Damnation Alley

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Damnation Alley

PG

1977

1h 31m

Sci-Fi

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Two Air Force officers (Jan-Michael Vincent, George Peppard) lead a desert road trip to Albany, N.Y., the only city left after World War III.

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

Dec 8

1.5/4

This was hardly worth all the fuss.

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Eddie Harrison

film-authority.com

01/17/2024

3/5

…there are the kind of big, epic moments that you’d expect from the mid 70’s end-of-the-world blockbuster, but there’s also absolutely cringe special effects and one of the most underwhelming endings in cinema….

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John Brosnan

Starburst

07/22/2022

What really sinks this film is the lackluster direction... and script.

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Fernando Trueba

El Pais (Spain)

07/31/2019

An absolutely cheap dud. [Full Review in Spanish]

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R.L. Shaffer

IGN DVD

01/29/2012

6/10

Slow moving, with cheesy visual effects and some nasty B-movie trappings. But the story and setting are both dreary and fascinating. And performances are top notch.

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Rich Cline

Shadows on the Wall

08/26/2005

3/5

gonzo guilty pleasure

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Aze D

10/21/2024

This is a classic 70's B-movie. Sure, it has some standard post apocalyptic tropes and plot gaps but it also has some interesting concepts. The killer cockroaches that only eat organic material and the cool roadmaster vehicle make it worth a watch.

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NiB Y

09/17/2024

A campy and fun Sci-Fi & Dystopic superproduction. It ends abruptly and the characters are quite... stupid; but it's a solid visual effects wonder with a nice story.

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Jeff P

01/02/2024

I remember this movie when I was a kid. Great entertainment at the time. Knowing the cast members from TV shows such as the A-Team and Air Wolf doesn't hurt. It is cheesy, but I still love it. I just read that George Lucas worked with Alan Ladd, Studio Chief, and took a 1/4 of the production money from this film to make Star Wars. This explains a lot and probably was for the best. I wouldn't have changed a thing. I was only going to give it four stars till I read this. Five Stars and why not.

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cees t

11/16/2022

3/10 - No good, except for the disaster scene that reminded me of Spice World and the cool guy on the bike that reminded me of Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

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01/31/2021

Rarely have I seen worse than this. Giant scorpions and stock footage nuclear explosions.

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08/30/2020

20th Century Fox planned two big science fiction movies for 1977. The movie Damnation Alley was regarded as being the movie which was more likely to be successful, and thus received a larger budget and a bigger actor - George Peppard. It was a post-apocalyptic movie set after a nuclear war had tipped the earth off its axis and some soldiers go on a road trip in a unique vehicle called the Landmaster. Regrettably the movie sucks ass, but they inserted as much footage of the Landmaster trundling along the landscape as they could. The truck is very cool; they actually built this incredible thing and it performed very well. The movie essentially became truck porn. The other movie 20th Century Fox was working on was Star Wars.

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Synopsis

Two Air Force officers (Jan-Michael Vincent, George Peppard) lead a desert road trip to Albany, N.Y., the only city left after World War III.

Director: Jack Smight
Producer: Jerome M. Zeitman, Paul Maslansky
Screenwriter: Alan Sharp, Lukas Heller
Production Co: Twentieth Century Fox, Zeitman-Landers-Roberts Productions
Rating: PG
Genre: Sci-Fi
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 1, 2013
Runtime: 1h 31m

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