Required Viewing for Film Students

WOW, Mad Max meets Ed Wood!! This catastrophe was playing on the MGM cable channel. This is what's amazing: this disaster of a movie had a real budget. There were 20 to 30 actors, a full crew, real FX with big time pyrotechnics, but the best they could do with the Road Warrior type motorcycles and cars was to put fake cardboard armor on them. Add to this really bad actors, bad dubbing for the nonenglish speaking actors, bad camera work, bad stunt work, bad script (? no script), bad sound track, and it adds up to a movie that is a classic Mystery Science Theater 3000 candidate.

But this movie has 2 redeeming aspects:

First, the caves they used in Turkey were really cool. There was a carved rock structure like a small version of the Monastery at Petra from the Indiana Jones movie.

Second, this is a perfect movie for film students to study to see what can go horribly wrong even if you have a reasonable budget, actors, and crew, but no skill as a filmmaker.