Land of Doom

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There isn't even anything for a "so bad it's good" vibe, it's just slow, boring, poorly acted, with barely any action. It's a lame Mad Max knock off with nothing to show for it OTHER than a truly out of place disco-ish soundtrack that does not fit at all but manages to be hilarious in how awful it is. Find the music, SKIP the movie.

I like it this movie !! it 's so good and perfect And I like the characters Harmony and Anderson But I think turkey is not a good palce to produce this movie

For some reason never explained, half of the earths population go mad and decide to wear leather for the rest of their lives. The others are either really bad European cannibal actors, or the posh one from AWOL (or Lionheart), and some bloke who is acting about ten years younger than he should be. These leather clad people pillage villages and just run about being downright rotters. Having seen Mad Max and any other post apocalyptic movie before 1985, the heroes go on a quest to defeat the uber-leather villain. We can single this guy out because he has the wild hair and a mask. It's pretty vile stuff, with no one really having a clue whats going on, just riding round with some weird frame on their bikes and cars looking foe something thats never explained. The writers couldn't have had a clue either, because the ending is just awful. The only reason why this film did not get a one from me is because it keeps you guessing as to how people are clean shaven and also how the lead keeps her hair looking so god....

I'm puzzled why Turner Classic Movies decided to air this movie during their weekly late night Underground presentation, because I really can't see it appealing to anybody, even if the viewers have a taste for B movies and the post-apocalypse genre. I admit that the look of this particular genre entry does have a unique backdrop, being filmed in the deserts of Turkey, which does add a little effective bleakness to this world. But apart from that, I am hard pressed to think of anything positive to say about this movie. There's almost no plot - most of the movie is devoted to the two lead characters wandering around and having encounters that add absolutely nothing interesting or necessary to the story, or showing the bad guys killing innocent people for no apparent reason at all. In fact, the movie doesn't even have a proper ending, concluding on a note that feels extremely unfinished. The characters are extremely weak, and are understandably made even worse by the I-don't-care attitude of the actors. There is hardly anything in the way of production values, often feeling that scenes were set up and shot as quickly as possible without any thought to adding anything to the scenes to make them stand out. As for action, it is absolutely routine and boring, that is when it doesn't show off some of the worst editing you've ever seen in an action movie. Maybe TCM decided to show this movie during late night so that it would help insomniacs to fall asleep.

Director: Peter Maris Cast: Deborah Rennard, Gerry Dowhen, Daniel Radell Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller. Throw in a bunch of explosions, more cool leather costumes than you can shake a stick at, some awesome Turkish desert locations and rad-tastic old cars outfitted for combat Mad Max style and you can see how this one hits all the right notes... so long as you look at it from the proper skewed, underdeveloped perspective. Its hilarious. Land of Doom is dumb in every way a movie like this should be dumb, but it's pretty entertaining if you're in an undemanding mood and hankering for leather, explosions, flamethrowers and guys with metal arms and face plates. Deliciously low budget . I had fun with it. 6/10

In a poisoned post-apocalyptic world, marauders destroy all the good that is left. Harmony (Deborah Rennard) survives a raid which devastates her village. She encounters wounded warrior Anderson who is being hunted by ruthless raid leader Slater. She distrusts him but joins him anyways. This is a straight up B-movie. The acting is bland. Rennard lacks charisma. Usually, this type of movie would try to sex her up. I can give it points for making her functional as a post-apocalyptic survivor rather than a bikini-clad killer. She tries to be seductive in one scene and it is so awkward. There is barely any chemistry between the two leads. Mostly, I like the Turkey locations. The style is somewhat silly. I don't mind the simplistic plot. It's a bit boring but it's not the worst.

Sure its cheap, harebrained and badly overacted. But its also the Rosetta Stone of Mad Max 1980's movies , Scripted for now long forgotten movie audiences (Turkish, American & Euro). That are now faced with crises upon crises finding little solace in bloated budgeted and just as badly acted films that now get the media corporate stamp of approval of an IMDb 8.5 ,but oddly never a 7 or 7.5 Enjoy the Land of Doom for what it is and what its not. This movie is a rare look into the ancient 1980's . Movies of this type used to stock the particle board shelving of now long dead & paved over Video Rental Stores stocked with thousands of VHS scrolls of now long forgotten gems like Land of Doom. How many times will this movie be resurrected from the dead , maybe a dozen times a decade on late night antenna T.V? Its really worth a watch if you are privileged to see it once again. A less than million dollar budget & Puffy-hairdo leather clad Road Warriors of the Anatolia Highlands . The Age of Reagan Innocence will never be forgotten.

Yes there are a lot of bad films like this. Yet this still stands tall as a bad film even in bad company. This is a junior high school level Mad Max/Star Wars rip off. This kind of hybrid rip off/inspired pulp filmmaking was done my Turkish filmmakers for years with a crazy energy to equal some of the most mondo of Japanese and Italian movies. Sadly, though this features at least one Turkish star in a minor supporting role, this movie's "creative" force Maris doesn't have much of a clue about how to choose or direct actors or how to stage a fight scene or do action. The two leads both have U.S. TV credits and can't sustain any interest in a feature, the stunts could mostly be performed by your grandmother and done just as well. The pacing is lifeless the costumes and almost everything about it seems fake and thrown to together at the last minute. There are some large scale explosions--most of which seem to be big gas explosions and they hold off the shots long enough that you can see the explosion didn't really blow anything up. There is at least one scene of a bad guy screaming the hero's name in rage, so they don't forget to include that. The main villain is pretty skinny for a guy who is supposed to be a muscle man. He had a sort of Phantom of the Opera mask on half of his face and in his longest dialogue scene speaks with a lisp. Sadly this type of funny bad moment doesn't happen enough to make the film a guilty pleasure. The real life locations in Turkey's Capodocia are fascinating and only occasionally seen on film, but besides that this is a wasteland on all other levels. Best so-bad-it's-good element is the hilarious end title song and generally awful music score. How director Maris managed to keep making films after this I don't know, I'd hope he got better, but I haven't seen any of the rest to say for sure. But this is really badly done. I suppose the only other way to describe this film is to say it's the type of film CANNON did too often, only much worse than even the worst of those. It's a waste because if he had just gotten some better actors and then let some real Turkish directors make the film it could have been fun. Turkish pulp cinema is a vanished thing and this does give just a very small taste of what the world is missing. If you can only imagine this film done with energy and lots of stolen music from other films and even occasionally stolen footage you'd have some hint. Seek out the few remaining real Turkish pulp cinema. Sadly most of the films were destroyed to reclaim the silver used in the prints, at a time when pop culture films stopped being popular in Turkey

In a sort of Sweeded version of the Mad Max films, Harmony (who really dislikes being touched) and Anderson roam the Turkey landscape chased by an insipid ragtag group of post-apocalyptic 'ruffians' . Longing to have a budget as big as say a 'Hell comes to Frogtown' sequel this film is marginal more silly/awful than any such film(s). The bikes alone are utterly ridiculous, not to mention the do-it-yourself make-up, the worst Frenchman impersonation since Holy Grail (but unintentional this time) and make-shift Star Wars-esque creatures. If I'm making this film sound good in any way, shape or film, I'm sincerely sorry. It's not even good as a drunken guilty pleasure film. And this was somehow based on a book, how??