Worst SFX No. 24: The Shape Of Things To Come

Martin Anderson

Published on Jan 6, 2009

Like a lot of people, I tend to say 'That's the worst movie I've ever seen' far too often. I didn't mean it. For the last 29 years, this is the movie I have been talking about. George McCowan's ultra-cheap Star Wars knock-off is the worst film I have ever paid money to see at the cinema. Dreamcatcher was Citizen Kane by comparison, Ghosts Of Mars a luminous masterpiece. Not only does TSoTTC waste (and embarrass) Jack Palance and Barry Morse, not only does it have some of the nastiest special effects in science-fiction cinema, but worse, it has the audacity to build them up: the cloned 'jump to hyperspace' of our heroes' spaceship turns out to be…yet another shot of an accident in an Airfix factory being dangled in front of a black backlit curtain with holes poked out for stars...