Coming off the delirious high that was Starcrash I decided this week I would stay with low budget films but would make a dramatic shift from lightsabers and Hasselhoff to quiet sleepy towns and zombies.

Mmmm … zombies.

So next week’s film is the underground (pun intended) 1981 cult hit, Dead and Buried.

Normally I would have a long and completely unnecessary introduction before I dive into one of my reviews. I do this for several reasons, as primarily it provides me with an opportunity to write about whatever I choose and then hopefully find a novel way of tying it to the movie I watched and am reviewing. I like to think of it as flexing my creative muscles, but Anna pretty much thinks it is me showing off.

The other reason I write my reviews this way is because I want to use a style that is different then anything else you might have read. My experiences tie heavily into how I view a film, and by providing you the reader with insight into them it is my hope that it present you with a unique opportunity to see just what makes my brain tick. Or maybe not. It isn’t much more then a theory at this point.

But Starcrash is an entirely different animal then most of the other films I have watched for this site. For one, it stars David Hasselhoff, a man who I am powerless to resist. His very presence turns even the worst film or television show into an irresistible elixir. I knew going in to this screening there was no way I could ever hate this film, but what I was not expecting to endure what I could only describe as an utterly transcendent experience.

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Part of the reason why I started this site was not only to search out smaller and unknown art films, but to watch some fairly unknown crappy films as well. With my recent run of slightly high-brow fair I felt it was time to change pace a bit and given in to my most base instincts. That usually means terrible science fiction films.

So next weeks review will focus on Starcrash, the 1979 Italian space epic starring Christopher Plummer. Yes, that Christopher Plummer.  It also co-stars David Hasselhoff. Yup, The Hoff pre-drunken home videos, pre-naked photo shoots drapped in puppies, and pre-Knight Rider.

But is it from a time when he Hoff was pre-awesome? Only time will tell.