... when I saw it in the cinema at the impressionable age of 12.
It has obviously dated terribly. I was relieved when an alignment of planets in 1982 didn't actually trigger worldwide cataclysms, and when Greece joined the EC in 1981 giving the "beast" 10 heads (now 27). Well actually I wasn't, having long forgotten this rubbish. The millennium came and went without a fuss, much like this movie's predictions.
I thought of this movie after all these years while reading Tom Holland's excellent "Millennium", about economic, political and religious upheaval around the end of the first millennium. Hal Lindsey has had many kindred spirits over the last two thousand years, all announcing the imminent end of the world.
If I'm ever incapacitated for any length of time I might watch this again for a giggle.
It has obviously dated terribly. I was relieved when an alignment of planets in 1982 didn't actually trigger worldwide cataclysms, and when Greece joined the EC in 1981 giving the "beast" 10 heads (now 27). Well actually I wasn't, having long forgotten this rubbish. The millennium came and went without a fuss, much like this movie's predictions.
I thought of this movie after all these years while reading Tom Holland's excellent "Millennium", about economic, political and religious upheaval around the end of the first millennium. Hal Lindsey has had many kindred spirits over the last two thousand years, all announcing the imminent end of the world.
If I'm ever incapacitated for any length of time I might watch this again for a giggle.