You can see this film in its entirety (though in 9 segments of 9:59 each) at Youtube.com. Simply enter (as written here) Roger Corman Fantastic Four in the search and knock yourself out. It's mental clobberin' time! As for me, I commented there thusly (unabridged version below):
It has everything you would expect from a superhero film produced by B-movie master Roger Corman, the man who introduced moviegoers to man-eating talking plants, psychotic beatnick artists, Lee Van Cleef vs. a Space Carrot Alien, and Jack Nicholson. It was made to be enjoyed with popcorn, Goobers, and Coca-Cola, and not taken seriously. Cheesy good fun from the celluloid cheese-meister that views the way a 60s Fantastic Four comic reads. And really, the Thing looks pretty good, more formidable than the new version's Thing, who looks more like a steroid-enhanced burn victim. Three stars.
And so it goes. It's worth viewing by any comic devotee for its sheer curiosity value.
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DaveOctopus
17 years ago
It's funny that they say never released, but I remember watching it when I was young and seeing it in many video stores, unless there all buying bootlegs too lol. I remembered it being cheesy but it's pretty vague to me now. Probably just as good as the new one would be if they didn't have todays effects.
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gorebagkiller
17 years ago
theres no way you have seen it back then davehaddad. The leaked copy of it was not available until 1997, that was when it first started turning up and the chances a video store actually renting out a bootleg copy of a purposefully unreleased film is not possible. No video store owner would risk his lively hood because it was already known to be a bootleg publicly and if it came back to the video store they would have been sued for millions. Actually, if thatdid happen, then maybe they could have afforded to release the film. It could have sold well, little kids were superhero crazy then.
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DaveOctopus
16 years ago
All I can tell ya is that I watched it a long time ago on VHS, rented from the video store, way before the DVD renting days, they had some laser disks at the time. So maybe it wasn't 94 but I know it wasn't 98 I moved from there in 97 so... I don't even care anyways its a movie.
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Angelsin
17 years ago
YouTube pulled it. Anybody know any other place where we can find this treasure?
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Newz_Dawg
17 years ago
What really ticks me is that Stan Lee lavished huge praise for the very silly Japanese Spider-Man TV show, with its giant monsters and robots, and Spider-Man telepathically communicating with his mentor who has become a spider, while dissing the Corman-produced Fantastic Four. Cheese is cheese, no matter what nation it comes from. Looks like Stan the Man, who's ego has outgrown Jim Shooter's, needs to meet Doc Samson for a few sessions.
"I hate people I don't like."
Newz Dawg
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lehuis
17 years ago
I have a bootleg DVD copy..I boought it off ebay a couple of years ago for $6.00.
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germite
16 years ago
I picked up a DVD copy a little while ago and watched it once. It's been sitting in my closet ever since.
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Astrolupine
16 years ago
I bought a copy at a comic con 3 years ago...for $20. Yes, you heard that right, but that was the price of all the bootleg DVDs there being sold, and I was desperate to see this film in all its cheesy glory. (The other bootlegs I have are Batman: Dead End, Star Wars Holiday Special and Harvey Birdman Season 1) I've watched it a couple of times and all I can say that's its decent, with a good-looking Thing, Rebecca Stabb as Sue and a Doom that resembles the comic version better than Julian McMahon did.
There's so much pressure to like monkeys.
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