AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks

Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Borserie it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.

AnhartLinkin This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

SATerp I ran across this version, titled 'Idaho Transfer', in a pack of films titled 'Nightmare Worlds', (mentioned by another commenter), expecting something useful to put me to sleep at night. The movie is indeed spare, low budget and not the best acted I've ever seen, but it is haunting, perhaps because of the many unanswered questions the plot raises and never answers (not necessarily a bad thing), or maybe because of the shocking ending.The female lead is attractive, and it's not a hardship to watch her 'time travel' scenes, but her acting is pretty amateurish, though not out of line with other 70s grade B movie actresses, and perhaps explainable by the considerable shocks she experiences throughout the film, including her sister's death, and a revelation of a physical effect the time travel has had on all the travelers.The concept of a team of naive young researchers trying to save what they can of mankind, and coming to a bad end, kind of makes this movie a 70s cinematic version of the medieval 'Children's Crusades', which had equally poor results for the participants.There DOES seem to be confusion here as to what role, exactly, the female protagonist 'Karen' is to play at the end, though - fossil fuel, or dinner?

dragonlots This is not a movie for folks who don't like to think. Though the reason for the future crisis is not given, nor the fate of party headed for the coast, the few clues dropped on what is going on is interesting.There are also hints of WWII treatment of the Jews with people in cattle cars and the retarded turned out into the wilderness to die or be used. Not to mention the blonde future girl - images of the perfect 'master race'.Also mentioned was that the lab was torn down and they didn't know why. Add the images of the military taking over and them witnessing Karen using the transfer machine, makes the watcher wonder if the device was dismantled and put somewhere else and the idea born to use people as energy instead of fossil fuels.Though the film has many plot holes, the over all concept is interesting with its many literary touches mixed with Science Fiction elements. It is also a haunting film that sticks in the mind.

web-314 I like films that don't tell you everything. Unfortunately, this film tells you nothing. Once you get passed the main premise, nothing is explained, apart from "Do humans survive in the end?" and "Is there going to be a gratuitous boob-shot?". SPOILER QUESTIONS: What's the deal with the girl's father, why are the government investigating, why doesn't the government use the machine, were there bodies in the train, what happened to the other people who transferred, why didn't they bury a huge store of food and supplies so they could use it in the future, why didn't they ever try going to another time..? It is also nice to have a film that contains elements that aren't essential to the plot, and this film has them in spades, but a little more explanation would have been nice.The film is pretty well directed, and some of the main actors are okay (others are bad). The ending is really bad. It is like they wanted something really profound, but ended up with something very cheesy and almost nonsensical.Overall, I'd say the film is pretty interesting. It is a quiet builder. I got it as part of a 50 DVD pack called Nightmare Worlds.

Woodyanders Peter Fonda's second directorial effort following the excellent feminist Western "The Hired Hand" makes for an extremely atypical and hence compelling post-holocaust sci-fi survivalist message movie related in the form of a subtle, very serious and pertinent ecological parable concerning mankind's selfish, self-destructive nature and careless depletion of natural resources at the expense of our planet's well being. Twelve young scientists (a gawky, scrawny, long stringy-haired then unknown Keith Carradine among 'em) travel to the future to the year 2044 in order to avoid an impending apocalypse and start civilization afresh. The group hike across the dry, arid, desolate rocky terrain, bicker amongst themselves, discover a tribe of retarded third generation post-nuke survivors, and gradually go crazy, eventually degenerating into total murderous barbarism.Although marred by an awkward opening third, wildly erratic acting from a largely amateur no-name cast, occasionally tiresome and over-deliberate draggy pacing, and a few pretentious moments, this still oddly haunting, engrossing and quietly unsettling low-budget curio intelligently makes an important statement about the possible grim destiny of our increasingly callous and environmentally wasteful society. Peter Fonda's spare, low-key, suitably grave and understated direction ably creates a chilling mood of stark despair and horror, while Bruce Logan's pretty, picturesque cinematography offers a dazzling array of lovely, sun-blasted visuals, Thomas Matthiesen's terse, thoughtful, quite novel and idiosyncratic script presents a cogent dire warning future shock scenario with stunning clarity and concision, and Bruce Langhorne's eerie score mines a fine line in spooky'n'shuddery atonal rhythms. Not a complete success, but a nice, admirable, appealingly sincere and well-meaning addition to post-holocaust science fiction cinema just the same.