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Issue: Spring 2013


Spacehunter Adventures in the Forbidden Zone(1983) movie review

Movie poster, Spacehunter Adventures in the Forbidden Zone; Festivale film review

Movie poster, Spacehunter Adventures in the Forbidden Zone; Festivale film review

Wolff (Peter Strauss) is making a precarious living with his beautiful assistant travelling the spaceways. He intersepts a call offering a reward to rescue three beautiful women who escaped a spaceship disaster in an escape pod.

Wolff finds a frontier world ruled in part by the Overdog. Overdog has the three women and will use them to keep himself alive.

Meanwhile, Wolff befriends a local waif, Nikki (Molly Ringwald) who is part guide, part sidekick.

It's unashamed space opera. Amusing and undemanding to watch.

Movie poster, Spacehunter Adventures in the Forbidden Zone; Festivale film review

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by Ali Kayn
Australian release 1 December 1983
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Title: Spacehunter Adventures in the Forbidden Zone(1983) (1983)
Written by: Stewart Harding and Jean LaFleur (story); David Preston & Edith Rey & Daniel Goldberg & Len Blum (screenplay)
Directed by: Lamont Johnson
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The Players: Peter Strauss, Molly Ringwall, Ernie Hudson, Andrea Marcovicci, Michael Ironside

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