Released the same year as Star Wars , Alfonso Brescia’s (internationally known as Cosmos: War of the Planets ) offers a fascinating, albeit low-budget, glimpse into the Italian "Spaghetti Sci-Fi" boom of the late 1970s . While George Lucas was revolutionizing special effects, Brescia was working in the trenches of Italian genre cinema, delivering a film that is now celebrated—and often roasted—as a cult classic of the "so bad it's good" variety. A Galactic Misadventure

: A simulated sex machine used by the crew, signaling the film's lean toward adult-oriented camp rather than family-friendly space opera.

: A machine named Wiz that provides "logic" and often bizarre commentary throughout the mission.