pack.
Dee Dee is always upset with Frankie as violence always seems to be his answer as well as that he never allows her to sing with him.
Dee Dee is given the opportunity to sing though when she is invited to sing with the Aliens during the battle of the Bands and of course Frankie takes this personal and begins to try to dispose of the Aliens.
Meanwhile two recently escaped mental patients begin wreaking havoc and they set their sights on the celebration.
This is not a good movie, but it's a culmination of so much random and eighties that it is just such an easygoing watch.
Also if you didn't get it yet, this is actually a musical and the whole thing is just a jam, the music consists of banger after banger.
The costumes are both ridiculous and well made, we get; some Grease looks in Frankie and The Pack, the Aliens resemble DEVO, Dee Dee is almost like a Cyndi Lauper look alike and the mental patients look maniacally exaggerated.
The set design and production are pretty solid all around for a film like this, a lot of the more unrealistic effects seem intentional.
We have a couple of big names, Jermaine Jackson makes a special appearance in what is essentially an opening music video and then we have a familiar face in Michael Berryman, who plays Chainsaw, one of the mental patients.
The soundtrack is extremely catchy and the dance choreography that goes along with it all makes it feel like the perfect party movie.
Voyage of the Rock Aliens might not be perfect but it's still a unique and under appreciated time capsule of eighties nostalgia that is worth watching if you're looking for something different.