Spoonixel Amateur movie with Big budget

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Sarita Rafferty There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

Edwin The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

ehrldawg A group of strangers deal with an impending nuke attack.So they use a 53' trailer as a bomb shelter. That is an interesting concept. I think Id climb the mountain with Jake and watch the fireworks. The editing on this one was a bit amateurish. Otherwise,this was a a watchable movie.Alan Austin drives the White big rig.Alan Austin is a permanent A list actor!Audrey Martin,Mary Morias, and Carol Kent are hot!!---One Truck Drivers Opinion---erldwgstruckermovies.com

drystyx This is more of a stage play than a blockbuster movie, and has the elements of drama that make it rise.It deals with a policeman, or a deputy as he calls himself, armed with shotgun and pistol, performing his duty at a road block. Blindly, he carries out his orders, and seems to be part of a system, but we gradually find he is a tyrant who is making up his own system.It turns out that the road block is because of an impending nuclear strike, and the setting is well over 25 miles away from the city and strategic military centers, but also smack dab in the center of them.The other characters come across as clichés to the naive, but they aren't. In fact, neither is the officer. Unfortunately, this is still the way people panic, trying to appear sensible, but in fact like chickens with their heads cut off. Those who laugh the most at the silliness mark themselves as most likely to crack themselves. Only by facing the reality of Fear can someone hope to be as sensible as the trio who actually have a chance of escaping a horrid fate.SPOILER HERE: Three characters, local people, soon realize the mania of the cop and devise their own survival plan. Two of them obviously survive the ending, and even in 1962 it was obvious they survived. This steps on a lot of people's toes, because these two don't fall into the mode of what modern hate mongering audiences like to see survive, but sorry, those are the facts. This comes across as a very intriguing drama. And the characters only seem far fetched to those who've never been in danger. They are frighteningly realistic. Even the events aren't that far fetched today. This is a highly underrated piece. And the lesson to learn isn't so much how to have a chance to survive disaster (although that is shown also), but how to survive the lunacy of those who have authority.

banker-4 If you find this atomic bomb era film interesting or informative of the duck and cover time period I would heartily recommend that you view "Split Second" by Dick Powell. It has an RKO budget and Hollywood B stars such as Richard Egan, Stephen McNally, Alexis Smith, Jan Sterling and Keith Andes. It has much better acting, writing and production values. In each of these films people of various social and moral backgrounds are placed in tense situations in close confinement, that is a pressure cooker situation. Both this film and "Split Second" are informative of the real fear of atomic warfare that was in the back of our minds in the 50' and 60's.

hpmc6 This was definitely a lower end 'B' movie, in terms of acting and production values. For a movie with such dramatic, relevant and plausible importance at the time it was made, it was surprisingly boring at times.But it's worth seeing, because this really did almost happen in the year it was made, 1962. It's a time capsule, even if lower end, of such a drama made at the time, not interpreted decades later.People who make fun of the paranoia of the cold war should remember this fact. The only thing that's really changed, is the perception. The possibility of nuclear war, is still with us.