DEATHSPORT still one of my sci-fi faves

Roger Corman was and still is the master of entertaining, visually evocative, science-fiction/horror/science-fiction-horror-hybrid. Among his better cult classic favorites is DEATHSPORT.

I have a certain nostalgia for DEATHSPORT. I remember way back in my old college days, during mid-autumn semester break, when everyone had gone home and my dormitory was 99% empty, sometimes an eerie feeling to be alone so late at night in the television room, watching Deathsport. This was the late, late night show at 1:00 am. The television station would show 5 minutes or so of the movie then go to a 10 minute commercial break. So it took a while to watch the movie. But I was in no hurry. I had the dorm tv room all to myself and I just lounged in front of the big 30-inch color television screen, taking up two chairs. For some reason that night, all alone in a deathly quiet men's dormitory, which would normally be alive and noisy with the presence of so many young male college students, quietly sitting alone in the tv room watching Deathsport, has remained in my memory after all these many years.

The characters in Deathsport were delightfully campy in a most entertaining way and made the movie more fun to watch. There are times I wish I was a full-time employee of the Roger Corman film company.