Film
Hellfire Video Club & Bristol Bad Film Club: Turkish Star Wars
- Director
- Çetin Inanç
- Certificate
- No Cert
- Running Time
- 97 mins
With flagrant and, it must be said, highly entertaining disregard for copyright laws, the wild west that was Turkish popular cinema of the 1980s specialised in low-budget rip-offs of big Hollywood hits. None is more celebrated among bad movie connoisseurs than Dünyayi Kurtaran Adam, aka The Man Who Saves the World, aka The Turkish Star Wars. A classic of shoddy remakesploitation, its plot concerns a space wizard who sets out to steal human brains. In addition to rubber robots and fluffy monsters, the film includes stolen scenes from George Lucas’s film, which are inexpertly spliced in.
For obvious legal reasons, this film is rarely shown today, but the Hellfire Video Club is teaming up with the Bristol Bad Film Club for this rare (and free) screening of the new 2K restoration for Scalarama. Note that although all the tickets were snapped up the moment they became available, at least 25 have been held back for distribution on the door. So get there early and form an orderly queue.
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