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Amazon Women On The Moon (1987)

• Directors
  • Joe Dante(segments The French Ventiloquist's Dummy" [TV cut & DVD only], "Hairlooming, Bullshit or Not, Critic's Corner, Roast Your Loved One, Reckless Youth)
  • Carl Gottlieb(segments Peter Pan Theater" [TV cut & DVD only], "Pethouse Video, Son of the Invisible Man, Art Sale)
  • Peter Horton(segment The Unknown Soldier" [TV cut & DVD only] and "Two I.D.'s)
• Writers
  • Michael Barrie
  • Jim Mulholland
• Stars
  • Rosanna Arquette
  • Michelle Pfeiffer
  • Arsenio Hall

  The 1987 portmanteau comedy feature Amazon Women on the Moon lampoons several film genres in general and the 1954 sci-fi cheapie Cat Women of the Moon in particular. Other sketches in Amazon Women include an opening bit with Arsenio Hall; a vignette titled "Son of the Invisible Man" wherein a naked Ed Begley Jr. runs around in full view of the nonplussed supporting cast; the It's Alive parody "Hospital", which offers the spectacle of Michelle Pfeiffer giving birth to Mr. Potato Head; and a Siskel & Ebert takeoff, featuring Arche Hahn as a TV viewer whose entire life is given a "thumbs down." Directed by several hands, including Joe Dante, Carl Gottleib, Peter Horton, John Landis, and Robert K. Weiss, Amazon Women on the Moon also features a satire of the Kroger G. Babb school of "sex hygiene" exploitation cheapies, with syphilis victim Carrie Fisher being counseled by unctuous doctor Paul Bartel.