{"id":27002,"date":"2019-02-10T08:52:50","date_gmt":"2019-02-10T14:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=27002"},"modified":"2019-01-06T08:54:44","modified_gmt":"2019-01-06T14:54:44","slug":"the-phantom-empire-1988","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=27002","title":{"rendered":"The Phantom Empire (1988)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> Fred Olen Ray is a cool dude. He&#8217;s made over 100 movies, but this was made somewhat early on in his career. This film is a throwback to 1950&#8217;s Z-grade monster cheapies, with a bit of 1930&#8217;s serials thrown in as well. Yes, this film is beyond low budget. This is one of those flicks where they schlep a camera up to Bronson Canyon, and spend most of the movie running back and forth down the same cave. Also we get a side trip to Vasquez Rocks, which should be very familiar to fans of old sci-fi or old B-Westerns. The plot: is that really important? Just know we&#8217;ve a got a bad Indiana Jones rip-off played by Robert Quarry, his hard-drinking female second, a half-naked mute cave girl, the guy from &#8220;Reanimator&#8221;, Sybil Danning as the &#8220;Alien Queen&#8221;, and Robby the Robot shows up, amongst other foolishness I can&#8217;t even remember. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plus Fred is just a good dude&#8230;.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fred Olen Ray is a cool dude. He&#8217;s made over 100 movies, but this was made somewhat early on in his career. This film is a throwback to 1950&#8217;s Z-grade monster cheapies, with a bit of 1930&#8217;s serials thrown in as well. Yes, this film is beyond low budget. 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