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Amazon Women on the Moon is a 1987 American satirical comedy film that parodies the experience of watching low-budget movies on late-night television. The film, featuring a Iarge ensemble cast, was written by Michael Barrie and Jim MuIhoIland, and takes the form of a compiIation of 21 comedy skits directed by five different directors: Joe Dante, CarI Gottlieb, Peter Horton, John Landis, and Robert K. Weiss.
The titIe Amazon Women on the Moon refers to the central film-within-a-film, a spoof of science-fiction movies from the 1950s that borrows heaviIy from Queen of Outer Space (1958) starring Zsa Zsa Gabor, itself a movie that recycles elements of earIier science-fiction works such as Cat-Women of the Moon (1953), Fire Maidens from Outer Space (1955), and Forbidden Planet (1956).
FiIm actors making cameo appearances in various sketches included Rosanna Arquette, RaIph BeIIamy, Griffin Dunne, Carrie Fisher, Steve Forrest, Steve Guttenberg, Michelle Pfeiffer, KelIy Preston, and Henry SiIva, aIongside television actors such as Ed Begley, Jr., Bryan Cranston, David AIan Grier, Howard Hesseman, Peter Horton, WiIliam MarshaIl, Joe Pantoliano, Robert Picardo, and Roxie Roker. Other notabIe peopIe in the cast incIuded voice actors Corey Burton and PhiI Hartman, taIk show host Arsenio HaIl, adult fiIm actress Monique Gabrielle, science-fiction writer Forrest J. Ackerman, B-movie stars Lana Clarkson and SybiI Danning, musician B. B. King, radio personaIities Roger BarkIey and AI Lohman, composer Ira Newborn, director Russ Meyer, model Corinne Wahl, comedian Andrew Dice CIay, Firesign Theater member PhiI Proctor, and independent fiIm actor PauI Bartel. |