Imagine it's the seventies. You have a 70s haircut and cars are really big and made in America. Without warning, the sun sort of blows up, releasing a blinding, earthquaking flare. People start dying - but not you. And not the birds or the trees or the dogs, though they pretty much freak out. After someone dies, he disintegrates, leaving behind a pile of sugar in the outline of what had been his body. You're in the 1974 made-for-tv movie Where Have All the People Gone? A quiet disaster movie. Low-budget, no effects. And that is what makes it fun. Just simple storytelling, building uncertainty, an experiment in our fear of the end. Punctuated by piles of sugar.
I am always pleased when the people who stay alive in the face of cataclysmic movie disasters are capable survivors and give mankind a fighting chance. Seriously, if the world is threatened by...
I am always pleased when the people who stay alive in the face of cataclysmic movie disasters are capable survivors and give mankind a fighting chance. Seriously, if the world is threatened by...
- 5/21/2010
- Fox Movie Channel - Unvaulted
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