So true, and the pajama uniform doesn’t help his cause. It’s like his role was the final exam at Villain School and he just missed a passing grade.
Good point! And it leads me to wonder if this movie even had a protagonist. With a couple exceptions, all the characters were pretty awful, made it kind of hard to root for anyone.
His masterplan of impregnating an astronaut to unleash a new race of monsters is foiled and then he gets roasted by a bunch of Molotov cocktails while doing the standard villain taunt of ‘You have beaten me but there will be others!’
The Creeping Terror, with a design so incompetent that the people playing its victims are all forced to clearly jump into its mouth on purpose. Apparently there was a much better monster costume made for the film, but then its creator stole it when the director suddenly refused to pay for it, forcing them to quickly throw together basically a pantomime caterpillar.
The Dickensian figure on the vid screen was ineffective to say the least. A processor third class, a computech, and a mole from another corp took him out. Fingal by his own admission wasn’t “anti-corp” just bored and looking to be entertained. What does The Chairman do on a bad day?!
On the meta-level, it’s only five years between Ed Wood writing The Sinister Urge and Ed Wood writing Orgy of the Dead. So I think some villain, somewhere, won something.
Gotta go with Valeria from Robot Holocaust. I mean, she’s hot, but she can’t even pronounce basic English. And she couldn’t act her way out of a paper bag.
Oh totally agree, Valeria is the poster child for being ineffective and making it look good at the same time! I laugh every time I think of her trying to say “Dark One” but it sounds like “pork bun”