Actors: Ralph Meeker,Stafford Morgan, John
F. Goff, Carol Irene Newell, George "Buck" Flower
Rating: 1 out of 10, My journey
through 100 bad sci fi films continued with the increasingly rare American
movie. This was a very poor man’s combo of the Andromeda Strain and Night of the
Living Dead. A highly contagious alien virus is sent via slow freight train
with one guard and an overly inquisitive drunk conductor. Despite these high
security standards the virus gets out at a remote train station which is immediately
quarantined. The characters can’t fall asleep or their heads will explode. I’m
serious. Besides the fact the measures involved made very little sense this
could have been the formula for a highly introspective look at the four people trapped
under these conditions. Unfortunately the viewer is given the chance to sample
just how boring their plight is and the dynamic is dominated by possible the
most annoying character in recent history. A very early look at what a Trump
supporter would look like. I spent the second half of the movie praying for his
lead to explode. So, very bad, and liberally laced with the typical pessimism
of the late 1970s.
MVP: Stafford Morgan as Dr. Sorensen
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