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Invite a few friends over to watch the end of the world!Plot:
A gas is let loose upon the world that kills anyone over 25 years old. | add synopsisNewsDesk:
Retro Slave: Roger Corman makes the apocalypse a real Gas-s-s-s(From QuietEarth. 30 July 2009, 8:29 PM, PDT)
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Prime Corman, more (17 total)Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Bob Corff | ... | Coel (as Robert Corff) | |
| Elaine Giftos | ... | Cilla | |
| Talia Shire | ... | Coralee (as Tally Coppola) | |
| Ben Vereen | ... | Carlos | |
| Cindy Williams | ... | Marissa | |
| Alex Wilson | ... | Jason | |
| Lou Procopio | ... | Marshal McLuhan | |
| Phil Borneo | ... | Quant | |
| Alan Braunstein | ... | Dr. Drake | |
| Jackie Farley | ... | Ginny | |
| David Osterhout | ... | Texas Ranger | |
| Juretta Taylor | ... | Zoe | |
| Michael D. Castle | ... | Burroughs | |
| Alan DeWitt | ... | Dr. Murder | |
| Bruce Karcher | ... | Edgar Allen |
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Rated R for some language, sexuality and drug content. (2003 re-rating)Parents Guide:
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Continuity: After breaking a road barrier, the car of the main character has 3 out 4 headlights broken, later they are intact, while it does not seem probable they would be repaired. moreQuotes:
Marshal's man: I say we run them out of townMarshal McLuhan: That's not the American way! Underneath those ridiculous clothes and destructive attitudes there beats a heart crying: Give me another chance! Who knows, they may be just around a dog lick from... good citizenship.
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"Author: Brian Washington (Sargebri@att.net) from Los Angeles, California This was a weird sort of science fiction comedy from "Professor Corman". This film pretty much reminds me of a spaced out version of the short lived show "The New People", which came out a year earlier. The whole idea of everyone over 35 being killed by a gas that didn't work on the younger population was a wild idea to begin with, but the surrealism of this movie even made it wilder to look at. Too bad that Corman's last film for A.I.P. couldn't have been a schlock classic like many of his earlier. At least on the bright side we get to look at a very young Cindy Williams, Talia Shire and Ben Vereen in what was one of, if not their first roles in a motion picture." Wonderful little films like "A Bucket of Blood" and "Little Shop of Horrors" were not "schlock." Using childish terminology isn't helpful in a review.