If you're going to make a low budget film, especially about a nuclear war, one should try and hide the inadequacies of the budget. This movie, about two astronauts {there were 3, but one gets killed during the landing) returning to earth after a nuke war, does none of that. It's a terrible little movie full of bad acting and has a contrived plot. One of many post-nuke films to come out of the 80's. So what's horrible about this? Only everything. Steve Barkett can't act, write or direct. The story is ridiculous. So where were these three astronauts and why do they keep talking like they'd been in space for decades? They also seem like they want to kill each other. The ship crash lands WITH BARKETT STANDING. Another astronaut gets killed (how he dies, probably didn't want to be in this tripe, is beyond me) in the crash. The second survivor pops in and out for a while before disappearing. Even Sid Haig, the only actor in this mess I recognized, seems to be phoning it in. Forrest Ackerman is in it as a curator who's still running a museum while dying of radiation poisoning. No one else is dying of it, just him. Everyone in this looks too clean and Lynn Margulies nipples, which are popping out of her shirt for nearly the entire run, threaten to poke someones eyes out. Did I mention that the special effects stink as well? This is down on The Asylum level of terrible. Maybe even below it.
Review of The Aftermath
