Friday, June 24, 2016

Movie review - "Zeta One" (1969) *

A terrible, terrible movie - someone once called it the worst British film ever made and maybe they had a point. Sure, there's some camp fun with all these naked/near naked women running around but it's an absolute mess - continuity all over the shop, agonisingly long sequences, stunningly unfunny running gag about a secret agent whose moustache keeps falling off, incoherent story, unpleasant sequences of men torturing women.

Some familiar faces pop in and help pass the time - James Robertson Justice, Yuette Stusgaard, Valerie Leon. It sounds as though it's going to be fun - a British Barbarella - but the film screeches to a halt within the first few minutes with a painfully slow strip poker sequence and never recovers. Dreadful.

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