Nomination Year: 2026

SYNOPSIS: 

In the distant future, anyone can be brought back from the dead, as long as you extract their liquid soul and have enough money for a new body. Idle rich guy Michael Paré and his family spend their lives traveling around the galaxy in their private starship as space tourists. Or at least they did, until Michael crashed the ship, killing his wife and daughter. He had the money to fix the ship and bring back his daughter, but that wiped out his savings and the two of them eek out a living as interstellar traders while trying to save up enough money to resurrect mom. Unfortunately, while grounded for overdue maintenance, Michael pisses off a local crime boss and he and his daughter have to flee in their semi-repaired ship. Luckily, they happen upon a nearly abandoned space station where they get a lead on the location of the Deep Star, a long-lost ship said to have been carrying a fabulous treasure. Unluckily, Michael Paré is not the only washed-up D-lister in this movie -- Olivier Gruner and his gang of space pirates are also after the treasure. Michael and daughter must dodge the crime boss's minions, Olivier's pirates, and a menagerie of poorly animated alien monsters to see who will be the first to find the wreck of the Deep Star and salvage its legendary treasure. But is the treasure real ... or is it just bait in a sinister trap? Never fear, though, the treasure for bad movie fans is real -- the climactic fistfight between an aging Michael Paré and an aging Oliver Gruner is everything you imagined it would be.

Smithee Award Nominations

Oblivious
Do As I Say, Not As I Do Do as I say, not as I do.

Stupidest-Looking Monster
Moon Bacon Stardust, Motherfucker! Moon bacon stardust to you, too, motherfucker! These rogues beat up the poor friendly, and very, very stupid-looking aliens.

Worst Science
Extracted Souls Make Human-Cyborg Hybrids Souls can be extracted as a blue liquid called Essence and used to create cyborg-human hybrids. Er...wouldn't those just be "cyborgs?"

Inane Dialogue
"Even Manx Couldn't Screw This Up!" Apparently...he can.

Directors

Director	Claim to Fame
Garo Setian	Directed this and Automation (not counting a few short films).

Cast

Actor	Character	Claim to Fame
Michael Paré	Kip Corman	Though he played Lt. Ray Bozeman in Gone and Bull Pruitt in Hope Floats, I will always know him as the Travolta-like jock Tony Villicana from "The Greatest American Hero."
Olivier Gruner	Dykstra	A Smithee repeat offender, Olivier is a brutish French man-of-action, playing such roles as The Beast in Re- Generator; Shaun in Interceptor Force; Nash in Sector 4: Extraction; and Dirk in the Circuit franchise.
Sarah French	Taylor	AKA "Scarlet Salem," she's a beautiful blonde who played Scarlet in Incest Death Squad; Mike the Mechanic in Killer Biker Chicks; Jocelyn in Camp Kill; Julie in Shriek of the Sasquatch!; Heather in Slashercise; Air Witch in Sorority of the Damned; and many others. A true Smithee Queen!
Tyler Gallant	Wade	Played Sheriff Cristos in Death by VHS; Johnny Law in The Last American Horror Show; Larry Human in Alpha Wolf; and Chino in Bring the Law.
Rachele Brooke Smith	Nina	Avery in Bring It On: Fight to the Finish; Taryn Belle in Psycho Stripper; Jo in The Last Exorcist; Gina in Nightmare Shark; and dancers in stuff like Iron Man 2, The Nice Guys, 17 Again, Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel. Another bona-fide Smithee Screamqueen.
Sadie Katz	Elnora	Has an award named after her--but none here. Was Tonya in Clutch; Valerie in The Step Daddy; Anne in The Beast Inside; Carlee Summers in Clown Fear; and The Goddess Ishtar in Blood Feast. Quite a few Smithee Scream-queen-worthy gems in her repertoire.
Anahit Setian	Jackie	Marci in Automation; Shana Finegold in Ije: The Journey; Caroline Taylor in Red Herring. Married to the director, so there's that.
Jed Rowen	Manx	Character actor with an extensive filmography of Smithee fodder. Project N-Terro: The Yellow Pill; Beyond the Abyss; Brute 1976; Virus of the Undead: Pandemic Outbreak; Aliens and Dragons; Giantess Attack vs. Mecha Fembot; Attack of the Killer Donuts; and Halloween Pussy Trap Kill! Kill! to name but a few.

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