Survival 1990 (aka Survival Earth)
1985, Canada
dir. Peter McCubin
cast: Nancy Cser,
Jeff Holec, Craig Willams
Nuclear accidents
and economic collapse have caused the end of the world as we know it.
A young couple cling on, living as hunter-gatherers in the
wilderness, fending off attacks from marauders. They encounter a
young survivalist, and after initial hostilities, they become
friends.
A truly awful
effort, it looks like it's been filmed on a camcorder down the local
park. Very little happens, other than sitting round the camp fire,
discussing how they survived the holocaust, though these poorly
scripted and badly acted chats become weirdly compelling after a
while. Maybe it's just in comparison to the shoddy action scenes.
There are a number of head scratching plot elements such as the woman
being a mutant (and characters being able to tell this) but looking
completely normal (though she has no memory, apparently) and the man
explaining how he never knew his geneticist father and then his clone
brother turning up but being killed off before any resolution is
provided. Not the best use of 90 minutes of your life.
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