The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: Space Thing (1968)

BONUS WILDCARD WEEK (September 22 – 28) Go order something from the SWV website and watch it!

James Granilla (Steve Vincent) just wants to read his science fiction magazines in bed until his wife Marge (Bambi Allen, who is in everything from Day of the Nightmare to the title role in Miss Nymphet’s Zap-In and Terror At Orgy Castle; she should be a Something Weird hall of famer) seduces him, revealing that his back is quite hirsute. Then he goes to sleep and despite what he’s like while awake, dream James in horny, as he becomes Planetarian Colonel Granilla , who has stowed away as a spy on the Terranean ship Supreme Erection.

His job is to study the crew, led by the whip-carrying lesbian Captain Mother (Cara Peters as Legs Benedict; she’s also in a ton of movies, including Massacre Mafia Style), but he keeps getting yanked into their sexual hijinks. There’s Connie (played by Karla Conway using the name April Playmate; she was not only the April 1966 Playboy Playmate of the Month, living up to her stage name, but is tied with Sue Williams as the shortest Playmate ever at just 4′ 11″),  Portia (Merci Montello, who would soon use the name Mercy Rooney once she married Mickie Rooney Jr.; she was the December 1972 Playmate of the Month and provided the costume for Bigfoot) and Astrid (Fancher Fague, The Head Mistress). They all have stage names here because producer and co-director David F. Friedman didn’t want the actresses them to get famous by their names, as if they became known, he was worried that they would charge him more money to get naked in his movies.

This was co-directed by Byron Made, who also made The BushwhackerShe FreakThe Acid Eaters and A Smell of HoneyA Taste of Brine. The best part of this would be the credits — and that’s no insult — as they are painted on the legs and breasts of several women.