Cataclysm
Cataclysm
| 01 January 1980 (USA)
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Police detective, Mitchell, investigating the death of a victim of a Nazi concentration camp discovers a nightclubbing playboy who has strange powers over women and is seemingly ageless.

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Unlimitedia

Sick Product of a Sick System

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SnoReptilePlenty

Memorable, crazy movie

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Portia Hilton

Blistering performances.

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Philippa

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

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Chase_Witherspoon

Devout Catholic (Clift) is thrust into a good vs evil battle of biblical proportions when her husband (Moll) publishes a controversial tome denying the existence of God, resulting in the Devil incarnate (Bristol) seizing the moment to rise against mankind. I've seen this film re-worked into the "Night Train to Terror" anthology, and that preview-style showcase is more than sufficient to convey the gist; in fact, seeing the entire movie adds virtually nothing at all new.Poorly constructed, each scene just seems to happen, without the connective tissue explaining its context, often just a random event without proper explanation (continuity is also dubious). Mitchell, Lawrence (who play detectives) and Moll provide some familiar comfort, but their presence can't redeem this farce from its own fiery pit of hell. Epic screen-writer Philip Yordan's wife Faith Clift is a total non-actress, her delivery of the dialogue so stunted and unnatural, it almost seems incredulous she could have appeared in other films (though on closer inspection, most attribute husband Yordan a producer credit).I won't label it awful (some of the set design and make-up effects are okay, and there's a neat little twist at the end), but it's painfully close to being an unwatchable turkey.

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babyjaguar

This is a lost jewel with a good storyline, but suffers from low production costs. Mitchell provided decent acting. The climax scene although it's bad editing, has a great ending. The actor's scream is great and haunting. Some interesting visuals, great effects one can could with "technocolor" process or flood lights. This film is definitely could inspiring for independent horror genre filmmakers and fanatics.ISpoilers: hand coming out of closet is classic, a cheap trick, but works! It becomes silly and reveal of foot as a goat's hoof, great stuff. This could be reworked into an interesting art house film. Fans of this genre should appreciate the visual antics and ending

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mikelcat

This ''film'' is seemingly a collection of unrelated scenes strung together by three different directors who must have hated each other and the business of film-making . Faith Clift the lead actress looks and acts like a dead zombie who's been lobotomized and then drugged , Charles (Richard) Moll , with the ever changing wigs looks and sounds lost , Marc Lawerence in a dual role is horrible in both ''roles'' and finally Robert Bristol the prissy Satan rep on earth is about as scary as whipped cream . The nightmare however does end , but only after you've suffered a wasted 70 or so mins of this mess .Fans of bad films will enjoy this , it could also be used as an example of how not to make a film .

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junk-monkey

This film has only one thing going for it and that is Faith Clift. I have not seen any of her other movies but she has entered my Pantheon of all time deliriously awful actors on the strength of this 'performance' alone. I have never before seen an actor get EVERY line of a movie wrong before. OK the script she has to deliver is pretty dire but every single word she utters is so misread it is brilliant. Almost expressionless she just points her piggy little nose in the general direction of someone else in the scene and delivers her lines as if she were reading them off idiot boards two words at a time. She's so gloriously inept she's worth the price of the admission alone. Incidentally, the old lady who says something unintelligible in the bookshop is also called Clift. Faith's mother doing a cameo? I would love to know the story behind the making of this film. Any movie that can get through (at least) three Directors and two Directors of Photography has more potential interest going on behind the camera than in front of it.The editing was atrocious, some scenes were cut off mid word (the version I watched was called The Nightmare Never Ends in the Nightmare Worlds boxset - this movie has, apparently, been re-edited several times).Some of the Music was pretty good, but as it was library tracks of Gustaf Holst's Planet Suite that's hardly surprising.

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