JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF TIME
Would you like to venture back to the time of the dinosaurs? How about a trip to a future society? Do you want to see where Sharon Stone kept her basic instincts one more time, just to make sure? Now you can!
Follow the Troma Team, director David L. Hewitt (Monsters Crash The Pajama Party, Hell’s Chosen Few, The Lucifer Complex), and the Institute of Temporal Research through the doorways of existence in Journey To The Center of Time! Film and television star Abraham Sofaer (TV’s Star Trek, Lost In Space, Mission Impossible) is Dr. Gordon, a scientist experimenting with time travel. He and his two partners, Dr. Mark Manning (Anthony Eisley; The Mighty Gorga, The Doll Squad, The Night Crawlers) and Karen White (Gigi Perreau; Hell On Wheels, The Mater Race, Bonzo Goes To College) can’t seem to accomplish a trip of more than twenty-four hours into the past. Unfortunately, the pressure is on. The new president of the company, Mr. Stanton (Scott Brady, brother of actor Lawrence Tierney of Reservoir Dogs fame), is threatening to cease funding if the results don’t improve. Desperate to impress, the team tries Phase B: the future! With Stanton looking on in what is a very tense lab, the scientists ignore safety precautions, push the equipment to dangerous limits, and at last, success! But look at the time screen! There is nothing but static! There is no indication of when the hell they are!
The screen begins to settle, and an unfamiliar setting appears: a spaceship surrounded by foreign infrastructure. The lab instruments indicate that they have been hurtled 5,000 years into some planet’s future, and worse, in the middle of a war. Their presence is detected and they are taken to one of the leaders, the very pale and well-endowed Vina (Poupee Gamin; Fastest Guitar Alive). She informs them that this is indeed Earth, and that her people are aliens from whom the future humans are attempting to steal weapons. Fighting erupts around them all, but the scientists and Stanton escape in the lab. Once again careening through time, they are soon confronted with a mysterious object on a collision coarse. In foolish haste, Stanton forces some of the controls in an attempt to deflect the object, but only succeeds in hurling them faster through time. They are trapped in the lab and completely out of control. Orange you glad you painted the lab, Mark? The time screen projects a veritable motion picture of human warfare! Mushroom clouds disperse into Higgins boats at Omaha which drop their ramps at the feet of Confederates firing cannons. The group continues to spin counterclockwise until the time screen once again rests. If that rear projection lizard is any indication, they have stopped in the savagery of prehistory! Foolish Stanton draws the scientists out of the lab and into the wilds. If you thought the lizard was scary, wait until you see the lava! Stanton and Gordon do not survive their prehistoric visit, but Mark and Karen do. They flee in the lab, but their calculations are off. They can’t get back to the right moment, and are at the mercy of the space-time continuum.
Destination: Unknown!