24 Facts About Laserblast

The alien spacecraft model featured in Laserblast was designed and built by Greg Jein in two weeks, and the musical score was written in five days by Joel Goldsmith and Richard Band, the first film score for both composers.

Laserblast has received overwhelmingly negative reviews and consistently ranks among the Bottom 100 list of films on the Internet Movie Database.

Laserblast was featured in the seventh season finale of the comedy television series Mystery Science Theater 3000, marking the show's final episode on Comedy Central before the series moved to the Sci-Fi Channel.

Laserblast goes outside to find his mother has been invited to a trip to Acapulco and, despite her son's protests, she leaves her son behind.

Laserblast starts playing with the cannon, making "pow, pow, pow" noises and pretending to shoot things.

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Laserblast calls the police laboratory technician Mike London to arrange for the disc to be investigated.

Laserblast was produced by Charles Band, who is widely known as a writer, producer, and director of B movies.

Band wanted Laserblast to be a "mini-Star Wars", and at one point in the film, a disparaging reference is made when Billy fires his laser gun at a Star Wars billboard, resulting in a tremendous explosion.

Laserblast was directed by Michael Rae, marking his only directorial credit.

Jein had recently completed his work on the Close Encounters of the Third Kind when Allen approached him to work on Laserblast, which was the first time that Jein designed a project himself.

Laserblast prepared several concept sketches and, after one was selected, he constructed the 18-inch model in two weeks.

Allen ultimately felt his animation sequences in Laserblast were not properly integrated with the rest of the film.

The alien language chatter between the aliens in Laserblast was later used for sound effects in the metal band Static-X's song "A Dios Alma Perdida", which is featured in their 2001 album Machine.

Laserblast was advertised in conjunction with End of the World, which had been released the previous year and was still playing in theaters at the time.

At the time that Laserblast was released, audience interest in science fiction films was particularly high due to the release of Star Wars and the long wait until the release of its sequels The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.

Laserblast has received largely negative reviews, and consistently ranks among the Bottom 100 list of films on the Internet Movie Database.

Laserblast was among several films universally considered terrible that film reviewer Michael Adams watched as part of a book about his quest to find the worst film of all time.

Monthly Film Bulletin said that Laserblast was "Band's first major box-office success on the exploitation circuit".

Laserblast said that the film would have been made differently and would have had less critical reactions if it had been produced with a larger budget.

Laserblast was initially released on home video in 1981 from Media Home Entertainment.

Laserblast was released on DVD on July 6,1999, again by Full Moon Entertainment.

However, the premise and elements of the abandoned sequel were later used in the 1988 Charles Band film Deadly Weapon, which, like Laserblast, was about a bullied teenager who finds a powerful weapon and uses it to seek revenge against his enemies.

Laserblast was featured in the seventh-season finale episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000, a comedy television series.

Laserblast was the sixth episode of the seventh season, which was broadcast on Comedy Central May 18,1996.