The Return (1980)

2.0

18 Nov 2025

This movie was watched as part of a RiffTrax commentary.

The visuals in this movie are the perfect amount of cheap, setting vibes even if they aren’t convincing.

A hilarious amount of long driving scenes. They’re fairly scenic, but they take up so much time! I forgot this was sci-fi until Vincent Schiavelli reappeared with a laser dagger thing.

Martin Landau, with a mustache, is nearly unrecognizable.

Darby Hinton of Malibu Express fame! I guess he was in a ton of Greydon Clark movies. He’s so handsome. Darby. Not Greydon, who appears in this movie and delivers a more awkward performance than I thought anyone could manage, let alone the director.

It’s genuinely shocking when Cybill Shepherd shows up. Was her career really this low in 1980? At least she acts in accordance with her meager wages. The most welcome phoning-it-in I’ve seen in recent memory.

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