Flesh Gordon

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“The Space Age Sex Spoof that is out of this world!” The nasty Emperor Wang the Perverted, ruler of the planet Porno, aims his deadly “sex ray” at Earth, threating to throw our planet into carnal chaos.  Now it’s up to dim-witted but heroic football player Flesh Gordon (Jason Williams) and his pals Dale Ardor and Dr. Flexi Jerkoff to travel into space and save Earth from certain devastation, facing such incredible dangers as metallic Beetlemen, topless vampires, and a large one-eyed penisauraus along the way.   A campy, low-budget, softcore spoof of the sci-fi films of yesteryear featuring dumb jokes, crazy costumes and great stop-motion creature effects that could have ONLY escaped from the 1970s, Flesh Gordon is a goofy good-time that’s NOT to be confused with the original Flash Gordon … as if that were actually possible! (Dir. by Michael Benveniste & Howard Ziehm, 1974, USA, 78 mins., Rated R)