The sponsor of the scheduled second film hadn’t arrived, so the show runners swapped the third and second movies. Now the second film was Voyage of the Rock Aliens, which is sort of a mix of those old Avalon / Funnicello beach movies and the Darkness video that also featured space tentacles.
As with Deathstalker II, I thought this was serviceable but not more than that, while many others thought it was great. Well, I’m not going to argue with them. Starring Pia Zadora (!), this shows she might well have flourished more in movies as a singer and light comedienne rather than headlining the sleazy (but to me enjoyable) sex dramas she hang her hat on early in her aborted career. She, again, is fine if not great, but hey, I saw her open for Sinatra once (with Don Rickles the middle act), so you know she can sing some.
The guy behind the tentacle above is B-movie icon Michael Berryman, having the time of his life after his comic psychopath morphs in to a surprisingly subtle and touching romantic hero. I thought he was easily the best thing in the movie.
