Three technicians emerge from an underground laboratory into a nuclear wasteland populated by hostile mutants. The familiar survival journey offers some scrappy future-world imagery, but thin incident makes this a deeper-cut apocalypse selection.
Nominated by @flabbergasted_jones
The club’s verdict
Acting
6/10
Plot
7/10
Effects
5/10
Dialogue
5/10
Rewatchability
3.5/10
“The lab's emergency drill has become permanent.”
@flabbergasted_jones, scored it 53
Synopsis and movie facts
Three technicians working in an underground laboratory discover that a nuclear war has destroyed most of the aboveground world. After a brief search for food, the trio find that gangs of murderous mutants want them for their next meal. Will the scientists be able to find other uncontaminated humans to rebuild civilization with, or will they all end up as mutant chow?
Released
1987
Directed by
Giuseppe Vari
Running time
90 min
Starring
Bruno Bilotta as Brad (as Karl Landgren)
Alex Vitale as Mutant Leader
Bjorn Hammer as Maury
Rosenda Schaschmidt as Nina, Mutant Woman (as Rosenda Schaschmidt)