Damnation Alley (1977) There's this giant post-apocalyptic super-truck that people drive across the devastated planet looking for other people. They spent most of their money on the truck, and some on blowing up that gas station, so it makes the movie look like an extended pilot for a Damnation Alley TV show, not something that should be shown in theatres. I met Roger Zelazny, author of the novel on which this was "based," shortly after it was released and his feeling toward it was chagrin. Where lesser movies might fill the time with shots of people walking, this one does it with people driving. Some giant scorpions and killer cockroaches make terrible hissing sounds. 3/10
OH I FORGOT!!! The guys in the truck find this French woman in Las Vegas, and later on they stop at the gas station they later have to blow up because of the hillbillies with radioactive sores on their faces, but there is a piano in the cafe there and the French woman sits down at the piano and plays a tune from Mr. Hulot's Holiday.
I saw on the new spanish-language DTV station a few minutes of Noche de los mil gatos (Night of a Thousand Cats) which I would much rather have seen than Damnation Alley. A young millionaire in a helicopter picks up women, murders them, puts their heads in jars and throws their bodies into his cat pit full of a thousand cats. Utterly bizarre and incoherent.
