Voyage Into Space

ok Im a kid again when I watch these my kids are like whatever...so its an adult thing I guess

Voyage into Space, great family fun movie. I remember watching this when I was 8yrs old.good movie.

Picture quality and color was terrible!

I like this movie alot of action packed all science fiction movies!

Voyage Into Space is my Vietnam. It takes 4 episodes of the 26 episode series Giant Robo, or Johnny Sokko and his Flying Robot, and crams them into one movie. So why does it distress me so? I saw it when I was probably 5 years old. I was obsessed with robots, like my Mazinger Z Shogun Warrior. I had never seen a movie where the robot dies at the end. Spoiler warning — the robot blows up real good at the end. I cried for years. I might still be crying. Earth has been invaded by an interstellar terrorist group known as the Gargoyle Gang, which is led by Emperor Guillotine, who spends all of his time hidden on the ocean floor in a UFO. Yes, that’s just how awesome this is. They’ve been capturing scientists to create an army of extraordinary magnitude, err monsters, to conquer the Earth. A boy named Daisaku Kusama, or Johnny Sokko in America, where he was voiced by a woman named Bobbie Byers who also shows up in Savages from Hell and The Wild Rebels, and Juro Minami — nee Jerry Mano in the gaijin world — from the spy team Unicorn are all that stands between aliens owning this big blue rock. It gets better for them when they meet scientist Lucius Guardian, who gives a small child the power to control a robot — great logic — before he gets killed and drops a nuke on the aliens. Man, this Gargoyle Gang — they dress like the United Nations of bad guys, donning German, Soviet and Central American military gear all at once, topping it off with designer sunglasses — are bad guys. They have all manner of horrific beasts ready to destroy Earth. In this cut down movie, which is basically episodes 1, 2, 10, 17 and 26 of the show, you get 100 minutes of pure madness. There’s Draculon the Sea Monster, who was known as Dakolar in Japan. Nucleon the Magic Globe — also known as Globar in Tokyo. Lygon, who swallows a train. The Gargoyle Vine, which has the much cooler name in Japan of the Satan Rose. And all manner of evil henchmen like Spider and Doctor Over. The full series even has an alien mummy and a peg-legged snakeman. Unlike most anime and Japanese movies that were sent to the U.S. at this time, nobody thought that they should edit the violence out of this. So in one episode, a kid almost gets killed by a firing squad. And yeah — the ending — where the pharaoh robot dies saving the Earth? I remember going outside and staring into the sky, punching my fist into the ground, screaming at God. No, really. I did. For days. It was so bad that my mother had to write an entirely new ending for me so that I could get on with grade school.

I watched this while visiting my dad in Hawaii one summer around 1978 maybe. It was on a black and white tv. It was on several times all summer long. Ive talked about this movie for 40 years. So glad to see it available on Prime.

Yes, the picture quality is less than perfect, but a pristine print of this rare film does not exist. Voyage Into Space is cheesy fun, and Sinister Cinema is to be praised for preserving it. Know going in: This film contains giant rubber monsters who smash toy tanks, secret agencies with names like Unicorn and Gargoyle, an evil space alien named Emperor Guillotine and a giant robot controlled by a boy who communicates with it through a Dick Tracy like wristwatch. And thats just for starters. This film aint Citizen Kane, nor does it pretend to be. Its for fans of weird, obscure, but mostly cheesy movies.

Good movie. I just think the quality wasnt all that great. Its amazing what software can do to restore old film. They shouldve used it on such a cult classic such as this one. Ive seen old 1930s movies restored to such clarity and the sound is amazing. But, I understand that sometimes it depends on what material is available. But, still, they couldve worked a little harder to make this one a great presentation.

The first time I saw this movie was back around 1976. It played for 5 nights in a row on channel 5 KTLA. I loved it then and still do. We called him Giant Robot

Love this movie as a kid. Still love it thanks for sending it so quickly.