The group’s car is stolen, forcing them to proceed on foot the women are raped, there is infighting as well as clashes with other wandering groups of refugees, including a biker gang. ![]() “We have to fight to live, do you understand that?” John tells a child. Complete with an eye patch from an old war wound (could this have been an inspiration for Kurt Russell’s Snake Plissken in John Carpenter’s “Escape from New York” a decade later?), John leads the group across the countryside with clinical precision.Īnd he’s not afraid to kill, even a nice young couple in a farmhouse who won’t give them shelter. John (Nigel Davenport), an architect and former military man, heads out of London with his family - his wife, daughter and her fiance - joining forces with a wild young couple (the guy is good with a gun). Parliament seriously considers slaughtering half the population of London so the other half has a chance to survive. Cities in particular are vulnerable with no food, there is open looting and even cannibalism. Pollution and climate change have pushed the planet to the brink, and now a world virus is killing off all the grass, creating a global famine. ![]() The setup: The Earth is undergoing a perfect storm of self-destruction. And just as Gibson’s last three films as director - “The Passion of the Christ,” “Apocalypto” and “Hacksaw Ridge” (which is up for best picture and director at this month’s Academy Awards) - form a loose trilogy sermonizing on violence, so too does Wilde’s remarkable run in the late 1960s with “The Naked Prey,” “Beach Red” and the rarely screened “No Blade of Grass,” which plays for one time only at 7 p.m.
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