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* TheSeventies: This was a time when being fit meant you had to be rail thin. Plenty of 70's music, fashion and cars to go around, too.
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* TheSeventies: The70s: This was a time when being fit meant you had to be rail thin. Plenty of 70's music, fashion and cars to go around, too.
* AmbiguouslyHuman: The previous wielder of the alien gun had green skin and distinctly inhuman facial features... but so does Billy after the gun corrupts him, so it's not clear if that's what he actually looked like or if he was some ''other'' human who somehow got his hands on the weapon.
* HereWeGoAgain: [[spoiler:At the end of the movie, the aliens once again fail to retrieve the weapon, implying that some other poor schmuck is going to stumble across it with similar consequences.]]
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* PoliceAreUseless: The Sheriff's Department here makes [[Series/TheDukesOfHazzard Roscoe and Enos]] look like [[Series/WalkerTexasRanger Walker and Trivette]].
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* PoliceAreUseless: PoliceAreUseless:
** The Sheriff's Department here makes [[Series/TheDukesOfHazzard Roscoe and Enos]] look like [[Series/WalkerTexasRanger Walker and Trivette]].
** The Sheriff's Department here makes [[Series/TheDukesOfHazzard Roscoe and Enos]] look like [[Series/WalkerTexasRanger Walker and Trivette]].
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* RealityHasNoSubtitles: None of the aliens' dialogue is subtitled, though the viewer can usually get the gist of what they're saying based on the context and their tone of voice.
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* NerdyBully: The character Froggy was played by Creator/EddieDeezen as the platonic ideal of a nerd. Both he and the other geek he is a toady for ([[StealthPun get it?]]) constantly taunt and torment the easygoing slacker protagonist. The ''Series/{{MST3K}}'' treatment of the film has the riffers theorize that it takes place in a strange alternate reality where the geeks pick on the cool kids.
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* NerdyBully: The character Froggy was played by Creator/EddieDeezen as the platonic ideal of a nerd. Both he and the other geek he is a toady for ([[StealthPun get it?]]) constantly taunt and torment the easygoing slacker protagonist. The ''Series/{{MST3K}}'' (The ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' treatment of the film has the riffers theorize that it takes place in a strange alternate reality where the geeks pick on the cool kids.)
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* CoolLoser: Billy isn't super cool; he's a bit whiny and he drives a [[TheAllegedCar crummy van]]. But he's a fairly good-looking guy and certainly seems closer to an average guy compared to the spastic nerds who bully him, so it's a bit of a mystery why even Froggy picks on him.
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This was one of the first film scoring assignments for Music/JoelGoldsmith ([[Music/JerryGoldsmith Jerry's]] son), who went on to become the musical voice of ''Series/StargateSG1'' and its spinoffs. Creator/GianniRusso, Creator/RoddyMcDowall, Creator/KeenanWynn, and Creator/EddieDeezen have supporting roles.
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This was one of the first film scoring assignments for Music/JoelGoldsmith ([[Music/JerryGoldsmith Jerry's]] son), who went on to become the musical voice of ''Series/StargateSG1'' and its spinoffs. Cheryl Smith, Creator/GianniRusso, Creator/RoddyMcDowall, Creator/KeenanWynn, and Creator/EddieDeezen have supporting roles.
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This was one of the first film scoring assignments of Music/JoelGoldsmith ([[Music/JerryGoldsmith Jerry's]] son), who went on to become the musical voice of ''Series/StargateSG1'' and its spinoffs. Creator/GianniRusso, Creator/RoddyMcDowall, Creator/KeenanWynn, and Creator/EddieDeezen have supporting roles.
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This was one of the first film scoring assignments of for Music/JoelGoldsmith ([[Music/JerryGoldsmith Jerry's]] son), who went on to become the musical voice of ''Series/StargateSG1'' and its spinoffs. Creator/GianniRusso, Creator/RoddyMcDowall, Creator/KeenanWynn, and Creator/EddieDeezen have supporting roles.
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This was one of the first film scoring assignments of Music/JoelGoldsmith ([[Music/JerryGoldsmith Jerry's]] son), who went on to become the musical voice of ''Series/StargateSG1'' and its spinoffs.
For the ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' episode see ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S07E06Laserblast here]]''.
For the ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' episode see ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S07E06Laserblast here]]''.
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This was one of the first film scoring assignments of Music/JoelGoldsmith ([[Music/JerryGoldsmith Jerry's]] son), who went on to become the musical voice of ''Series/StargateSG1'' and its spinoffs.
spinoffs. Creator/GianniRusso, Creator/RoddyMcDowall, Creator/KeenanWynn, and Creator/EddieDeezen have supporting roles.
