The title is the answer to what a woman say after she's transported to the future and finds out she is sterile from the transfer process; she says (as best I can remember after 30 years), "But that will mean the end of the human race!"
I have quoted that line every since; I can't begin to count the number of times. There were 10 people in the theatre, and it was the 3rd day after opening; no one I know has seen it except for the 9 other people I went with. However, like "A Boy and His Dog", it's a film you will never forget.
The ending is also something I've talked about for 30 years; it'll be nice to be able to show this to the many people I've told about it. (I think it should have been a Craftsman screwdriver, and not a Great Neck.)
Yes, dated, but a pleasure and haunted me for 30 years
Hey, Peter, if you're out there, I liked your unappreciated film.
Look, I like Fellini and Antonioni and DeSica and Scorcese, but this early, unsung effort by Peter Fonda has some eerie spell, and a haunting litte music theme that was ahead of its time. Yes, it has 1973 written all over it, so what. It's competently done, and I found myself ... transported. The ending is sick, twisted, funny, and hey, considering how the yuppies behaved in the 80s and 90s, I don't see it as altogether improbable.
It's not a popular film to like - even then it was hushed away by Big Money, even after Jay Cocks gave it a great review in TIME. The prognistication for man changing his greed was dire, and no one in SUV-Consciousness still wants to hear anything bad about their football team. I mean, 'Get With the Program! '
Ummm, to quote the little kid in the UltraLexus at the end, "What happens when we run out of them, Daddy?"
Brilliant
The 1 star is for the DVD which is appalling. It appears little more than video quality transposed to DVD which defeats the point. Surely someone can find the negative or a 35 or 16m print somewhere?
The film itself is of it's time, but probably brilliant. It's environmental warning is as pertinent as ever and it shows that there was plenty of early scepticism amongst the forever young/free love generation. The film is populated by barely clothed, nubile, erotic dollybirds (Isa's protruding tongue and peeling of a banana got me all of a quiver) and strapping young men. I thought there might be some other agenda behind the hiring of these unknowns but it's right for the story. The young scientists are emotionally immature and easily distracted (Karen with her ring) and their free love idealism soon receives a painful rebuke. Their lack of foresight over the possibilities of lingering contamination, especially in the light of their 'discovery', is puzzling. Idaho Transfer is a strangely serene and relaxing experience, a spell that even the introduction of aggression and inevitable tragedy cannot dissipate. It's disturbing ending, described in a review I read as 'ridiculous', is actually to my liking, brilliantly banal in the way life tends to be. The pessimistic metaphor is the skimming rock earlier in the film. We can only go so far in the natural order is the message. Subtly directed, this Paradise Lost set in the future is well worth investigating, but a better print is sorely needed.
It's hard to believe the significant number of EXORCIST rip-offs that the Italians produced so shortly after that U.S. hit's release. Here's another one. If the title "The Eerie Midnight Horror Show" confuses you, that's because it was created by some video marketing genius who thought it might lure fans of "Rocky Horror" or perhaps sound like some sort of long-appreciated cult classic. The title was created for an early 80s video release, but the film is known in Italy as THE SEXORCIST and showed up in theaters here as THE TORMENTED--not to be confused with the early 60s Bert I. Gordon film.
Like in several of the Italian takes on the William Friedkin original, the protagonist is an attractive young woman named Danila (sexy Stella Carnacina), an art student who nabs a 15th Century... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Stella Carnacina DVD Release Date: Released the 23 September 2003 Usually ships within 24 hours
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Star Wars meets A Wrinkle in Time in this adventure of an intergalactic war and one unassuming young man who holds the key to dimensional travel, the legacy of his mysterious adventurer father. Boyish Josh Charles is the lucky Luke Skywalker stand-in, a good-natured underachiever shocked out of his lovelorn moping when gorgeous guerrilla fighter Andrea Roth takes the battle to his bedroom. Rutger Hauer is the coffee-chugging freedom fighter who is roused from retirement to fill out the trio and face dimensional mob boss Stuart Wilson to settle the fate of the universe. This obviously low budget picture makes the most of limited special effects and striking settings--notably an elevator ride that turns into a free-floating mind game hanging in space and a knock-down,... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Krishna Rao DVD Release Date: Released the 28 April 1998 Usually ships in 24 hours
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I watched this film expecting something silly, but it turned out to be a very accomplished film. Taking a very bizarre concept (a bed that eats people), the director has managed to make a film filled with David Lynchesque surrealism that is equally intentionally humourous and frightening. The effects showing how the bed eats are very well done.
The movie (largely seen through the eyes of the ghost of Aubrey Beardsley, Oscar Wilde's favourite illustrator) is divided into three sections: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner. The first part sets up the fact that the bed eats people as a couple stumble upon it. The second part, also taking place in the "present" shows another group of friends coming upon the bed. Scenes of these new visitors falling victim to it one at a time are intercut with... More Info about this DVD Director(s): George Barry (III) DVD Release Date: Released the 04 November 2003 THIS TITLE IS CURRENTLY NOT AVAILABLE. If you would like to purchase this title, we recommend that you occasionally check this page to see if it has become available.
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That line occurs in the play, I believe, but not in the film. Or did I miss it? In any case, it doesn't really matter, since this is a production where the brilliance of the writing is only matched by the brilliance of the performance. I defy anyone to watch this merciless analysis of national character, at a particular moment in British history, and remain unscathed. It is painfully true, and painfully ugly. The war had been won, but everything else was lost. At the time the play was written, it seemed that nothing remained, bar grimy exhaustion. By 1960, however, spirits were recovering. The work remains a historic document, recording the bleakest and most bitter hour. This is certainly one of the purest records ever committed to posterity, and anyone interested in knowing what things... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Laurence Olivier - Brenda De Banzie Director(s): Tony Richardson DVD Release Date: Released the 19 June 2001 Usually ships within 24 hours
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ICE FROM THE SUN is a great flashing experimental Movie with a lot of Gore, Nudity and Violence.Director ERIC STANZE is the future of Indiemovies and you can list his name in one breath with Directors like DAVID LYNCH,DARREN ARONOFSKI,SHINYA TSUKAMOTO and TAKASHI MIIKE!The movie has got a lot of cuts(only in the opening Sequence there was over 400!!).Here in Germany we got a young talented Indie Director like STANZE, named Marco Knapp(he directed his first Movie MURDERER TALE, which is out on DVD from the German Label CMV LASERVISION, but only in german, sorry). Back to ICE FROM THE SUN:Its outrageous, stunning and unique like STANZES other Movies SCRAPBOOK and I SPIT ON YOUR CORPSE,I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE!! See it and love it like i did!! BUY IT, BUY IT, BUY IT!!! More Info about this DVD Director(s): Eric Stanze DVD Release Date: Released the 01 August 2000 Usually ships within 24 hours
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