Ravagers (1979)

Calificación de los usuarios:

3.9/10   

Director:

Richard Compton

Escritores:

Robert Edmond Alter (novel)
Donald S. Sanford (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

mayo 1979 (USA)

Género:

Ciencia-Ficción | Fantasía | Drama

Frase comercial:

1991: Civilization Is Dead. Violence, hunger and horror are rampant... There is no law! All that are left are bands of Ravagers.

Plot:

In a post-apocalyptic world divided between two groups called the Flockers and the Ravagers, an adventurer and his "pleasure girl" try to find their way to a rumored safe haven called the Land of Genesis. |

Plot Keywords:

Post Apocalyptic | Futuristic | Desolation | 1990s | Revenge

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Oddball casting does little to lift this lifeless movie

Reparto

Richard Harris	...	Falk
Art Carney	...	Sergeant
Anthony James	...	Ravager leader
Ann Turkel	...	Faina
Alana Stewart	...	Miriam
Woody Strode	...	Brown
Ernest Borgnine	...	Rann
Seymour Cassel	...	Blind lawyer
Bob Westmoreland	...	Hank
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Arch Archambault	...	Ravager #1
Olivia Barton	...	Mushroom woman
Billy Carmack	...	Thug with sickle
Brian Carney	...	Foy
Kim Crow	...	Flocker woman
Harvey Evans	...	Prison guard
Kurt Grayson	...	Coop
Cecily Hovanes	...	Grace
Gordon Hyde	...	Bert
Steve Lashley	...	Ravager #2
George Stokes	...	Bant
Andre Tayir	...	Prisoner

También conocida como:

El planeta de los buitres (Spain) [es]

Duración:

90 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color (Metrocolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

Mono

Clasificación:

Finland:K-16 | Australia:M | Norway:15 | UK:15 | USA:PG

Locaciones de Filmación:

Huntsville, Alabama, USA

Compañía:

Cinecorp Production

Trivialidades:

The "abandoned missile base" in the movie is actually the Alabama Space and Rocket Center museum and the "Rocket Park" in the back lot of the museum. The museum benefited from the filming of this movie because the display rockets had to be "aged" for the film and then later cleaned. The bi-annually cleaning of these outdoor displays is a major expense.

Oddball casting does little to lift this lifeless movie

Columbia Pictures barely released this end-of-the-world movie, understandably so. It's an extremely cheap movie, using abandoned industrial sections to depict the burnt-out and rusting cities, but mostly shooting on bland Alabama countryside during the off-season. Some locations are even used more than once, sometimes shooting at different angles, but also cutting long scenes into pieces. I got a kick out of how the ravager gang's long march through the countryside through the first third of the movie was obviously originally one five-minute walk through the same rock quarry!

Speaking of editing, that's what the movie suffers a bad case of. We never find out exactly what happened to screw up the earth so bad, we don't know the relationship of the guy Harris kills near the beginning of the movie to James' gang leader character (A brother? Gay lover? A good friend?), and there are garbled moments like the night siege at the abandoned house where what exactly happened to Carney's character is never made clear - especially since he was well-armed and doing well on his own before the movie cuts to an outside shot of the house, then to Harris and Turkel far away! (Well, I admit we DO find out... eventually.) Not to mention how the background of Harris' character and his relationship to the various tribes/gangs in the area seems especially unclear.

But what really kills the movie is how utterly boring it is, with little action, but also scenes that serve no real purpose, like how Seymour Cassel's character is introduced before suddenly being removed. Certainly, seeing people like Richard Harris, Art Carney, and Ernest Borgnine in an end-of-the-world movie is lightly amusing for a few minutes, especially when you see them shooting or beating the crap out of people with the vigor of people half their age! But even that gets old fast. To save you from falling asleep, should you decide to see this movie, think about this: Columbia advertised this 1979 movie taking place in 1991. Yet Harris' character at several points indicates that the whatever-disaster took place when he was a boy. If you figure that one out, let me know!