Review of "Logan's Run"

Holy Crap, it's so retro it's scary! Logan's Run is a sci-fi classic. Basically, it's the 23rd Century and the world's population lives in a domed city where people only live to age 30 and they are ceremoniously killed. Logan is a sandman, ordered to eliminate any runners who are trying to escape their destiny. He is then ordered to find Sanctuary, the place where the runners go.

It's made in 1976 and has 1976 effects. The domed city is painfully obviously a model and the outfits look like bad Halloween costumes. The guns seem to shoot fireworks that hit only the ground and rarely people. People are killed in the psychedelic Carousel with visible wires and obvious charges strapped to them when they "die." It has the first use of holography on film to an even more psychedelic effect. You can see the human under the robot. Can you blame them? No, but it can be painful to watch and know that Star Wars was only a year away and doesn't suffer from these cliches.

The story on the other hand is awesome. It's a very compelling and touching story about what happens to Logan. It's creepy to see a young Michael York and Old Man doesn't shut up. There's a lot of material in this film and it runs long but you don't feel robbed. Despite the cheese this film is ripe for remaking. The story is so sound, it just needs to be de-futurized. Just because it's the future doesn't mean it isn't unrecognizable as Earth. I would enjoy watching this film again and would love to see the remake of it.

My rating: 7 out of 10, good but so, so scary
DVD-worthy: It's a bare-bones release so it's cheap.