Reviews filed under If They Push That Button.

THE ALPHA INCIDENT (1977)

“The only time I stay in one place this long is when I’m in bed with a chick, or just sleeping.”  The government finds some type of substance on Mars, and a bunch of lab scientists determine it is dangerous to the human race. Someone makes the wise decision to ship the substance via train to Denver, Colorado, with only a single guard. A bumbling train worker contaminates himself which ....

WHEELS OF FIRE (1984)

Wheels of Fire is everything (yes everything), which you would hope to find in a C-grade Mad Max rip-off. Post-apocalyptic wasteland, baggy sweatpants, characters with stupid names, explosions, explosions, leather, cars with rusted metal welded all over them. The list goes on and on. Obviously a Phillipean made production, it's far exceeds the usual so-bad-it's-good fare. Starring Playmate Lynda Wiesmeier who was in some other 80s junk and a ....

CITY OF THE WALKING DEAD (1980)

There's a town, and within that town is some type of radiation leak that only affects a single plane in the air. When the plane lands zombies covered in ground beef emerge. Terror follows. Well done Italio-horror by veteran Umberto Lenzi. Although extremely dated and foreign, it's still good zombie entertainment. It has good special effects, a good enough story, acting, camera work, plenty of gore, boobs ....

MASSIVE RETALIATION (1984)

Yet another mid-80s post-apocalyptic somewhat realistic nuclear scare film. Misguided, misleading (based on box art), and in general miserable, Massive Retaliation totally missed any effective commentary about war and nuclear technology it could have had in favor of blazing guitar solos, totally unnecessary character development, out of place political diatribes, and "Bobcat" Goldthwait as a somewhat serious character. ....

TESTAMENT (1983)

One of the best post-apocalyptic films around, Testamentwas lauded for its realistic, non-sensational view of life after the bomb drops. Depressing scene after depressing scene were used to traumatize children in classrooms all throughout the 80s and you'll no doubt remember at least parts of this movie from its many cable airings. Young Kevin Costner, Lucas Haas and even William Devane are along for this tasteful yet totally ....

THE CHILDREN (1980)

Made at the height of nuclear scare films, The Children is unique in the respect that it is more of a horror movie rather than a survivalist/post-apocalyptic thing. A busload of kids get gassed and become radioactive. They proceed to kill adults as quickly as possible by touching them. A lone sheriff takes things into his own hands and murders all the children with guns and knives. ....