The credits roll in neon green with constant reminders this is a Charles Band film, so you know its gotta be good. It seems some claymation ETs left behind a weapon that is more of a fire blaster than say a laser blaster. It fits on the right arm and blasts things setting them on fire, eat your heart out Bruce Campbell. Billy Duncan (Kim Milford) stumbles upon it in the desert and learns to master it, as it takes over him.The film is campy and cheesy, but fails to be entertaining in that aspect. This is Eddie Deezen's first acting credit.Guide: No f-bombs. Near sex. Near nudity.

IHE references for the win! Anyways, the movie sucks. Jokes aside, it's terrible. It's charming in its terribleness, but it still stinks. How they managed to pull off stop motion "naked turtle aliens" and so many explosions with next to no budget is a mystery of the highest level. Seriously did they happen to have a butt-load of explosives just lying around? And did they ask for car donations?Doesn't matter. Still stinks. Funny, yes. Silly, yes. Good? No. Very far from good. Though it is a fun watch if you are bored, drunk, smoking weed, because if you are doing all that, you will probably forget you're watching one of the worst movies of all time.

This movie is definitely hard to talk about. There is some character development for the main character. It is terrible but better than nothing. There are a lot of cool scenes of this guy just firing a laser, and that is why you are here and why this movie is so enjoyable. The film also has an odd tendency to show every explosion from every possible angle. There are some cool looking aliens that are done with some nice practical effects. There are some long unsubbed dialogue scenes with the aliens but you are too busy enjoying the cool effect that you don't care and what they are saying is pretty easy to figure out. Most of the time you are just looking at the background to see something strange, laughing at how bad the film is, or waiting for the movie to show you something cool. I enjoyed it a lot, but if I would feel guilty if I gave it more than a five.

Hey, you get what you get with a Charles Band production. That guy has been producing an army of schlock theatrical and straight-to-video movies since the mid-1970's. Laserblast is one of his earlier efforts, and actually, one of his best. This guy just seems to have no "Off" switch. Type his name into the IMDb search box for an idea. Almost 250 movies, and he's still going strong.A buddy and I first saw Laserblast at a Drive-In 1978, with a bong and a bag of weed between the seats. The weed probably helped, but we loved it and had some great laughs (and about 20 pounds of popcorn). The Dynamation was pretty fair, and the story was certainly what we'd come to expect from our Drive-In experiences. I just caught it again on a MST3K rerun. Still pretty funny, even without the SOL boys help. (Keep an eye out for boom mikes in frame and film crew reflections. It's a Band trademark.)I have no facts to back this up, but it's my guess that Band just drives his car through the wall of a local film school, grabs a sophomore director, crew, and actors, offers them 100 bucks each and a listing in the film credits. Seems to have worked pretty well for him too. He's responsible for the Puppet Master, Dollman, and Demonic Toys series of films, along with low rent classics such as Zombiethon, Vicious Lips, Galactic Gigolo, and Murdercycle.Laserblast is better than average for this genre of films, but you DO need to be in the mood for them. And hey, nothing Charles Band has done is as bad as say...Monster a-Go Go or Red Zone Cuba. Oh, and somebody a few comments back made mention that this movie hugely ripped off E.T. Well, if you have any questions about similar looking aliens or story elements, take them up with Spielberg, because Laserblast came out 4 years earlier than E.T.