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When the husband receives a work transfer from California to Japan, an American couple decides to make the journey by sea.
Unfortunately, it turns out that the ship on which they are travelling has the maritime equivalent of only three days left until retirement…
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Liz Kingsley is the insane genius behind And You Call Yourself a Scientist!
#1 by jose on June 9, 2014 - 11:13 am
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Watched many , many, many years ago, but I still remembered it very fondly. And this time the movie poster advertising don´t lie… I remember the feeling of “Intense suspense” very well…
Great review (as always, please never change!)
#2 by lyzard on June 9, 2014 - 7:36 pm
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Thanks, Jose!
I first saw this about two years ago, knowing very little about it, and was really surprised by it.
#3 by jason farrell on June 9, 2014 - 1:14 pm
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#4 by jason farrell on June 9, 2014 - 1:17 pm
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“aside from the Schadenfreude associated with the cast getting whacked in colourfully gruesome ways”
I never noticed that before, but I guess this makes disaster movies another candidate for the proto-slasher
El Santo, take note!
#5 by lyzard on June 9, 2014 - 7:37 pm
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Except that they take the philosophically opposed position of, “Whacking actors you’ve heard of for your viewing pleasure!”
#6 by El Santo on June 10, 2014 - 9:38 am
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Yeah, I’m chalking that one up to convergent evolution for now. Although there are a few old “body count at sea” movies like Phantom Ship and Terror Aboard.
#7 by lyzard on June 10, 2014 - 6:38 pm
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We should also note that for the first decade and a half, disaster movies had very modest body counts. The Last Voyage does have a significant body count, but it’s nearly all offscreen and just reported; there are only two onscreen fatalities. It wasn’t until the seventies that the spirit of “Whack ’em along the way” really kicked in, and terrible things started happening regularly to actors with billing.
(Come to think of it, that took over around the same time the first “real” slasher movies appeared. Hmm…)
#8 by jason farrell on June 11, 2014 - 2:47 pm
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And the 70’s disaster had “name” actors getting a propellor in the forehead, not some producer’s niece or the proto-Kevin Bacon — I guess that makes them closer in aesthetic spirit (sic) to the 90’s slashers
#9 by RogerBW on June 13, 2014 - 5:32 am
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Always interesting to see a film that dares to break out from the conventional mode of what everyone else is doing and try something new; often (as with The Town that Dreaded Sundown) it’s going in a recognisable direction, but not far enough to be the actual exemplar of the new form.