During the late 1980s and early 1990s our local video shop had loads of dodgy sci-fi vids to rent. Classics such as Arena and Robot Jox.
There was one film I saw that came from I’d guess about 1990 or a bit a later, a post-apocalyptic road movie that I’d like to see again for nostalgia’s sake.
My memories are sketchy of the film but here goes:
There was ragtag group of people travelling across a desert in a bus I think, pursued by bandits or some other ne’erdowells.
One of the group was a Japanese scientist.
The ozone layer had been burned off and hence people couldn’t go out in the sun much or at all.
An extreme example of the effect of this was a bright or bight, like lasers from the sky that threatened to blind them and/or kill them.
It is revealed at some stage that the Japanese scientist has a weapon that caused the ozone layer to be destroyed.
There are mutated people living in caves and one of the characters gives them cyanide tablets to end their miserable lives.
That’s all I can remember about it. Anyone have an idea what it was called?
No I’ve seen Damnation Alley recently, it’s not that.
I don’t think this film could have been made before 1987 and was more likely made around 1990. Low enough budget, might well have just been straight to video release.
I once rented a vid (cassette, not DVD) of a low-budget SF film – from the late '80s or early '90s – set in a future where everybody lives in a mechanized underground world brainjacked into a VR rig. (Like Forster’s “The Machine Stops,” with VR added.) The heroine somehow gets ejected from that comfortable world into the mutant-ridden wasteland on the surface. Can anybody ID it?
