A
neglected wife chastises her husband for reading too many sci-fi magazines
before bed until he finally puts the books down and gives it to her good. After she falls asleep, he grabs a magazine
and imagines himself as the captain of a spaceship. He winds up adrift in space and is taken in
by an alien vessel populated mostly by sexy women. They promptly throw him in the brig, but by
using visibility pills, he spies on them to study their lovemaking habits. Eventually, he gets in on the action himself.
The
opening scene with the husband and wife goes on forever, but it’s not without
its charms. In fact, it takes such a
long time for the opening credits to pop up that it makes me think this scene
was added to the picture in post-production to pad out the running time. (It would be only an hour long without this
sequence.) The credits sequence is very ‘60s
as the titles are nothing more than nude women posing with the (fake) names of
the cast and crew painted onto their naked frames.
The
direction by Byron (She Freak) Mabe is just inept enough to border on brilliance. His use of jump cuts and continuity errors, along
with the awkward line readings by the cast, and the snazzy sets and funny
costumes makes for an entertaining romp.
What’s most important is that despite the technical limitations of the
production, he still manages to deliver some steamy softcore action. The highlight comes when Captain Mother (Cara
Peters) makes like an out of this world dominatrix and whips a naughty crew
member (Merci Montello) for having sex with a man.
Once
the crew lands on a mysterious planet, the fun begins to dry up. That’s mostly due to the fact that a lot of precious
screen time is spent on them endlessly wandering around and scoping out the
planet’s surface. The ending,
unfortunately, sucks too. Luckily, there’s
still enough steamy sex scenes in the third act (including a great lesbian oil
massage scene) to make it all worthwhile.
As a bonus, all of them take place outdoors in broad daylight, which
adds to the fun. Even though it gets
spottier as it goes along, Space Thing gives you enough sexy sci-fi silliness
to keep you engaged.
AKA: Erotic Space Thing. AKA:
Erotic Space Women.
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