Lobster Man from Mars Movie Review

When a rich movie producer (Tony Curtis) learns from his accountant that he must produce a flop as a tax writeoff, he buys and promotes the titular homemade sci-fi movie from a young Ed Wood type. The film takes up most of the narrative, a cross between Corman's It Conquered the World, Robot Monster, and other notorious turkeys, about an invading lobster man, a screaming damsel, and a metaphor-spouting detective (stand-up comic Tommy Sledge). Not strictly an sf film (and not too original either, having borrowed the premise of Mel Brooks’ The Producers,) but enough knowing spoofs of the genre warrant its inclusion here. Narration by radio's Dr. Demento.

1989 (PG) 84m/C Tony Curtis, Deborah Foreman, Patrick Macnee, Tommy Sledge, Billy Barty, Phil Proctor, Anthony Hickox; D: Stanley Shiff; W: Bob Greenberg; C: Gerry Lively. VHS, Beta, LV LIV