⚡🚀 Flesh Gordon blazed across screens on this day in 1974. An American superhero sex comedy feature film which is a spoof of Universal Pictures’s first (of three) Flash Gordon serial films from the 1930s. The film was produced by Walter R. Cichy, Bill Osco, and Howard Ziehm. It was co-directed by Ziehm and Michael Benveniste, who also wrote the screenplay. The cast includes Gregory Loquist, Suzanne Fields, John Hoyt and William Dennis Hunt. It was distributed by Mammoth Films. The storyline is reminiscent of the first Universal Pictures Flash Gordon serial Flash Gordon (1936), but written and directed with a purposely campy adult flavor. The planet Porno (in the serial: Mongo) and major characters are suggestive innuendos: the hero Flesh Gordon (Flash Gordon); his love interest Dale Ardor (Dale Arden); the evil Emperor Wang the Perverted (Ming the Merciless); scientist Dr. Flexi Jerkoff (Dr. Alexi Zarkov); seductive Amora, queen of Magic (Ming’s daughter Aura); and gay Prince Precious (Prince Barin). The film features production values comparable to the original serial, but with stop-motion animation of creatures, frequent use of gratuitous nudity, and brief sex scenes. Vivian Sobchack commented that Flesh Gordon is “a skin flick hilariously molded around the Flash Gordon serials, and fully and lovingly aware of genre conventions from special effects to dialogue.” The film was nominated for the 1975 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation (the only indie production nominated that year), but lost to Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein.—Wikipedia ⁣—a softcore spoof with stop-motion monsters and more wang than Flash… it blasted past decency at the speed of camp… fans? .⁣ .⁣ .⁣ .⁣ .⁣ #Cinema ⚛︎ #Craigtnelson ⚛︎ #Flashgordon ⚛︎ #Forbiddenfutures ⚛︎ #Movie ⚛︎ #Movies ⚛︎ #Oddness___ ⚛︎ #Sciencefiction ⚛︎ #Scifi ⚛︎ #Space ⚛︎ #Starwars ⚛︎ #Vhs ⚛︎