Director Corman's legendary ability to take advantage of every small circumstance to make low-budget films that appear to have cost real money is stretched to the limit in this Fellini-like retrospection. The apocalypse arrives in the form of a nerve-gas leak from a plant in Alaska that
speeds up human metabolism to the extent that all people over 25 are goners. Conservative kids take over Texas, turning the territory into a police state, in one of many anomalous occurrences. Young Corff and Giftos, faced with the betrayal of youth
by youth, gather four friends and depart for a
commune of the like-minded, located in an old pueblo in New Mexico. Along the way...
Released:
1970
Rated:
GP
Length:
79 mins