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The New Barbarians
Why this pick
Matches Metalstorm’s rough-edged 1980s wasteland energy: armored road battles, flamboyant villains, practical destruction, and a cheerfully pulpy futuristic frontier.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE1983 1h 24m USA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
Why this pick
A close tonal companion: a lone adventurer crosses a strange, hostile world full of scavengers, ramshackle technology, perilous set pieces, and vintage sci-fi spectacle.
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The Warrior and the Sorceress
Why this pick
Its dusty otherworldly setting, lone-gunslinger hero, mutant adversaries, and stripped-down quest structure echo Metalstorm’s sci-fi-western pulp sensibility.
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Battle Beyond the Stars
Why this pick
Offers similarly handmade space-opera exuberance, eccentric alien designs, bold miniature effects, and an earnest adventure built around a small band facing a ruthless tyrant.
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Dune
Why this pick
For Metalstorm’s desert-world atmosphere and mystical villainy, this delivers a much grander but comparably stylized vision of hostile terrain, prophecy, and bizarre futuristic imagery.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
A "skybike", a one-man, open-cockpit flying machine, attacks Dogen. Dogen shoots it down and finds one of Syn's crystals on the pilot's body. Carved into the crystal is a symbol of a dead tree. Dogen finds a murdered prospector, whose young daughter Dhyana saw him killed by Baal, Jared Syn's half-cyborg son. Baal sprayed the man with a green liquid that caused a nightmare dream-state, in which Syn appeared and executed him with a crystal. Dogen convinces Dhyana to help him find Syn.
02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Tim Thomerson
Rhodes
R. David Smith
Baal
Marty Zagon
Zax
Mickey Fox
Poker Annie
Jeffrey Byron
Dogen
William Jones
Baal's Lieutenant
Michael Preston
Jared-Syn
Kelly Preston
Dhyana