Before the invention of YouTube, you’d only find gems like this at estate sales in Hollywood. And the only way to play such treasures would be if you owned a 8mm projector, eight-track tape or some other obsolete technology brought to you be the number 8.
HOWEVER: We have the technologies today, and just like Christmas in July, they give is insane film clips and trailers of things that Should Not Exist, But Somehow Do.
The trailer to WILD WILD PLANET is awesomely, ambitiously bad. Take a peek.
My favorite bits:
- the four-armed thugs who look like offspring of a Terminator-Matrix union
- the women who know kung fu and how to disappear
- the twisted plan by some man to transmorgify into a half-man, half-woman using transporter tech stolen from the U.S.S. Enterprise or whatever
The ’90s and ’00s (oughts? oh-oh’s?) brought us movie after movie where the heroines are tough women in black leather catsuits with guns. Maybe this all started with Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman, but it’s taken off ever since.
As this movie proves, tough women (good or bad) in ‘the ’60s and ’70s movies didn’t wear black leather catsuits. No. They wore red flowing polyester. If red flowing polyester wasn’t available, they wore bright orange or green.
If anybody actually WATCHED this movie, as in paid actual monies and rented it or whatever, please shout.
Also: if you are brave or crazy enough to fire it up on Netflix or whatever, please report back on what happened to the crazy man with the mustache.
The Red Pen of Doom 
“Wild, Wild Planet” appeared on Turner Classic Movies a short while back and I just watched it with the wife last night. We took a drink every time someone died or there was a bit of cheezy 1960s future tech. Was a barrel of laughs.
To answer your question, Mr. Moustachio, in typical James Bond villain style, drowns as his evil laboratory floods with blood and other biological “debris”. It reminded me of the elevators in “The Shining”, only much, much more ridiculous.
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I want of them there futuristic Butane torch guns. Kill the bad guys, then crust some flan. That would be better than a flying car!
Good lord, Guy, where do you find these things?
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