Saturn 3
What’s worse than an eight foot tall robot with razor sharp pincer fingers and a penchant for beautiful women and murder? Nothing. Nothing is worse. Which is why Saturn 3 is so brilliant. There is a killer cast here: Kirk Douglas, Farrah Fawcett, Harvey Keitel and of course, the robot named Hector. The locale is incredible: somewhat claustrophobic halls and labs of a base carved into the surface of one of Saturn’s moons. The atmosphere is creepy, silly and questionable, making this one of the most interesting films I’ve seen in the past few months. Certainly, I expected something far worse, more in line with a b-movie than anything else. Saturn 3 delivers production value that would make those films jealous. Indeed, it may have had a small budget (I’m not sure if it did or not) but chose to wisely focus the film on three characters and good set design. Saturn 3 is a remote installation billions – yes billions – of kilometres away from Earth: it should feel a bit different. The base is occupied by two people…