Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity
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Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity is a 1987 film that transports “The Most Dangerous Game
” to an alien world and populates it with bikini-clad space prison escapees and weird space monsters.
The ship mysteriously malfunctions and the girls crash land on a nearby habitable world where they become the guests of Zed, a man with a scarred face who lives in a large fortress. He is the planet’s sole sentient inhabitant and is guarded by two robots who also act as the fortress' keepers.
Given new clothes, the girls are invited to join Zed for an evening meal at his table. At dinner, the two girls meet two other survivors from another crash-landing who are also Zed’s guests, Rik and his sister Shala. They warn the girls that something’s not right about Zed and that members of their party who had also survived the other crash have already disappeared.
The guests are monitored through the night by the two robots, who perform periodic bed checks on the guests. Rik sneaks out of his room and into Daria's bedroom to warn her of the danger. As they're talking, a robot comes down the hall towards the bedroom. Daria quickly throws Rik onto her bed and strips off her gown. As the robot observes the two guests, Daria pretends to make love to Rik so as to not raise any suspicion of Rik's real reason for being in her room. As the robot analyzes the situation, Daria is forced to continue her fake lovemaking; except that Rik decides to quit faking. Eventually the robot leaves as Rik finishes. Daria, who had been faking all along, then convinces an exhausted Rik that they should conduct a search of the fortress.
A late night visit to Zed’s secret trophy room reveals all. The walls are lined with the heads of dozens of Zed’s previous guests whom he hunted for sport.
The next morning, Rik disappears and becomes Zed's prize. Shala is seized and stripped by Zed and the robots. Daria and Tisa attempt to escape and are captured. Shala, now dressed in a leather bikini like the other two girls, is chained to a column with Daria and Tisa where they are told the rules of the hunt. The trio is then turned loose by Zed, to be hunted as game.
theatrically in the United States
by the Charles Band funded Urban Classics in September 1987.
The film was released on DVD
in the United States
by Cult Video, a subsidiary of Full Moon Entertainment, in 1999.
, drama
, and comedy
, and features partial female nudity, restraint
, simulated sex
, and mild violence
. The film is intended to be a B-movie
mainstream film, despite its low production budget. However, the scene depicting Daria and Rik engaged in passionate lovemaking, with some female nudity (although no genitalia is shown) as part of the character development
process prior to Rik's disappearance is intentionally done for comedic value in the same style as some soft porn scenes in other movies.
Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity was specifically criticized on the floor of the U.S. Senate by Jesse Helms
(R-North Carolina) in 1992.
Senator Helms cited a case in which some of his constituents had accidentally stumbled onto the movie while flipping through cable channels as justification for amendments to the Cable Act of 1992. Helms wanted to force cable operators to block “indecent” programming unless customers specifically asked for it in writing.
The amendment was struck down by a U.S, Federal Court in 1993 and the decision was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1996.
The Most Dangerous Game
"The Most Dangerous Game", also published as "The Hounds of Zaroff", is a short story by Richard Connell. It was published in Collier's Weekly on January 19, 1924....
” to an alien world and populates it with bikini-clad space prison escapees and weird space monsters.
Plot
Daria and Tisa, two nubile female prisoners, clad only in rough-cut rabbit skin bikinis, break out of their cell in a space gulag, overpower their guards, and escape in a shuttlecraft.The ship mysteriously malfunctions and the girls crash land on a nearby habitable world where they become the guests of Zed, a man with a scarred face who lives in a large fortress. He is the planet’s sole sentient inhabitant and is guarded by two robots who also act as the fortress' keepers.
Given new clothes, the girls are invited to join Zed for an evening meal at his table. At dinner, the two girls meet two other survivors from another crash-landing who are also Zed’s guests, Rik and his sister Shala. They warn the girls that something’s not right about Zed and that members of their party who had also survived the other crash have already disappeared.
The guests are monitored through the night by the two robots, who perform periodic bed checks on the guests. Rik sneaks out of his room and into Daria's bedroom to warn her of the danger. As they're talking, a robot comes down the hall towards the bedroom. Daria quickly throws Rik onto her bed and strips off her gown. As the robot observes the two guests, Daria pretends to make love to Rik so as to not raise any suspicion of Rik's real reason for being in her room. As the robot analyzes the situation, Daria is forced to continue her fake lovemaking; except that Rik decides to quit faking. Eventually the robot leaves as Rik finishes. Daria, who had been faking all along, then convinces an exhausted Rik that they should conduct a search of the fortress.
A late night visit to Zed’s secret trophy room reveals all. The walls are lined with the heads of dozens of Zed’s previous guests whom he hunted for sport.
The next morning, Rik disappears and becomes Zed's prize. Shala is seized and stripped by Zed and the robots. Daria and Tisa attempt to escape and are captured. Shala, now dressed in a leather bikini like the other two girls, is chained to a column with Daria and Tisa where they are told the rules of the hunt. The trio is then turned loose by Zed, to be hunted as game.
