As with too many of Charles Band’s flicks from any era of his career, the impression that one gets from Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn (1983) is one of impoverishment. Here, working as the director under his producer father, he tries to realize an epic yet incomprehensible script with leaden dialogue via a handful of bad actors, a score of extras, some shoddy special effects, and an acre of scrubland, all tied together with a gimmick: the theatrical 3-D process which boomed and busted in 1983.
#1 by Ed on October 1, 2010 - 7:07 pm
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Am I the only person who feels Charles Band would have benefited greatly from having Roger Corman teach him how to do low budget filmmaking for a few years? Say what you will about Corman flicks but at least they could usually fill up the running time.
#2 by Nathan Shumate on October 2, 2010 - 8:15 am
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I don’t know. You’d think that growing up on father Albert Band’s movie sets would have taught him all he’s going to learn.
#3 by Ed on October 3, 2010 - 10:16 am
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Indeed, and yet look at what he’s done. It’s a damn shame because I dig quite a few of the films from Empire.
#4 by MatthewF on October 10, 2010 - 1:22 am
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This, along with ‘SpaceHunter:Adventures in the forbidden zone’ haunted the video hire shops of my childhood, for some reason it was absolutely everywhere. As a ten year old the front cover promised so much, but the movie delivered so little I can still remember 25 years later. Great title though.