DVD Pick of the week: DAMNATION ALLEY (Scream! Factory)

This sci-fi adventure yarn, boasting a great title, was to be Twentieth Century Fox’s big Christmas notice for 1976, but production delays bumped it to summer ’77, where it was promptly usurped by its own studio’s Woman Wars.

Following a nuclear holocaust, the Earth is now a desolate, godforsaken wasteland plagued by giant scorpions, lallapalooza cockroaches and cheesy rear-projection special effects. A small group of survivors attempts to reach the safe and sound haven of Albany, NY, traveling in a super-charged, futuristic, all-terrain vehicle known as the “Landmaster” (benevolent of a Winnebago/ Humvee on steroids).

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