Laser Blast Film Society: ABRAXAS, GUARDIAN OF THE UNIVERSE
The Royal Cinema
608 College St
Toronto
ON
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WITNESS TWO INTERSTELLAR SPACE-COPS SQUARE OFF IN A WINTERY SMALL-TOWN CANADIAN WONDERLAND ON 35mm AND WITH WRITER/DIRECTOR DAMIAN LEE IN ATTENDANCE!
ABRAXAS: GUARDIAN OF THE UNIVERSEDirector: Damian LeeCast: Jesse Ventura, Sven-Ole Thorsen, Damian Lee, Marjorie Bransfield, Francis Mitchell & Jim Belushi.90 min
Pre-Show: 7:30 PMFeature: 8:00 PM
"An unabashed Terminator rip-off...that just clicks as entertainment." - Paul Corupe, Canuxsploitation"Silly in every way imaginable." - Comeuppance Reviews
The Laser Blast Film Society invites you to traverse time and space with the 38th Governor of Minnesota (Jesse Ventura) as he pursues Arnold Schwarzenegger's best bud (Sven-Ole Thorsen) across two galaxies to a sleepy wintery hamlet on Earth in order to prevent him from solving the "Anti-Life Equation". Despite rifing largely on the structure of The Terminator, writer/director Damian Lee conjures an imaginative mythology anchored by a wonderful sc-fi vernacular that teeters between camp and cool as it coins badass names like Secundus, Tyrannus 7, and THE CULMATOR. That it also features a virgin birth, a child-god and intergalactic "wise-men" that travel afar during the holiday season, also make it a Canadian Christmas classic in our books! Such eccentricity is further seasoned with a healthy helping of sparkling pyrotechnics and burly stuntwork, not to mention a cameo of the Belush himself as a disgruntled school principal! And all of this entertaining madness will be beamed straight to your eyeballs from a rare 35mm print!