ThiefHott Too much of everything

Intcatinfo A Masterpiece!

FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

davis2000 This rates three stars for the humor I found in its plot holes, bad animation and ludicrous plot. It's too bad nobody at MST3K got permission to riff this film.The premise, that scientists can only retrieve the spy's memories by making him think he's 150 years in the past is never explained sufficiently, it's just a way to avoid using futuristic sets. Even though they create an isolated compound complete with period buildings and antiques gathered from multiple museums they can't seem to keep intruders from using the prop telephone to wrinkle the plot. Nor can they prevent a pretty girl from hiking along to flirt with their test subject and spoiling all their work.Psychedelic patterns are used to obscure the poorly done matte paintings, action sequences and other "memories". Clear plastic helmets on the military add some unintentional fun as does the Dickensian matron of the "kinery" (sic). Somehow in this future they've stamped out most disease but don't seem to know how to immunize against smallpox and the plague.I looked forward to seeing this as I never saw it in theaters as a kid but it's far from Castle's best work. This was ambitious but failed to capitalize on it's few good ideas. By the end I half expected Monte Markham to turn out to be Sen Chui in disguise but instead he's just a traitor, ultimately killed by a red mental tornado whipped up by Christopher George's character. You'd think the General would want to harness that as a weapon but no, he just wants to berate scientists.

Andy Sandfoss I taped this film off of a cable TV broadcast, apparently a rare occurrence. The film doesn't seem to get any air time at all, and as far as I know it is not available commercially on VHS or DVD. As much as one would want to corroborate other people's opinions of less-well-known films, I cannot recommend William Castle's "Project X". I found the film wildly over-plotted and very much derivative of other, better films. Where it tries to present something different, I found it just confused. The acting is at its best moments routine, and occasionally goes way over the top. The special effects do not impress; the film eventually resorts to using animation and not very stylish animation at that. But give a gander to the cast and you'll see why. William Castle is most widely known as a showman and promoter. There isn't anything here like that, so the film has to stand on its own. It can't.

santafesheriff MASTERFUL performances from Christopher George (as always) and newcomer Greta Baldwin make this William Castle Sci-fi adventure truly exciting, innovative, classic space adventure with a deep message and meaning. Monte Markham adds another polished performance to his long list of superb acting film and TV credits. The film is way ahead of its time 1968 and deserved Oscar recognition. A truly well made, beautifully acted gem. Christopher George one of the greatest 60s/70s tough action leading men gives another epic, dedicated performance that put to shame other so called major stars. To correct some imbecile comments it is the presence and acting ability of stars like Christopher George, Audie Murphy and similar leading action men that make a film watchable and memorable.

Scooby-43 I actually have a videotape of "Project X" and that makes me one of the few people that has actually seen this movie in the last thirty years. The movie deals mostly with biological warfare, human genetic manipulation, and mind machine interfacing. It was prophetic in a way that it predicted that Genetic Engineering was a coming thing. Despite it's rather low budget look, Henry Jones as the head scientist gives this movie an aire of reality. The mystery is the meaning of the last message the amnesiac agent sent to the West, a doomsday message, and we are kept guessing to the end what that doomsday message means. A memorable moment is when Karen Summers meets our amnesiac agent and the friendly way she acts and picks him up is something I've often imagined might happen to me someday. No wonder the bad guy kept breaking into her room, he was the only other guy to see it. Another scene that is memorable is when the released anger thing, whatever it was, does whatever it did to the meanie bad guy. That's something I have never forgotten.Well if you haven't seen this movie, you missed a classic and good luck trying to find it.