Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn (1983)

Directed by

Charles Band

Genre

adventure film, science fiction film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 24m

Rated

PG

Rating

4.6 of 10 from 43 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A space ranger tracks a criminal with supernatural powers to a desert planet. He must stop the criminal from using a group of nomadic humanoids to start a holy war against human miners.

pulpyfast-pacedcampylow-budgetcheesyretrovisually dated

What happens

Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn is a 1983 science fiction film starring Jeffrey Byron, Michael Preston, Tim Thomerson, Kelly Preston and Richard Moll. It was directed and produced by Charles Band. The story is a space-age Western which combines themes of esoteric sorcery and high technology. Metalstorm was filmed in 3D. The movie portrays the story of a space ranger named Dogen (played by Jeffrey Byron), who is in search of an intergalactic criminal with supernatural powers named Jared-Syn (played by Michael Preston). He has tracked this individual to a desert planet called Lemuria. The planet's human population lives in scattered mining towns, gathering valuable crystals which seem to be the basis for their technology and economy. Syn has posed as the leader of a strange group of nomadic humanoids called the "One Eyes" – so named because they symbolically gouge out one of their eyes – who are descendants of a vanished culture called the Cyclopians. The territorial nomads have begun a holy war to drive the human miners from their lands. Syn has instigated this crusade, but Dogen knows that Syn's plan is really to enslave them all and seeks to stop him at all cost. Syn equips his nomads with strange red crystals that drain the life out of touched victims. Dogen searches Lemuria's wastelands for Syn's camp, traveling in an armored vehicle. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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