The Horror at 37,000 Feet

1973
5.5| 1h13m| en
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A commercial-jet captain (Chuck Connors) has ghosts on board from stones of an English abbey being shipped overseas.

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Console best movie i've ever seen.
Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.
Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,
Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.
Bezenby I don't know what satanic cult my parents prescribed to, but I clearly remember being scarred for life with the vision of a real hair stuffed baby doll being offered to an ancient druid demon on a plane (and melting). Thanks for that, Mum and Dad. Although it might have been the babysitter watching that while you were out dealing crack.So, William Shatner is an alky priest on a plane losing his faith and hitting the hooch while a couple wonder if taking the ancient remnants of a druid altar on a plane to America is a good idea. Probably not as the druid demon goes nuts (in a polite English fashion that only results in about two fatalities, and a dog) while everyone screams and all that crap.Seriously, this one stuck in my mind for years, but the version in my mind turned out to be more freaky than the actual version. I had a vision of a huge hooded figure type scaring the crap out of the passengers, but that didn't happen. The baby doll thing did happen, and it is still kind of freaky, but the scariest thing is some blue screen work at the end.Still, it's worth a watch and is rather good for a TV movie. Grizzly still gives me the fear (seriously, what the feck was wrong with my parents at the time?) but this one is a cheese-or-rama.
Woodyanders An ancient evil slab of stone unleashes a powerful malevolent supernatural force that proceeds to terrorize the motley assortment of passengers on board an airplane flight from London to Los Angeles.Director David Lowell Rich keeps the enjoyably inane story moving along at a brisk pace, makes neat use of the luxurious airplane setting, and treats the blithely silly story with admirable seriousness. The endearingly cornball script by Ronald Austin and James D. Buchanan leaves no tried'n'true horror cliché unturned, with everything from spooky whispery incantations to a child's doll being used as an ill-advised sacrifice in order to appease the lethal demonic entity. The zesty acting from the able cast helps a whole lot: Roy Thinnes as dashing architect Alan O'Neill, Jane Merrow as Alan's snippy wife Sheila, Chuck Connors as rugged macho pilot Captain Ernie Slade, Buddy Ebsen as arrogant loudmouth millionaire Glenn Farlee, Tammy Grimes as feisty occult expert Mrs. Pinder, France Nuyen as sultry model Annalik, Paul Winfield as dapper physician Dr. Enkalka, Darleen Carr as spunky stewardess Margot, Russell Johnson as stalwart flight engineer Jim Hawley, Will Hutchins as happy-go-lucky cowboy star Steve Holcomb, and Lynn Loring as the fed-up Manya. However, it's the incomparable William Shatner who easily steals the show with his delightfully robust portrayal of cynical booze-sodden defrocked priest Paul Kovalik, who's certainly picked the wrong time to lose his religious faith. The spirited shivery score by Morton Stevens does the spine-tingling trick. A really fun fright flick.
Scott LeBrun 'The Horror at 37,000 Feet' has to rank as one of the lesser efforts from the era when the made for TV horror movie flourished. It has some great moments, but not as much atmosphere as one would like. Some viewers may appreciate the fact that the evil in this story is never really given a face, others may be underwhelmed. The acting is variable, the direction (by David Lowell Rich) competent if not distinguished, and the special effects entertaining enough, but mostly what this television movie delivers is laughter - I'm assuming most of it is of the unintentional variety. Be prepared for very dodgy accents, which is also part of the (mild) fun of this thing.The cast of big names includes Chuck Connors as intrepid pilot Ernie Slade, Buddy Ebsen as pompous rich man Glenn Farlee, Tammy Grimes as the self-righteous Mrs. Pinder, France Nuyen as passenger Annalik, the almighty William Shatner as cynical boozing ex-priest Paul Novalik, Roy Thinnes as architect Alan O'Neill, Paul Winfield as dedicated Dr. Enkalla, Will Hutchins as cowboy film star Steve Holcomb, and Russell Johnson as Jim Hawley, another member of the flight crew on a plane travelling from London to NYC. Unfortunately, Alan has ruined the trip for everybody by bringing back architectural artifacts - specifically, the remains of an abbey - in the cargo hold. Bad idea. Apparently druids used this place in a previous century. The passengers and crew are then subjected to supernatural phenomena including freezing cold and wind, a lot of ooze, and cracks opening up in the floor. It remains to be seen if these people will figure out how to survive before the plane runs out of fuel.In general, this is fairly entertaining, with Shatner stealing the show as the former religious man, treating us to some very Shatnerian acting. Grimes is also a total hoot as the crazed lady who seems to have all the answers. Director Rich does at least give this thing a good sense of pace; like many movies of this kind, 'The Horror at 37,000 Feet' clocks in at a trim 70 minute plus running time. Best of all is when the flight crew are making their way through the hold. The finale is likely to leave people busting a gut laughing, however.Worth a look if one is really into the TV horrors of the 1970s.Six out of 10.
Seb A waspish couple are flying to America with an altar from a convent. Travelling with them is a typical cross section of the public; a lone little girl, a woman obsessed with her dog, a black doctor in a bowler hat, a millionaire, a flirty cowboy and a model. Best of all though there's a priest who has lost his faith (Shatner!) and what seems to be his girlfriend.Not long into the flight some moss gets loose from the hold, you see that altar was sealing up some kind of evil spirit thing that looks like bubbling blob moss.When things start going wrong the passengers take about 30 seconds to decide that they should probably just offer the kid as a sacrifice, can the power of Shatner help them or will he just sit getting drunk through the entire movie while making cryptic comments about God? Although this film is pure hokum and the effects are seriously quite awful it's got a certain charm. Much like the plane though you may encounter some serious drag in the last half an hour or so.