Above- cover art for the Kino Lorber Blu-ray release.

Member-only story

My Science Project!!! A 1985 Pop Culture Cult Classic Warping in on Blu-ray…

Chris Nersinger
6 min readSep 30, 2023

For Michael Harlan (John Stockwell), fun loving high school senior who’s only real love is cars, today is like any other day. You see Harlan just wants to graduate. What is about to happen to him and his friends is like nothing he or anyone has ever experienced before. Hey, it’s all in the name of science and an A on your project.

****Featuring music by the Tubes -you can’t go wrong. Make this your date film for the year or maybe just the weekend, let’s hope you just return to your own dimension. A time traveling ditty all sci-fi films should have one-The tubes — My science project (1985) RARE — YouTube

Above- Harlan with the love of his life. His car. A 1968 Pontiac GTO. Now you understand his attraction to one of the hottest cars to come off the line in the ’60s. On the left-Fisher Stevens as Vince, Harlans best friend.

Hang onto to your favorite baseball cap for one wild ride because you are about to step into a place that is between time and space-My Science Project 1985 — MOVIE TRAILER — YouTube

Above- Left-Ellie (Danielle von Zerneck) before her transition into one hot babe from a “nerd” car buff and Sherman (Raphael Sbarge). Sherman a geek to the nth degree and one of the smartest kid in school. These two make up the other part of the gang who don’t know they are about to save the planet. Oh, and the very fabric of time.

Cars, high school hi jinks and time travel. What more could you ask for in a movie. Throw in Dennis Hopper as a hip science teacher Dr. Roberts or as he…

--

--

Chris Nersinger
Chris Nersinger

Written by Chris Nersinger

Was born the year that DR. NO (1962) premiered. His first movie, age 3 -MONSTER ON THE CAMPUS (1958). A writer of all things Pop Culture. Movies, Music, TV. ...

No responses yet