I pride myself in my knowledge and appreciation of bad films. Back in the late 1970s, Harry Medved wrote an amazingly funny and brilliant book called "The 50 Worst Movies of All Time" and it kicked off the craze to see and appreciate bad films. I actually found and watched all fifty of the films from the book and then went in search for more awful films and decided to try watching IMDb's infamous Bottom 100 list. Not all of them are available and several have no subtitles or dubbing, so I cannot possibly see them all. However, I've seen a huge number of them and have noticed an annoying trend--nearly all the American films on the list were skewered on "Mystery Science Theater 3000" and MANY really bad films were never on this show--mostly because they couldn't get the royalties for all the films. Plus, other bad films have come out since the show ended. As a result, many absolutely horrid films NEVER appear on the list even though they are much worse than those featured on "MST 3000"...such as "Plan 9 From Outer Space", "They Saved Hitler's Brain", "Robot Monster", "The Room" and ALL of the films of Larry Buchanan, William Grefe and Ted Mikels! Clearly this list is NOT even close to being the 100 worst films...just the lowest rated and apparently the TV show's fans vote!I say all this because although "Warrior of the Lost World" is a terrible film, I've seen hundreds of films that are worse. But it is bad...really bad. Part of it is because they somehow decided to use Robert Ginty in the lead. I am sure he was a nice guy but he wasn't leading man material and his biggest claims to fame had been supporting parts on the TV shows "Black Sheep Squadron" and "The Paper Chase". Also on hand are Donald Pleasance (who would appear in ANYTHING provided it paid) and Fred Williamson (ditto). As for the film itself, it really looks like it was done with almost no script--just a broad outline and lots of guys running around firing the weirdest sounding machine guns I've ever heard in a movie. And, our hero and his babe escaping again and again from some ill-defined enemy.The bottom line is that YES this is a bad film with an excruciatingly low budget and little to recommend it. But it's not THAT bad...at least not Bottom 100 bad.

A nomad mercenary (Robert Ginty) on a high-tech motorcycle helps bring about the downfall of the evil Orwellian government, the Omega.It seems popular to give this film a 1 or 2, and I can certainly understand why. As a "Mad Max" ripoff, it is not a very good one. And even the director claims he was hired on without a script or anything for source material besides a poster.But there is some fun here, and I think with a few changes this might be a decent film. Maybe. Maybe not. But, first and foremost, the motorcycle computer is obnoxious. Remove or modify that and you already have an improvement... Perhaps a remake could actually make this a lovable cult film?

of all the post apocalyptic Mad Max rip-offs I've seen(and I've seen far too many), this one was one of the funniest. That's because, joining Robot Holocaust, it is one of the sincerely worst 'future' movies I've ever laughed at.Our story begins with a blurry shot of our 'hero' riding his bike along a pleasant lane in Ohio or Vermont or someplace. This is supposed to be the post apocalyptic world of the future, and instead it looks like a lovely vacation place. I expected to see cows grazing placidly in the fields on either side of the road. He gets attacked by the cops of the future, who have spikes on their bumpers(which is how you can distinguish them from the cops of today),and talking cars a la Knight Rider. The scruffy bearded loser's..err..HERO'S souped up futuristic bike talks as well, in a truly annoying Valley Girl accent that made me want to get a flamethrower and a blow torch and just melt that thing down. The Warrior(does he have that name on his post apocalyptic drivers license I wonder?) mumbles like he's half asleep, when he's not whining at the top of his lungs. The urge to slap his mug was so strong I kicked my cat(not really)hard as a relief valve.The bike can apparently jump higher than Evil Knievel's, and besides its amazingly irritating voice it also has armament built in. The Warrior escapes the police, then has an incomprehensible run-in with some grungy guys in a junkyard. Now this, boys and girls, is why it's best to stay out of junkyards. Some creepy people hang around there.Anyway, doofus boy rides his bike into a wall(he's either blind or stupid. Guess which one I'm picking), and is healed by a group of mystical(i.e., they wear long white robes and drone a lot of nonsense all the time)people who claim that he's the 'Chose One'. Chosen as the world's most annoying guy? O.K., yeah, I could see that.These toga wearing ninnies want idiot mitten to go save a scientist from the forces of Evil, a 1984-esque society that's about as scary as a Shirley Temple film(o.k., that's pretty scary, but whatever). It's run by Donald Pleasance, a staple of awful 80's films in which he plays a totally inept villain(I.e., Puma Man). He goes off with the scientist's lovely daughter, whining all the way. Somehow they manage to get her Dad out, but Mr. Chivalrous abandons the girl to the loving hands of the New World Order for no particular reason except for the fact that he's a total rank coward. And a jerk, to boot.The Warrior, a.k.a Puss Boy, ends up in some weird fight where he takes on everything from cowboys to ninjas, we're never sure why. His big move is to punch a girl. This guy is a real rank a-hole, and that's no doubt. After that, there's some scenes of a peculiar torture session with the scientist's captured daughter making a really peculiar noise, and then the 'hero' takes on a semi with some puny flamethrowers on the front, dubbed Megaweapon(because apparently they decided not to call it B.J & the Bear, for licensing reasons). The only thing that this accomplishes is the stupid Valley Girl bike being crushed, which is a major props. Unfortunately the horrible bike gets resurrected later, much to our chagrin.At the last, The Bearded Boob decides to return and save the scientist's daughter after all, because she was really hot. The Evil Prosser(Pleasance) has brainwashed her into killing her father and Hero-Boy, a task which I would have been supremely happy with if she'd just carried it out adequately. But NO! Couldn't have that, could we?The end of the film is particularly repulsive, with the lovely girl and our galloping Mr. McNasty locking lips for what seems like a full ten minutes before he rides off into the sunset. All I can ask is: "Why, WHY? Why would you hurt us so much when we've done nothing to you?!"

Alright, here's how my experience with this movie went, my brother bought a copy on VHS and we watched it. And I almost died of laughter. Some people would say, "hey, if it's that pitifully funny, why not give it a bad rating?" but the thing is, it was so ungodly entertaining, that I couldn't give it possibly anything less than a nine, and the fact that it has the best theme music ever, coupled with the run time on the box being wrong, and another excellent performance by Donald Pleaeance, it was just too good to be true. So basically, go find this movie, I haven't seen the MST3k version, but would like to, it doesn't matter, all I know is that the original is a true wonder to behold.