Battlefield Earth (Blu-ray)

Speaking of horror... the way I look at it, there are many kinds of horror. There’s the visceral and supernatural horror that we can experience safely by living vicariously in films, games, and novels. There’s the potential horrors inherent with thrill seeking, the mysteries of the unknown and great beyond... then there is true horror. Horror that digs deep down into the very fiber of your being. Horror that changes you, that strikes such unmitigated terror within that it bends the nature of your reality. Watching Battlefield Earth evokes all of those horrors and more. This film is an endurance test of such monumental awfulness that it really is beyond most to fully comprehend. It is TERRIFYING how bad it is. There is a reason that Battlefield Earth consistently tops many lists of worst films ever made. Although I don’t put it on that particular pedestal, I think an argument can be convincingly made. From the very first few minutes of bizarre camera angles, smeary color filters and insane info dumps, it becomes horrifyingly apparent that this is going to be a dumpster fire of epic and incomparable proportions. The seemingly endless minutes to follow would only reinforce this new reality. And lo, at long last, after nearly 15 years of unbridled anticipation, I finally own a copy. I’ve wanted this beautiful disaster on bluray since the beginning of the format, and it only took a desperate studio system under threat of collapse in the midst of a worldwide pandemic to make it a reality. Fair trade off? I’ll let you decide. Any fans of this classic sci-fi epic?