An astronaut, known only as The Survivor, returns from space only to find Earth a desolate, post-nuclear wasteland. Spending the next ten years searching for others, he finds rumors and signs of a hidden underground city. He finds a woman who claims to know where the city is, but she is kidnapped before she can tell him. Desperate to locate this hidden remnant of humanity, he begins his pursuit of her captors.
Practical Effects
Junkyard production design that somehow cost money.
Acting
Richard Moll's villainous eyebrows deserve their own credit.
Director
Michael Shackleton
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in South Africa during apartheid sanctions, explaining why it feels like a parallel universe where emotion was illegal.
This bombed so hard it basically ended director Michael Shackleton's career; he made one more film in 1990 then vanished entirely.
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