I taped this film when it was shown on ITV3 recently, but somehow someone recorded over the end of it. Doh!
I saw up to the part where Minster Cathedral is collapsing around them, I guess it was very close to the end anyway. Can someone tell me how it ends please?
oh...ok then. when the abbey starts collasping, the french copper races to the hospital to turn off burtons life support. after doing this, burton comes back to life, and writes"windscale" on a sheet of paper(the nuclear power station in cumbria). the end.
I agree, it is a very frightening and somehow disturbing film - a modern horror classic, if you ask me - but I completely disagree on one thing, domino:
the dialogue, acting and special effects are supposed to be laughable by today s standards?
You have Burton, Remick, Ventura, Hordern, Jacobi, Andrews, Badel, Brett and so on and so forth - you call that laughable acting by today s standards? You do not mean that, do you? It s not even cheesy (which these group of actors even could manage! they do not have to, because it is a pretty cleverly written script).
Why is it that movies are considered ageing, because they are more than fifteen years old? The age of a picture does not have anything to do with it s quality at all.
Considering the effects - it is not an effects movie - however - the crash is pretty well done; get rid of the impression, that CGI could balance an unbalanced story. Mostly it is about three characters circling each other and a great riddle of the human mind which is not solved.
Great, do that! I did see it again yesterday, and I think that, although you can see that it has been made in an other time, it still is very athmospheric and special. This is what I liked about it. It is kind of unusual, isn t it? Hope you have fun, watching it again :)