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The Terrornauts (1967)
Best Movie Ever!
The Killer Tomatoes have nothing on the Terrornauts. This could very well be the worst movie ever made. I think among my favorite moments is the flimsy space fortresses appendages flopping all around during the something-less-than-epic space battle. It's also a very well known fact that any good attacking spaceship should have a flip open front end and weak red light as a weapon. Luckily, our intrepid space travelers have their custom swim caps to see them through. Particularly impressive, the aluminum funnel budget. Valuable lessons of science and space to be gleaned from The Terrornauts: Not only does fire burn in space, but the laws of temperature and gravity still apply. Smoke goes up, spaceship parts fall down. Finally, carrying incredible feminist overtones, one learns that a woman is definitely required to properly fire a defensive space missile. Good clean fun for the whole family.
Hibernation (2005)
One of my personal top three.
We all arrive at this moment at some point, the point when we realize that someone's death is final. No more phone calls or knocks on the door from that person. No hope that they're simply away or in hiding. There really are no words for this. It's something each of us has to define for ourselves in our own way. It's not about what they were doing, it's about how they arrived at the moment they accepted the one law of nature that's inescapable, and about how we still don't completely let go.
The policeman, Robin's father, knows exactly what's happening and lets it go on because somewhere down deep, as we all do, he's holding on to that one tiny shred of hope that somehow, it's all a bad dream and Robin will return. He's powerless to stop them from trying, or maybe just loves them enough to let the boys come to terms with it despite their crime.
I have never been more moved by a short film. Never.
The Perpetual Motion Machine (1973)
Print located.
A 16mm print of this film has been located (May, 2015) and an effort is being made to make it available, whether that be on DVD or as a download or streaming, such as on YouTube. See the message board discussion on the film's page and feel free to add any comments or update the page if you worked on or have viewed this forgotten gem.
This was a student film by Mark Griffiths and is archived at UCLA. It may be the lone, or lone surviving print as it was never picked up for distribution in the USA. There may have been distribution in the UK as there is a UK page for the film with a stated release date of 1981. An attempt is being made to contact Mr. Griffiths to collect his thoughts on resurrecting this film for possible inclusion as a bonus feature on another of his works, or as part of a compilation of similar films through UCLA.