For the ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''episode episode, see ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S07E06Laserblast here]]''.here]]''.
For the ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''
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''Laserblast'' is a 1978 low-budget sci-fi movie.
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''Laserblast'' is a 1978 American low-budget sci-fi movie.
movie produced by Charles Band and directed by Michael Rae.
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* HollywoodNerd: A quite bizarre case, as the ''bullies'' are portrayed this way, one of them even being played by consummate Hollywood Nerd actor Creator/EddieDeezen. As Crow says, "It's some parallel world where the spazzes bully the cool guys."
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* NerdyBully: The character Froggy was played by Creator/EddieDeezen as the platonic ideal of a HollywoodNerd.nerd. Both he and the other geek he is a toady for ([[StealthPun get it?]]) constantly taunt and torment the easygoing slacker protagonist. The ''Series/{{MST3K}}'' treatment of the film has the riffers theorize that it takes place in a strange alternate reality where the geeks pick on the cool kids.
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* TakeThat: Billy destroys a ''[[Film/ANewHope Star Wars]]'' "billboard" with his cannon. Thanks to this movie's budget, it's not even an actual billboard -- just a cardboard sign on which someone stenciled the ''Star Wars'' logo. Yeah, this movie '''totally''' gave ''Star Wars'' a run for its money. There's also a throwaway line where a police officer says of a teenager who witnessed Billy's rampage that "he's seen ''Star Wars'' [[SeenStarWarsTwentySevenTimes five times]]." This may be one of the reasons why, for a brief time, people took ''Laserblast'' seriously, compared it to ''Star Wars'', and discussed which film was better and why. Oddly enough, the actor who played Billy Duncan co-starred with Creator/MarkHamill in the film ''Corvette Summer,'' which was released the same year as ''Laserblast''. Hamill considers ''Summer'' to be [[SoBadItsGood exactly]] [[OldShame as good]] as ''Laserblast''.
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* TakeThat: Billy destroys a ''[[Film/ANewHope Star Wars]]'' "billboard" with his cannon. Thanks to this movie's budget, it's not even an actual billboard -- just a cardboard sign on which someone stenciled the ''Star Wars'' logo. Yeah, this movie '''totally''' gave ''Star Wars'' a run for its money. There's also a throwaway line where a police officer says of a teenager who witnessed Billy's rampage that "he's seen ''Star Wars'' [[SeenStarWarsTwentySevenTimes [[SawStarWarsTwentySevenTimes five times]]." This may be one of the reasons why, for a brief time, people took ''Laserblast'' seriously, compared it to ''Star Wars'', and discussed which film was better and why. Oddly enough, the actor who played Billy Duncan co-starred with Creator/MarkHamill in the film ''Corvette Summer,'' which was released the same year as ''Laserblast''. Hamill considers ''Summer'' to be [[SoBadItsGood exactly]] [[OldShame as good]] as ''Laserblast''.
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* TakeThat: Billy destroys a ''[[Film/ANewHope Star Wars]]'' "billboard" with his cannon. Thanks to this movie's budget, it's not even an actual billboard -- just a cardboard sign on which someone stenciled the ''Star Wars'' logo. Yeah, this movie '''totally''' gave ''Star Wars'' a run for its money. This may be one of the reasons why, for a brief time, people took ''Laserblast'' seriously, compared it to ''Star Wars'', and discussed which film was better and why. Oddly enough, the actor who played Billy Duncan co-starred with Creator/MarkHamill in the film ''Corvette Summer,'' which was released the same year as ''Laserblast''. Hamill considers ''Summer'' to be [[SoBadItsGood exactly]] [[OldShame as good]] as ''Laserblast''.
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* TakeThat: Billy destroys a ''[[Film/ANewHope Star Wars]]'' "billboard" with his cannon. Thanks to this movie's budget, it's not even an actual billboard -- just a cardboard sign on which someone stenciled the ''Star Wars'' logo. Yeah, this movie '''totally''' gave ''Star Wars'' a run for its money. There's also a throwaway line where a police officer says of a teenager who witnessed Billy's rampage that "he's seen ''Star Wars'' [[SeenStarWarsTwentySevenTimes five times]]." This may be one of the reasons why, for a brief time, people took ''Laserblast'' seriously, compared it to ''Star Wars'', and discussed which film was better and why. Oddly enough, the actor who played Billy Duncan co-starred with Creator/MarkHamill in the film ''Corvette Summer,'' which was released the same year as ''Laserblast''. Hamill considers ''Summer'' to be [[SoBadItsGood exactly]] [[OldShame as good]] as ''Laserblast''.
