In a post-apocalyptic world, a group of survivors travel and find other settlements in huge custom designed all terrain vehicles.In a post-apocalyptic world, a group of survivors travel and find other settlements in huge custom designed all terrain vehicles.In a post-apocalyptic world, a group of survivors travel and find other settlements in huge custom designed all terrain vehicles.
- Awards
- 1 nomination
Robert Hackman
- Colonel
- (as Bob Hackman)
Terence Locke
- Air Policeman
- (as Terrence Locke)
Roger Creed
- Mountain Man
- (uncredited)
Ulf Kjell Gür
- Musician
- (uncredited)
Murray Hamilton
- Gen. Landers
- (uncredited)
Daina House
- Playboy Centerfold
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaThe infamous armor-plated "killer cockroaches" are in fact Madagascar "hissing" cockroaches. In reality, they are three-inches long (as seen in the film), and are quite benign. They make the "hissing" sound to communicate with one another, and when they are agitated. Live roaches were used in close up shots, but rubber mock ups were used in the wide and group shots.
- GoofsIn the sequence with Tanner on the motorcycle with a female mannequin in the desert with the giant scorpions, in some shots it is a real woman instead of a mannequin on the motorcycle with Tanner.
- Quotes
Maj. Eugene Denton: Tanner this is Denton! This whole town is infested with killer cockroaches. I repeat: KILLER COCKROACHES!
- Crazy creditsOpening credits prologue: 123rd STRATEGIC MISSILE WING TIPTON AFB, CALIFORNIA
- ConnectionsEdited from When Worlds Collide (1951)
- SoundtracksWill the Circle Be Unbroken
Christian Hymn (1907)
Lyrics by Ada R. Habershon
Music by Charles H. Gabriel
Performed by Jan-Michael Vincent and Paul Winfield
Featured review
This notoriously hard to get (at least legitimately) movie follows the travails of five nuke apocalypse survivors in the late 1970s. Their task is to drive their armored personnel vehicle cum Winnabago from Bakersfield CA to Albany NY. On the way they stop off in Vegas, Salt Lake City and Detriot bumping into maniac mutant cockroaches and some radioactive hillbillies along the way. 99% of the time the sky is a swirling orangish red that transfers its Gatorade hues to most sequences in this movie. The locations are all dust, sand and rock... this is after all Damnation Alley and the Earth has been tilted off its axis. An absolute trash B movie that I'm sure many of those associated with would rather forget, it is nonetheless hugely compelling. After viewing you can appreciate the cult classic status of this film, yet to not be entirely sure why that is so.
- delticcompon
- Mar 30, 2006
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- Also known as
- Straße der Verdammnis
- Filming locations
- Meteor Crater, Barringer, Arizona, USA(South rim of crater - Billy's hideout)
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- Budget
- $7,200,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 31 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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