Def-Con 4
Digby Cook, Donald G. Jackson, Paul Donovan & R.J. Kizer
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Plot Summary
Howe (Tim Choate), Jordan (Kate Lynch), and Walker (John Walsch) are three astronauts who return to earth two months after a nuclear holocaust and must confront a new and terrifying reality. All the cities and towns have been destroyed. Shanty towns have been constructed from the refuse of the old world. Civilization has given way to barbarism. And the battle for the future of the world has just begun.
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Customer Reviews
Def Con 4. -- What more can you say?
Come on. -- CLASSIC!
That's about as to the point as I can get.
Awful, not in a good way.
I rented this movie intending to waste an evening, but could barely sit through it. I chose it only because I recognized the poster art from a tantalizing VHS box I always saw on the sci-fi shelf at my local video rental place as a kid in the early 90s, but could never rent it because it was rated a big scary "R." So, encountering it on iTunes, I figured it was a chance to see something forbidden to me as a child (even though I hadn't thought of it at all in the intervening years until the image lit the fire of recognition). Well, it is downright awful. The first ten minutes are kind of promising in a vaguely artsy sci-fi thriller 80s way, but then it just descends into unpleasant but campy horror schlock complete with post-nuclear cannibals and a horribly acted teenage villain. Oh yeah, there are also really weird allusions to rape and sexual assault that are actually kind of more creepy than actually showing it would be. "What color are her areola? Red or brown?" "Red." "Rounded or pointed?" "Pointed." "Good." All very deadpan and weird.
Anyways, there's a nice scene of some cannibals eating a guy and a good opening in a spaceship during the nuclear apocalypse (and I do like the poster art, which actually doesn't really look like anything in the movie itself!), but the rest is cut-rate horror and badly acted, although it ends up with an accidentally vaguely Terry Gilliam or Walter Murch "Return to Oz" feel. This film might be one to see while you're in an altered state or suffering from sleep deprivation. But it's not really even so bad it's good. Yuck.
Oh yeah, and it's a Canadian film, which doesn't help things much.
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