Cinema Suicide

I defy you watch this trailer and tell me that it doesn’t look like the greatest movie ever conceived. Astron-6 Video International turned up a lost direct to video gem (not really) from 1991 and put it on the internet for your downloading pleasure. It comes in Mp4 format and is tagged for your iPod or, uh, Zune, if you’re into that sort of thing.

Lazer Ghosts 2 easily qualifies as one of the funniest things I’ve seen in recent memory and captures that old video store vibe perfectly. So, like, there are these ghosts. Or lazer ghosts. The most evil among them is Albert Einstein. They have lazers. There’s this nerdy guy who kinda looks like Jim Van Bebber in Deadbeat At Dawn and he always seems to have a bloody nose. There’s a cop and a scientist woman who proves time and time again that she’s only wearing a bra under her lab coat. There’s also a good ghost who helps them out and does some kind of drug. There are a lot of lazer fights. Swords. Some shit blows up and a sweet rock guitar soundtrack. There are also some extremely funny lines of dialog like the one that titles this article as well as, “Come with me if you don’t want to be dead.” and “You can’t kill what’s already a dead Einstein’s ghost.”

At nine minutes it runs too long to be a trailer, but I would probably kill a man to see a feature length of this movie based on the above criteria, alone. Seriously. Point someone out and I”ll deep six them. You need to hold up your end of the bargain, though.

I’m actually reminded of some of the Mega64 movies or Something Awful’s Doomhouse. It is without question one of the most ridiculous things I’ve ever seen and I plan on showing it to everyone I know. Good work, Steven Kostanski.

edit: Take some time to look around the rest of the Astron-6 website.  It’s loaded with stuff to see and, quite frankly, I’m fascinated by most of it.  Make sure you see the Punch-Out trailer.  I have no idea what this movie could possibly be about but it has this Dazed and Confused meets Trainspotting vibe about it.