Year: 1986
Duration: 01:26:33
Directed by: Fred Olen Ray
Actors: Ross Hagan, Sandy Brooke, Susan Stokey, Marya Ganty, Dawn Wildsmith
Language: English
Country: USA
Also known as: Prison Ship, Starslammer: The Escape, The Adventures of Taura: Prison Ship Star Slammer, Gefangene im Weltraum
Description: What a missed opportunity! Star Slammer is the opus of a space miner named Taura (Brooke) who burns off the hand of the Galactic strong arm played by Hagan. She’s sent to a prison ship full of the usual WIP stereotypes. Unfortunately Brooke is the only one in this film to get topless. A shame considering the nice assets of the Warden. There is alot of lifting in this film. A clip from Carpenter’s Dark Star, The Return of The Alien’s Deadly Spawn monster, and a few others. I’m not sure where the final space fight scene is from, but it’s so poorly edited together you can’t tell who belongs in which ship. From the looks of things Star Slammer must have been edited on a very low end linear beta system which causes constant glitches between cuts.
This film plays like your typical 80’s Fred Olen Ray or Troma film, and the space angle is a refreshing twist. One truly inspired scene is Hagen’s character having himself beaten by henchmen for S&M thrills, but the whipping of two female prisoners isn’t shown! Other highlights include a child like el santo beating up a muscle man, and death by plate. If this film had had a few more rewrites for dialogue and pushed a little harder in the sex sleaze area, it could of become a classic. There are cameos by Johnny Legend, Aldo Ray, and Bobbie Bressie.
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