Laserblast

Hot on the heels of Star Wars came a serious influx of terrible, charmless, superbly cheesy sci-fi films. Some were sexploitation films, like the Dorothy Stratton vehicle, Galaxina. Others, like Laserblast, excluded sex. In fact, Laserblast excludes almost anything pleasurable. A team of lizard bounty hunters kill an escapee in the California desert, leaving behind a strange grenade-like (if only it WAS a grenade) pendant and a laser cannon (GET IT...LASER-BLAST?!?). The whiniest teen in America finds it, turns into a zombie upon using said cannon, and subsequently seeks revenge on all of his enemies. Once lampooned by MST3K, Laserblast is what Mark Hamill's Corvette Summer should have been. I would watch them back-to-back...if I felt supremely bored. Now that the holidays are officially flushed down the crapper, you've got plenty of time to enjoy them.