Spectre (1977 TV Movie)
6/10
good and bad
24 September 2008
Warning: Spoilers
I recently got a hold of a bunch of bootlegged Gene Roddenbury pilots - I am taking a break from the Questor tapes to write this.

I liked the concept of this show, but I felt that Culp underplayed his role too much and was too wooden - remake this with Kevin Costner. Both Culp and especially Gig young were too old to play their roles - Gig was not very attractive.

The plot made little sense as noted above. Culp was more of a see what's happening sort of guy, I would have preferred a Mandrake the Magician or Dr. Strange war of magical forces.

Much as I like the female form, I had my son watch the movie with me and was not happy about the surprise nudity.

SPOILER ALERT: I still like the movie, but ripped it to an MP4 and made my sin a PG copy by cutting out the few seconds of nudity and more importantly the aborted incest/sister rape, which I did not feel was appropriate in a TV movie.

The Zuni warrior episode of Trilogy of Terror and Don't Be Afraid of the Dark were much scarier TV movies.

I actually came here because someone was marketing a Spectre 2 movie. has anyone heard about it??
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