#Time Walker

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Time Walker (1982)

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Chris: Catching up on my Svengoolie horror hosted recorded films, this mummy film was pretty bad and boring, Avoid.

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I Walk The Earth

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Monday night’s experiment:  MST3K - Being From Another Planet!

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Time Walker (1982)

“Nothing can stop him, not even time.”

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Time Walker Soundtrack CD

Time Walker Soundtrack by Richard Band - CD Release #TimeWalker #ost #soundtrack

Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (CD Release) for the sci-fi film Time Walker (1982). The music was composed by Richard Band (Unlucky Charms, Mutant, Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype).

Source: Time Walker Movie Genre: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Music by Richard Band Label: Dragon’s Domain Records Format: CD Release Date: February 7, 2020

Time Walker (also known as Being from Another Planet) is a…

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Eddie Redmayne and Rami Malek, photographed by Tim Walker for W Magazine, Vol #9 2019.

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Time Walker (1982)

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Time Walker aka Being from Another Planet

I mentioned the other day that I had just received a batch of new Mystery Science Theater 3000 DVDs, so let’s have a little glimpse of one or two of the films in that lot.  This is a 1982 film that tries to do something very different with the old Mummy set-up, by adding in some sci-fi elements.  However, all this means that one bunch of cliches ends up rubbing against another bunch of cliches.  This does have a few cool ideas, like how this re-animated alien (re-alienated?) is covered with this flesh eating fungus, but it doesn’t really affect the plot a great deal, they could have played with the idea of an epidemic say, which would have added a sense of urgency.  As it is though, there’s not much to say about it overall as it’s pretty damn dull, and feels very cheap (the final look of the alien at the end is a mask so fake looking even Doctor Who at the time would have balked at using it!).  The most fun you can have is a game of “oh, it’s that guy!”  with the cast, like noticing James Karen from The Return of the Living Dead as the dean, or that there’s an Assault on Precinct 13 reunion with Austin Stoker and Darwin Joston, the two leads from it, in here.  Fun trivia piece I discovered while reading up on this; the producer of the film, as well co-story-writer is Jason Williams, who among other things played the titular character in Flesh Gordon. Man, that’s one I’ve been pondering featuring on here for quite a while, as that genre is a world this blog isn’t quite ready for yet.  I digress though; this movie isn’t very good, deserved the riffs.  The MST3K DVD does have the original version on it... though why exactly would one bother, I don’t know.

BONUS: Video dealers’ trailer.

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I saw:

The Mystery Science Theater 3000 version of Being From Another Planet (aka Time Walker) - Thanks to an earthquake a secret room gets found in King Tut’s tomb, and since one of the two guys there at the time was an American university professor he gets to keep the sarcophagus as a prize. Which is extra weird since I thought by the early 1980s the rules about antiquities would have already been well established. Anyway, he gets to bring the never before opened mummy home to his university for keeps, open it for the very first time in a standard classroom with students as an audience, then has it x-rayed by a dumb nut of a student that turns the machine all the way up to 11 to do it. Since the professor’s girlfriend is also one of his students I shouldn’t be surprised he doesn’t worry about ethics. X-Ray boy discovers there is a secret compartment, so he steals the crystals hidden there and covers his tracks. Unable to sell them elsewhere he unloads them on classmates. Now I don’t know about you, but if a gem I’m wearing starts glowing like a searchlight I’m taking it off right then, but it doesn’t work that way for these folks. Quickly they discover a green fungus on the sarcophagus is deadly and, OMG...the mummy is gone!  It’s just the mummy is an alien, and he needs his crystals back, but oops his touch is deadly. Can the poor alien get away from the nightmares of a college campus or should he just give up and see if there is space for him in the dorms? Then again, I don’t think those crystals would cover a semester’s tuition. Nah, better call home. “Get me outta here!!”

The movie is quite weak, but the gags are fun. Amazingly there was a riff about Video Watchdog magazine, and here I was watching it on the day the end of the magazine was announced. My favorite bit wasn’t from the cracks during the movie but the “invention exchange” segment. The Mads intoduced a line of demented “Precious Moments” figures and I loved that sooo much. I dunno if they still make those sappy things, but they were very popular for a while. One uncle had a wife that gave those things, these “cute” kids in pastal colors, for every gift giving excuse. When I graduated from high school I didn’t really get much in the way of gifts (though a cousin promised to make me a quilt....I’m still waiting! LOL) but I got a couple of those damn figures. It’s the thought that counts...but oooh, they are so not me. But the Mads’ versions....yeah, kids watching the house they accidentally set fire to buring to the ground, now THAT I liked! Joel and the bots’ “invention” involving a voice changer to sound like Jack Palance amused me too. But really, can anything beat watching one of those so cute widdle figurine kids about to be hit by a car? Yes, yes I do have a sick sense of humor sometimes! LOL