Tuesday, August 29, 2017

Survival Earth (1985)

aka Survival 1990

How bad is it? Pretty damn bad.
Should you see it? This is another very hard to find VHS... and, no, it's not worth the search.


This was shot on video, for television, in Canada - the trifecta of sludge. The VHS has no date on it. The film is about a post-apocalyptic world of 1996 (yes, the original title has it wrong!) when there's been a financial collapse and apparently a nuclear problem, because there are mutants, which aren't really explained by finances. The main female character is a mutant, though her only symptoms seem to be a faulty memory and bad acting. Filmed in a local park and one building - perhaps only three walls, and NO roof - it's a story of a couple pursued by people reverting to animalism before being rescued by a warrior that eats their dog. There's a sub-plot about cloning that gets dropped and forgotten. Mostly, there's talk. They have nostalgia for crappy cars. There's a recital of the poetry of Yeats! Nothing happens, slowly.

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