My Impressions

I just got this the other day on the "Midnite Movies" flipper disc shared w/ "Wild in the Streets." After watching that film, I figured, "what the hell?" and flipped it to "Gas-s-s-s."

The initial animated opening was funny. A bulked-up general and an old fart of a senator making a presentation to a bunch of Eskimos in Alaska for some chemical warfare testing compound. Someone hands the senator what he thinks is a bottle of christening champagne. But the blind old bat actually had what looked like a chemistry flask. At lease we know where the gas came from!

After the credits, the live opening left me a bit bewildered. The scene where two cops are chasing the hippie dude across what appears to be a college or university campus. You know, where he finally alluded them by ducking into a chapel and pretending to be a priest.

While he's running, he's holding a crossbow. What I'm still not knowing is whether the cops were after him for just having the crossbow or whether he used it or was planning to use it to commit a crime. Guess we'll never know!

As for the rest of the film: It ranging from weird to boring to downright silly! The most noted example of the latter case was the scenes at the country club w/ the Hell's Angels driving golf carts. Gimme a break!

I suppose there was maybe one last scene gave me a bit of a chuckle. When they arrive at the Indian trading post. The hippie dude goes into a phonebooth, drops a dime in and dials "0." Then we hear, "operator?" He asks, "where were you when there was actually someone left to call?!"