Prison Ship (1986)

R  |   |  Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi  |  1986 (USA)
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Two women who have been unjustly confined to a prison planet plot their escape, all the while having to put up with lesbian guards, crazed wardens and mutant rodents.

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Cast overview, first billed only:
Sandy Brooke ...
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Mike (as Susan Stokey)
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Bantor
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Warden Exene
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The Inquistor
Dawn Wildsmith ...
Muffin
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Garth (as Richard Alan Hench)
Michael Sonye ...
Krago (as Michael D. Sonye)
Lindy Skyles ...
The Sovereign
Bobbie Bresee ...
Marai (as Bobbi Bresee)
Danita Aljuwani ...
Ruby
Dori Renee Crofts ...
Scratch
Liat Mathias ...
Stace
Mimi Monaco ...
Squeeker
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Marni (as Vivian Louise Schilling)
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Two women who have been unjustly confined to a prison planet plot their escape, all the while having to put up with lesbian guards, crazed wardens and mutant rodents.

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Untamed. Uncaged. Unleashed In Space.

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Action | Comedy | Sci-Fi

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1986 (USA)  »

Also Known As:

Prison Ship: 2005  »

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Shot in 1984, not released until 1988. See more »

Quotes

Bantor: Drink up! Drink up, little angels! Hell has just come to your party!
[Bursts into maniacal laughter]
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The closing credits promise: "The Adventures of Taura continue in CHAIN GANG PLANET." See more »

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Written by Brigadier General Daniel Butterfield
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Cheap and relentlessly stupid, PRISON SHIP is out of bucks, Rogers
1 June 2000 | by See all my reviews

OK. So the line above is kinda silly, but so is this film.

Fred Olen ray is a master at spending no money, and somehow always having a film to show for it. Granted, most of his films end up being very static due to lack of monies for alternate takes and complex editing.

OK. So Ray isn't what you'd call Speilberg. His films concentrate on borrowed sets and costumes(this one's got them), has-been actors( Sid Haig, John Carradine, Aldo Ray, ect.), and some of the most stiff and lifeless dialogue this side of Ray Dennis Steckler.

PRISON SHIP( I saw this as STAR SLAMMER) is a piece of junk, filled with borrowed effects from BATTLESTAR GALLACTICA and BUCK RODGERS. There is some skin, but not enough. Mostly, there is talk, and as many a reviewer likes to point out, Fred Olen Ray makes very chatty pictures. That's because he either doesn't have the creativity, or the perspective, to realize that you don't need a ton of money to make a good film. You just need talent.

Why should I continue? PRISON SHIP is cheesy, and painful. Don't watch this unless you must see every film that John Carradine is in (or you really like train wrecks).


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