Guess the movie.

It's quite remarkable. Quite, quite remarkable.

I'd never watched the movie, never having liked the "author" of the book it was based upon, or the cult he spawned. I was also aware of the movie's reputation, so this too helped decide me against watching the movie these many years.

But tonight, on ITV, it was broadcast, and having nothing better to do, I decided to watch it in the hope that it might be so bad that it had actually clocked, à la Plan 9 From Outer Space, or indeed anything by Ed Wood, and become a kitsch Sci-Fi classic.

How wrong I was. It is just horrible...

The trouble with free commercial channels is that there is nothing to demand back from them in righteous indignation. An hour was enough; I wasted my money, though it was free.

This whinge is brought to you by Harry R Jump-Jet

Guess the movie.

It's quite remarkable. Quite, quite remarkable.

I'd never watched the movie, never having liked the "author" of the book it was based upon, or the cult he spawned. I was also aware of the movie's reputation, so this too helped decide me against watching the movie these many years.

But tonight, on ITV, it was broadcast, and having nothing better to do, I decided to watch it in the hope that it might be so bad that it had actually clocked, à la Plan 9 From Outer Space, or indeed anything by Ed Wood, and become a kitsch Sci-Fi classic.

How wrong I was. It is just horrible...

The trouble with free commercial channels is that there is nothing to demand back from them in righteous indignation. An hour was enough; I wasted my money, though it was free.

This whinge is brought to you by Harry R Jump-Jet

Edited geekdom

Er...

Apologies to those who have a more stringent definition to the concept of spoiler than I do. I have just been told off in the nicest possible way by jfs because of that. So, apologies all round - don't go beyond the cut if you don't want to know, but no plot points are given away, just a single line of script.

( Precautionary spoiler cut here )

Edited geekdom

Er...

Apologies to those who have a more stringent definition to the concept of spoiler than I do. I have just been told off in the nicest possible way by jfs because of that. So, apologies all round - don't go beyond the cut if you don't want to know, but no plot points are given away, just a single line of script.

( Precautionary spoiler cut here )