"2030 AD." "Post-ecologic holocaust." "Director Charles Band creates a unique science-fiction world with" "Crash and Burn, the newest release from Full Moon Entertainment." "It's a future where nuclear bombs have not exploded." "The people on Earth have not been annihilated by some alien force." "What has happened simply is there has been an economic collapse and several large corporations that wound up really buying out government, really effectively controlling the world." "Coupled with our messing up the ozone layer, and the climate being at certain times unlivable." "It's a future that could actually happen if we're not careful." " You really oughtta go inside." " Why?" " The ultraviolet." "It's burning you up." " Why?" "Megan Ward plays Arren, the granddaughter of renegade television newscaster Ralph Waite of television's The Waltons." "Since I grew up in the desert, and I don't have any playmates" "I find that all my time is playing with robots and computers." "So I learned how to resurrect this eighty foot dilapidated robot, and turns out I get to save the day with it." " That what I think it is?" " DV8." "Back when they made them big." "I've only seen these in pictures before." "How'd it get all the way out here?" "The government scrapped them." "They built them for the uranium mines." "When the mines went dry, they dumped them." " There's probably more around here somewhere." " Really?" "Must've really been a sight to see this old guy in action." "The first time we reveal the robot," "Megan and I are walking up to it and taking a look at it." "It's difficult because we're using miniatures, and to walk up to nothing but a rock pile and to have to really use your imagination." "Actually turns out to be my ally." "Most of the robots are my enemies in this one, but this guy is my friend." "Imprisoned by the thermal storm raging outside, the reluctant guests prepare to bed down for what will be a long night." ""Crash and burn" is the computer virus that attacks the android Synthoids in the film." "That's why they go after and kill my grandfather and proceeded to kill everyone else." "There's a tiny little chip in my big, gargantuan brain." "The company calls it the "Jiminy factor," cause it's like a conscience." "It's kinda cute, huh?" "I would never in a million, billion, trillion years terminate a human." "But thanks to a miracle of modern technology, poor little Jiminy Cricket... has crashed... and burned!" "Jiminy Cricket factor is an implanted conscience... which is apparently, according to the screenplay, all that stands between the Quinn human and Quinn the killer robot." "It's funny that a conscience can be reduced to a microchip, but nonetheless that's what's happened in 2030." "What's the rush?" "!" "My cheek was stabbed and ripped by the ingenue here." "My head was squibbed." "My head exploded with a shotgun blast from PG back there." "It's a tough life, being a Synthoid." "But it is the DV8 robot who is without a doubt" "Crash and Burn's biggest star and truest hero." "Action!" "Special effects wizard Dave Alan has fabricated the DV8 out of polystyrene plastic and resin." "It is four and a half feet tall and weighs 40 pounds." "Six puppeteers are required to animate the DV8..." "One for the legs, one for each arm one for the hand controls, one for the eyelights, and one to counter balance and control the headrod." "The robot puppetry is shot in front of a blue screen, a necessity for certain optical effects." "This particular case the robot is not featured throughout the film." "We're aware of the robot's presence." "The young girl in the picture tries to reactivate the robot during the film." "Luckily, much like the Calvary at the end of a Western, the robot does come to life at the end, and really does save the day by, on top of other things, squishing our villain." "Metal and muscle." "Man and machine." "Crash and Burn."