Cast
- Elizabeth KaitanElizabeth Kaitan-Career:Elizabeth Kaitan was a model for the Bonnie Kay Agency in New York City in the early 1980s. Kaitan is perhaps best known for her roles in movies such as Savage Dawn , Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 as Jennifer, Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood as Robin, and in Vice Academy Parts...
as Daria, a space prison escapee and impromptu leader - Cindy Beal as Tisa. A space prison escapee subordinate to Daria
- Don Scribner as Zed, the hunter
- Brinke StevensBrinke StevensBrinke Stevens is an American actress, model and writer.-Life and career:Born in San Diego, California, Stevens has studied several foreign languages, including Esperanto, and gained a Bachelor of Science in Biology and Psychology from San Diego State University and a Master of Science in Marine...
as Shala, a castaway who becomes hunted with Daria and Tisa - Carl Horner as Rik, a castaway with a large hunting knifeHunting knifeA hunting knife is a knife used during hunting for preparing the game to be used as food: skinning the animal and cutting up the meat. It is different from the Hunting dagger which was traditionally used to kill wild game....
- Kirk Graves as Vak, a robot
- Randoph Roehbling as Krel, a robot
- Fred Tate as Alien Mutant, a hunchbacked alien with a laser rifle for an arm
Release
The film was given a limited releaseLimited release
Limited release is a term in the American motion picture industry for a motion picture that is playing in a select few theaters across the country ....
theatrically in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
by the Charles Band funded Urban Classics in September 1987.
The film was released on DVD
DVD
A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....
in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
by Cult Video, a subsidiary of Full Moon Entertainment, in 1999.
Controversy
The movie is a mix of actionAction film
Action film is a film genre where one or more heroes is thrust into a series of challenges that require physical feats, extended fights and frenetic chases...
, drama
Drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...
, and comedy
Comedy
Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...
, and features partial female nudity, restraint
Restraint
Restraint may refer to:* A personal virtue. See self control.* Physical restraint, the practice of rendering people helpless or keeping them in captivity by means such as handcuffs, ropes, straps, etc....
, simulated sex
Sex
In biology, sex is a process of combining and mixing genetic traits, often resulting in the specialization of organisms into a male or female variety . Sexual reproduction involves combining specialized cells to form offspring that inherit traits from both parents...
, and mild violence
Violence
Violence is the use of physical force to apply a state to others contrary to their wishes. violence, while often a stand-alone issue, is often the culmination of other kinds of conflict, e.g...
. The film is intended to be a B-movie
B-movie
A B movie is a low-budget commercial motion picture that is not definitively an arthouse or pornographic film. In its original usage, during the Golden Age of Hollywood, the term more precisely identified a film intended for distribution as the less-publicized, bottom half of a double feature....
mainstream film, despite its low production budget. However, the scene depicting Daria and Rik engaged in passionate lovemaking, with some female nudity (although no genitalia is shown) as part of the character development
Character development
Character development may refer to:* The change in characterization of a dynamic character, who changes over the course of a narrative.* Character creation, especially for games...
process prior to Rik's disappearance is intentionally done for comedic value in the same style as some soft porn scenes in other movies.
Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity was specifically criticized on the floor of the U.S. Senate by Jesse Helms
Jesse Helms
Jesse Alexander Helms, Jr. was a five-term Republican United States Senator from North Carolina who served as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 1995 to 2001...
(R-North Carolina) in 1992.
Senator Helms cited a case in which some of his constituents had accidentally stumbled onto the movie while flipping through cable channels as justification for amendments to the Cable Act of 1992. Helms wanted to force cable operators to block “indecent” programming unless customers specifically asked for it in writing.
The amendment was struck down by a U.S, Federal Court in 1993 and the decision was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1996.
Trivia
- One of several films inspired by the serial short story The Most Dangerous GameThe Most Dangerous Game"The Most Dangerous Game", also published as "The Hounds of Zaroff", is a short story by Richard Connell. It was published in Collier's Weekly on January 19, 1924....
by Richard ConnellRichard ConnellRichard Edward Connell Jr. was an American author and journalist, probably best remembered for his short story "The Most Dangerous Game". Connell was one of the most popular American short story writers of his time and his stories appeared in the Saturday Evening Post and Collier's Weekly...
. - Elizabeth KaitanElizabeth Kaitan-Career:Elizabeth Kaitan was a model for the Bonnie Kay Agency in New York City in the early 1980s. Kaitan is perhaps best known for her roles in movies such as Savage Dawn , Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 as Jennifer, Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood as Robin, and in Vice Academy Parts...
, who plays a convict, would retire from showbusiness and marry a law enforcement officer. - Brinke StevensBrinke StevensBrinke Stevens is an American actress, model and writer.-Life and career:Born in San Diego, California, Stevens has studied several foreign languages, including Esperanto, and gained a Bachelor of Science in Biology and Psychology from San Diego State University and a Master of Science in Marine...
has a Master of Science Degree in Marine BiologyMarine biologyMarine biology is the scientific study of organisms in the ocean or other marine or brackish bodies of water. Given that in biology many phyla, families and genera have some species that live in the sea and others that live on land, marine biology classifies species based on the environment rather...
and was working as a scientist studying dolphin research before becoming a professional modelModel (person)A model , sometimes called a mannequin, is a person who is employed to display, advertise and promote commercial products or to serve as a subject of works of art....
and actress. She has since made a lengthy career as an actress in B-movieB-movieA B movie is a low-budget commercial motion picture that is not definitively an arthouse or pornographic film. In its original usage, during the Golden Age of Hollywood, the term more precisely identified a film intended for distribution as the less-publicized, bottom half of a double feature....
films and comics and is frequently booked for conventions.