Roy From Space (Roy del Espacio)

Completely lost for over 40 years and only the 3rd animated feature ever produced in Mexico, Roy From Space has finally returned, newly scanned from the original 35mm negative and lovingly restored by Deaf Crocodile! The only feature made by noted titles and commercials animator Héctor López Carmona, Roy is a wildly entertaining work of Outsider / Sci-Fi Animation, loosely inspired (ahem) by the classic 1930s Flash Gordon serials. "I'm Roy from Space. I come from Earth,” our helmet-wearing hero announces with a straight face (note: he never takes off his helmet, indoors or outdoors), and we follow as he fights a nonstop stream of synthesizer-voiced robots and flying saucers in the service of wicked Ming-the-Merciless clone “King Alom” while fending off the king’s hot-blooded daughter. Produced over the course of 3 years, often with the help of non-professional animators, Roy features an incredibly strange and disorienting Outsider Animation style,…