Escape from Galaxy 3
1981 film by Bitto Albertini
Escape from Galaxy 3 (original title "Giochi erotici nella terza galassia" also known as Starcrash II, Star Lovers, and Space Trap) is an Italian 1981 science fiction film. The film is notorious for using stock footage from Starcrash for all its model scenes, and the film is occasionally known as Starcrash II.
Plot
In a distant galaxy, aboard a space station, Princess Belle Star approaches her father, King Ceylon, with her Space Captain, Lithan. She advises that their scanners have detected a ship that doesn't belong in their galaxy. The King declares that Oraclon, "The King of the Night", has come to take over his territories. Lithan suggests they put plan Epsilon into action.
Aboard his ship (which looks like a giant mechanical clawed fist), Oraclon communicates with Ceylon, who refuses to surrender. Oraclon launches his attack, destroying Ceylon's Space Station and the planet Exalon, but not before Ceylon sends Lithan and his daughter to obtain help from his ally Antares. Oraclon gives chase and manages to damage their ship, but they manage to elude his ships by going to hyperspace with no set coordinates.
They approach and land on a planet that looks like Earth. Their landing scares off the human population, who attack them with sticks and rocks.
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