Cave Women on Mars

The year is 1987: mankind has conquered space, launching the first manned mission to Mars. On reaching the red planet, the two man crew-Captain Jackson (Josh Craig) and Lieutenant Elliot (Daniel Sjerven)-encounter two tribes of warrior women, neither of which hold men in very high regard.

Writer/director Christopher R. Mihm's Cave Women On Mars is a low-budget homage to z-grade sci-fi trash of the 1950s, and in that it largely succeeds, meaning that it too is hard to sit through in its entirety. Mihm is clearly a man who knows his stuff, effectively replicating the mundanity of many a '50s clunker, but quite why anyone would choose to painstakingly ape some of the worst films that genre and era had to offer doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me: the real McCoy is bad enough, let alone a modern day mimic.

4/10-I would have liked to have seen more tongue-in-cheek humour (but a little less of the Shatnerisms).