In the year British television served up the mighty nuclear fallout frightener Threads, Hollywood rounded up some of its regulation twentysomething ‘teenagers’ to form skull-helmeted motorbike gangs and do each other in, until a standard-issue sinister corporation tries to bring them to heel using that failsafe signifier of bottom-feeding cinema, Kim Cattrall, as saucy intermediary. In the event of a holocaust, only cockroaches and films like this will survive.
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Applemask
July 20, 2009 at 3:49 pm
Only notable for being MST3K’d in 1992 or so. “You’re really stupid if you get by a car AFTER the apocalypse.”
Ken Shinn
July 20, 2009 at 7:33 pm
Also featured James Earl Jones in a sort-of equivalent role to Peter Ustinov’s crumbly-but-noble old man from Logan’s Run, didn’t it? A career all-time embarrassment for Jonesy, even Conan The Barbarian didn’t sink so low.
Applemask
July 20, 2009 at 9:15 pm
Vader also narrated, which at least made it intermittenly pleasant to listen to, or more accurately to hear because he still wasn’t anything worthwhile.
Matt Patton
March 15, 2010 at 3:29 am
Also notable for Robbie Benson’s Death by Falling Desk — the screenwriter had read HOWARD’S END, perhaps?