(2001)
Reviewed By-Paul Cooke Director : Al Passeri Scripted : Al Passeri & Leila Gill Starring : Eric Bassanesi , Basia Watts , Rory Amadeus , Sinne Mutsaers , Giulia Bernardini & Francis Cetiner
With a budget saved from a pre film school paper round Director Al Passeri gets to show that the in flight movie can still be a disaster. You won’t need to pay premium for this economy class bargain buy , as the in store attendants will be quick to demonstrate all the applicably marked exits when making it your own personal ‘Flight To Hell’.
The cut and paste collage of psychedelic colours associated with Passeri’s work is ever present , along with the garish SFX splashed back ground glitz overlays. The outlandish opening appearance of a cardboard cut out car driven away by a real life occupant is incredulously amusing. Its arrival at the Las Vegas airport is as reminiscent as the start sequence of Director Umberto Lenzi’s 1980 horror plague Actioner and fan favourite ‘City Of The Walking Dead’. The pilot has a pre flight premonition nightmare just before taking off aboard the privately chartered rich mans play ground. Named Roulette One this jet plane is an on board casino and the occupants are soon to lose more than just their money.
As the automatic pilot takes a flight path through a strange neon cloud a green globular slime seeps into the planes cabin. Prepare for Fifties styled late night monster mayhem silly style and move over ‘The Blob’ , here comes ‘The Glob !’. This jelly like substance breaks the mould for extraterrestrial terrorism and with a fancy for human flesh is soon slurping over a female flight attendant. It’s not long before the icky creature is the progeny for a mutated life form as it is generated an electrical storm striking the outer hull of the aircraft. The expanding green goo soon starts attacking and corroding the crafts components as the crew apply a similar effect to the pockets of the passengers.
With the plane developing faults and crew members noticeably absent a search party checks things out , only to discover in the cargo hoarding a plethora of alien eggs that definitely do not comply to traditional farming regulations. A hapless staff employee , metaphorically sporting the John Hurt victim tee shirt , steps up to an embryo and is soon sporting the latest fashion in face hugging attire. The eggs hatch and out scurries an infestation along with a six legged lizard that definitely wouldn’t make it through the green channel check in at customs upon landing. This is one monster mother interloper with an attitude and a sweet tongue for the taste of cabin crew cranium.
There follows some tacky creature attacks and the odd splatter effect that includes an outrageously bad eye socket splatter moment that’s ‘cornea’ than most !. Next up is one in the ‘Sky’ for fans of Sigourney Weaver as a surviving female member of flight crew goes Ripley , armed with a makeshift flame thrower modelled on a school kit Bunsen Burner cranked up with propane. Time to light in flight !.
The ‘Alien’ influences are infectiously funny but so too is the obvious rip from John Carpenter’s ‘The Thing’. The invading organism infects the crew and even allows for the Captain to take a stand to deliver his Kurt Russell dialogue. Bodacious in its rapacious ‘borrowing’ from many a science fiction classic ‘Flight To Hell’ still nose dives long before the plane does , but armed with many a complimentary drink it’s worth undertaking as a one time ‘Sci Flight’.
Presentation : Full Screen 4:3 Release : Prism Leisure Coding : PAL Region 2 Sound : Stereo 2.0
Film: 2.5 BITCH SLAPS Picture: 4.0 BITCH SLAPS Sound: 3.5 BITCH SLAPS Extras: 0 BITCH SLAPS Overall: 3.0 BITCH SLAPS
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