"Saturn 3: the 1980s' weirdest sci-fi movie?"


"....A killer robot powered by baby brains. Kirk Douglas wrestling in the nude. Ryan revisits the very weird 80s sci-fi movie, Saturn 3...

Some movies aspire to strangeness. Other movies have strangeness thrust upon them."

On the surface, Saturn 3 sounds like a perfectly reasonable recipe for an intense sci-fi horror flick. It’s about a pair of scientists (played by Kirk Douglas and Farrah Fawcett) who work on an orbiting outpost parked somewhere in the vicinity of Saturn.
...They live an isolated yet relatively comfy existence with their cute dog....*until one day Harvey Keitel turns up and assembles a robot. Both Keitel and the robot turn out to be evil. You can probably guess what happens to the dog."





"Kirk Douglas insisted on taking his clothes off"


Saturn 3 features a robot called Hector, powered by baby brains


Yes, you read that correctly. Hector, a colossal "Demi-god Series" robot assembled by Harvey Keitel's sinister Captain Benson, is powered by brain tissue somehow extracted from human foetuses. Given that this nine-foot-tall spectre is supposed to replace one of the scientists on the Saturn station, you'd think that Kirk Douglas and Farrah Fawcett's characters would be unnerved enough already. But one quick reprogram from Benson later, and Hector's turned into a rampaging monster that lusts after Fawcett.
As batty as it all sounds, Hector's nevertheless a pretty cool-looking robot. Imposing, complex and eerily headless, Hector was one of the most expensive elements in Saturn 3's $10m production. Several versions were built, most of them radio-controlled and operated by a crew of 20. Getting Hector to do as he was told, however, brought its own challenges.


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