In a post-apocalyptic wasteland where all that remains is Morton's salt, Texas Instruments calculators posing as army-engineered navigation systems, and a Las Vegas that mysteriously generates its own power, only an actor of George Peppard's caliber can pull off a line like "The town's infested with killer cockroaches! Repeat, killer cockroaches!" What will happen in the final showdown when our weary heroes are pitted against a vile jammed door, armed with nothing but a crowbar and their wits!?

Two years after WW3 reduces America to a rubble strewn desert, a small group of survivors in California decide to drive a hulking military vehicle to Albany for no real reason. Along the way, they fight shotgun toting hillbillies, giant scorpions and flesh eating roaches. This is a terrible movie with some of the shoddiest effects I've ever seen, and a putrid script that bears zero resemblance to the source novel. Way too much random footage of Jan-Michael Vincent riding a dirt bike around.

The movie is pretty bad, but I'm subtracting extra points just for changing the book's premise into something so bland. The actual story would make for a pretty kick-ass film; a race against time, high stakes, more danger. While it was brave to try and recreate a trippy post-apocalyptic America with the available tools in 1977, most of it looks laughable. I also wanted to punch Jan-Michael Vincent in the face. Right in his stupid, smirking face. Punch him so hard his mullet would explode. Gah!

even though the gruesome George Peppard is in it, I have fond memories when I was a young'un of those carnivorous cockroaches, and it's with this biased childhood perspective that I rate this about fifty points higher than I normally would have.

Pretty silly stuff, although Vincent and Sanda are attacked by a giant scorpion and Winfield is devoured by mutant cockroaches so it's not a total loss.

It's been a LONG time since I've seen this, but there were some changes from the book that made this such a far less interesting propostion (our main character was originally a Hells angel on his chopper)