Pietro Francisci's "Star Pilot (2+5: Missione Hydra)" Blu-ray - Leonora Ruffo / Leontine Snell @rarovideousa @KinoLorber (Patreon)

Pietro Francisci's "Star Pilot (2+5: Missione Hydra)" Blu-ray - Leonora Ruffo / Leontine Snell @rarovideousa @KinoLorber

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OUR REVIEW:

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film11/blu-ray_review_174/star_pilot_blu-ray.htm

A kitschy sci-fi extravaganza recently restored in 4K, Star Pilot (2+5 Missione Hydra, 1966) is a wildly colorful adventure through the vastness of space. Aliens from the constellation Hydra crash-land on the island of Sardinia. A prominent scientist, his daughter, several young technicians, and a pair of spies are taken hostage by the beings so they can use them to repair their spaceship’s broken engine. With that done, they take off towards their home planet, taking the Earthlings with them. However, the humans attempt to mutiny against their captors, inadvertently sending their tiny spaceship hurtling into the infinite beyond.

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Pietro Francisci's Star Pilot (2+5 Missione Hydra) is reminiscent of Planet of the Vampires, Wild Wild Planet and The Green Slime - having tremendous 'camp' value (look at the gal's costumes.) In an inside joke; Leonora Ruffo (Hercules vs. the Vampires), playing a stoic alien beauty,  who was also in a number of fotoromanzi (Photo comics) has Leontine Snell's character, Luisa, sexily prancing around, defending them positively. Star Pilot moves at a brisk pace and is an ambitious science fiction tropes with aliens visiting earth, brief humanoid creatures, hints at an ecological catastrophe, and a new evolution of the species with its own awakened monolith. Some of the stock special-effects footage was from Japanese Toho Studio's Invasion of Astro-Monster and others. Wikipedia cites that "The English dub included references to "Star Fleet", "Star Fleet Command", "Warp Speed", and "Impulse Drive", as used in the Star Trek television series." I found it humorous that most reviewers have failed to identify the satire, which can totally shift the opinion of Star Pilot's entertainment value. I loved my viewing and am very happy with the Raro Video Blu-ray a/v and commentary. To each his own but this is a definite 'keeper' for me.