Sorry, this movie sucks

Lack of good storyline.

Excellent but underrated film

Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

I was expecting Laserblast to be awful, judging by its position in the "Mystery Science Theater 3000: 10 Worst Movies They Riffed" list and its reputation. It is a bad movie- though I can see why people would find it entertaining to watch- but it is much better than the likes of Monster A-Go Go, Manos the Hands of Fate, The Wild World of Batwoman, Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders and Hobgoblins, and in general there are far worse as well. The best asset of Laserblast is the music score, which pulsates through the movie with great energy and atmosphere that is not matched with the rest of the movie. Cheryl Smith is sweet and sympathetic and Keenan Wynn is appropriately gruff. And I personally though the stop-motion and the aliens were quite good, of any of the movies on the "10 Movies they Riffed" list it is Laserblast that has the best special effects. Everything else comes up painfully short though, Roddy MacDowell is wasted to the point that you question why was he even in it, and Eddie Deezen has to be the most annoying bully ever seen in film. The story is a real drag as well, it makes very little sense if at all, has so much overlong filler that adds nothing to the storytelling and is one of those instances where the plot summary pretty much sums up the whole movie. It also doesn't know what to do with itself and takes forever to get going, it is half-an-hour until anything of the sort happens and then when the gun is found the rest of the movie is just stuff getting shot at. At best, the camera work and editing are haphazard, the dialogue is hysterically bad and the characters are not developed anywhere near enough or characterised very effectively to be believable or likewise. In conclusion, Laserblast is a bad movie that is rather dull and senseless and wastes McDowell but a great score, better-than-average stop-motion and effects and two decent performances make it not as bad as all that. 3/10 Bethany Cox

i must be out of my mind giving this movie a rating a 10 out of 10 stars. people might say that i'm crazy, but i realize why Leonard Maltin decide to give this movie a rating 2 1/2 stars for this movie. it's not really bad at all...the problem with the movie is there is no actual story and reasons to why all the incident happens involving the laser gun. And yet, who the f**k are the aliens???? but to my opinion, are these problems important enough to be questioned?? errr...what i meant is some things should not be taken seriously, it is not important for the director to explain who are the aliens and why the laser gun was left on earth. but the most important thing is how the aliens going to get back the laser back and what will happen if the laser gun falls into the hands of human. this is what the film trying to explain. this is a very simple movie and has couple of action scene which is good. Laserblast is more likely a drama to me, not an action movie.remember, this is no Star Wars, this is just a simple movie about a story about the life of a man who accidentally found the laser gun. Please reconsider this movie again fellas....give it a chance

It's not like anything stands out as truly bad in this movie, it's more so that there is simply absolutely nothing happening in it at all.I can forgive a movie for being bad sometimes, as long as it's entertaining but I can't forgive a movie for being boring and offering me absolutely nothing to enjoy about it.Blame it all on the writing of course. This movie still had the potential in it to be a fun one but the writers obviously had no idea what to with its premise. As a matter of fact, they had a hard time coming up with anything at all, since the movie for most part is just dragging on and filled with some sequences, that in the long run, serve absolutely no purpose for the movie at all.It's really not the worst movie with any of its effects or acting. I mean, it even has Roddy McDowall in it, even though the movie itself can't even spell his name right. The effects are even somewhat good and the movie even had a bit of money to spend it on some decent action.Really not one of the worst movies I have ever seen but it surely is one of the more redundant ones.3/10 http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

Dreadful, just dreadful. My head is so jumbled right now, I don't even know where to start. I guess I'll begin by explaining why I even watched this movie in the first place.After years of being haunted having seen clips of Laserblast as a child and being completely freaked out, I finally tracked down the title and ordered a used copy online. After watching it yesterday, I am equally freaked out as when I was a child. I can honestly say this is one of the three worst films I have ever seen. Nothing gets explained. Why does the salt-shaker make Billy turn green and monstrous? Who is the guy in the Cadillac and how does he know about the aliens? What is the green thing that grows in Billy's chest and what does it have to do with anything? Where does the movie take place? What do the producers have against Star Wars? How come no one seems to miss a beat in their lives after their friends and neighbors get blown-up? And by the way, 90 percent of the killings are via car-explosion. It's like the director had access to a bunch of old junkie cars and thought it would look cool and exciting to blow them up. Honestly, it's that ridiculous.And the acting, I haven't even gotten to the acting. Kim Milford, who plays the main character, didn't exactly take off after his performance, appearing in exactly six more films before his death. "Froggy" the dorky looking nerd who picks on the good-looking Billy (go figure) may have put together the worst performance in cinematic history. Even though he plays a tiny roll, he's noticeably putrid. His real-life name is Eddie Deezen...look him up.The editing and "action" sequences are terrible. In one particular scene, Froggy and his buddy attempt to rape Billy's girlfriend in broad daylight at a pool party with a dozen or so friends waiting in the kitchen. Billy comes to the rescue and fights of the hooligans with a tennis racquet before getting ambushed on the way out. At best, it's an amateurish attempt at a fight scene.