Planet des Grauens (1986)

Planet des Grauens: Directed by Albert Pyun. With Dru-Anne Perry, Gina Calabrese, Linda Kerridge, Shayne Farris. Sometime in the distant future, a fledgling band gets an opportunity for a breakthrough, if they can make it in time to a faraway planet to perform in a very popular club.

“I was in my 20u0026#39;s in the 1980u0026#39;s and there just wasnu0026#39;t too much to worry about during most of the decade, so films often drifted into sci-fi fantasy territory, just like they did during the 1950u0026#39;s, an also relatively carefree decade.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThis is a sci-fi musical about an all-girl group named the Vicious Lips that lands a gig at an interstellar concert event. On their way to the venue, their spaceship crashes on a desert planet, and they bicker and fight with each other in the dark ship wreckage. Thereu0026#39;s also a monster of some sort lurking around, and the girlu0026#39;s sleazy manager is wandering around the desert looking for help with two mostly-naked blondes.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe girls look like a live-action Jem and the Holograms, and their New Wave rock music is awful. Theyu0026#39;re shown on stage using fictional musical instruments, kind of partially disassembled guitars with blue bug zappers on the end. Starring no one youu0026#39;ve ever heard of, and they are uniformly terrible actors. Written and directed by Z-movie auteur Albert Pyun. Empire Pictures produced it, but from what I read, this wasnu0026#39;t released in the U.S. until the DVD in 2011. Some people seem to have elevated it to cult status, and it is actually on a u0026quot;Cult Movie Marathonu0026quot; DVD set, which seems to get pretty good reviews on the worldu0026#39;s largest website, probably owing to the viewersu0026#39; collective nostalgia, not the quality of the film.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI give it 3/10 for originality.”