It may be hard to believe but this movie was to be the big summer tentpole of 1977, Star Wars was suppose to be nothing bar a cheap little sci-fi profit maker.

Easily one of the silliest and most slapdash apocalypse effort's a major studio had ever released Damnation Alley is a catalogue of half-finished effects, completely illogical plot points and a all round general rape of the source book on which its based (the book BY Roger Zelazny was a dark gritty affair well worth a read).

How people like George Peppard and Oscar nominated Jackie Earle Haley got roped into this i'll never know, their very facial expressions in each scene scream "what the hell am I doing in this"

So many idiotic moments.

Giant Scorpions roving the desert, forgivable if they didn't look worse then the effects in a low budget art-school movie
The fact that for some bizarre reason Las Vegas is completely untouched by the holocaust and the only person left is a female dancer
Flesh eating cockroaches, which don't even raise a B-Movie smile
The truly horrific ending with feels like its been pulled straight from the Walton's

Very little in this movie works, indeed the only real plus point would be the hulking custom Landmaster vehicles the characters use to drive across the nuclear landscape of the former USA.

I would like to watch it again to get the train wreck details down but its never had a DVD release that I know of (i think its getting one this year thou)

Why is Hollywood so inept when it comes to making a decent Apocalypse movie it puzzles me.

D .......only the Landmasters save it from an F