I've only seen the MST3K version (as I'm sure almost everyone else has), so of course you can tell that this is a VERRRRY *bad* movie. The only thing is that if they had just followed the flashback, this might have been a better movie. It still would have been a B-movie, but I don't think it would have been as painful. However, if they had a new director, writer, cast, and production...