This movie is included in the NIGHTMARE WORLDS 50 MOVIE PACK and, although sometimes confusing and disjointed, it is better than I expected it to be.
Scientists at a secret research lab in Idaho develop a time travel device. A handful of teenage volunteers travel 56 years into the future and find that the earth is a barren wasteland, apparently ravaged by some sort of ecological disaster. They decide that it is their duty to repopulate the earth after this disaster, so they return to the lab, pack some clothing, tents, and supplies, and zap themselves into the future just before the government seizes the research facility. Since the time transfer process causes kidney hemorrhaging in people over 20 years old, older people cannot make the trip.
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The movie is pretty straightforward up to this point, but gets a bit confusing after some back-and-forth trips through time. Toward the end, I wasn't sure where people were chronologically or whether some characters were just having flashbacks or possibly even hallucinating.
They try to wrap everything up in a Twilight Zone style ending that didn't quite work for me.
Due to the early 1970s influence of this film (independent youth, communal living, ecological awareness, mistrust of the U.S. government brought on by the Vietnam conflict) the movie ends up being sort of a cross between PLANET OF THE APES, EASY RIDER, SOYLENT GREEN, and THE OMEGA MAN.
This movie is rated PG, but could easily have been a TV movie with just some minor film editing. Keith Carradine is in it, but he is not the star. And it was directed by Peter Fonda!
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I have this on my qeue. I've seen a couple cool sci fi things recently like Clonus and escape 2000. I've got this and capricorn one and a few others.
I have this one on one of the Mill Creek 50 movie packs.
Fun yet as has already been said... Confusing.
I liked IDAHO TRANSFER. How about the weird little ending with the futuristic car and family?
I dare give it (7 out of 10 Stars)