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Land of Doom

  • 1986
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 27m
IMDb RATING
3.7/10
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Daniel Radell and Deborah Rennard in Land of Doom (1986)
Earth has been ravaged by a nuclear war, and a feminist warrior is forced to join up with a soldier of fortune in her journey to find a rumored "paradise" as they battle gangs of rampaging bandits.
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Earth has been ravaged by a nuclear war, and a feminist warrior is forced to join up with a soldier of fortune in her journey to find a rumored "paradise" as they battle gangs of rampaging b... Read allEarth has been ravaged by a nuclear war, and a feminist warrior is forced to join up with a soldier of fortune in her journey to find a rumored "paradise" as they battle gangs of rampaging bandits.Earth has been ravaged by a nuclear war, and a feminist warrior is forced to join up with a soldier of fortune in her journey to find a rumored "paradise" as they battle gangs of rampaging bandits.

  • Director
    • Peter Maris
  • Writers
    • Peter Kotis
    • Craig Rand
  • Stars
    • Deborah Rennard
    • Garrick Dowhen
    • Daniel Radell
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    3.7/10
    857
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    • Director
      • Peter Maris
    • Writers
      • Peter Kotis
      • Craig Rand
    • Stars
      • Deborah Rennard
      • Garrick Dowhen
      • Daniel Radell
    • 21User reviews
    • 24Critic reviews
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    Deborah Rennard
    Deborah Rennard
    • Harmony
    Garrick Dowhen
    • Anderson
    Daniel Radell
    • Demister…
    Frank Garret
    • Purvis
    Richard Allen
    • Halsey…
    Aykut Düz
    • Orland
    • (as Akut Duz)
    Bruno Chambon
    • Man in Cabin
    Fatos Çelik
    • Village Woman
    • (as Fatosh Celik)
    Hülya Palanci
    • Village Woman
    • (as Hulya Palanci)
    Ellen Caborn
    • Village Woman
    Sondra Farrell
    • Village Woman
    Keith Bordie
    • Raider
    Robie Stein
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    Jason Koch
    • Raider
    Joseph Costello
    • Raider
    Sandy Goldman
    • Raider's Girl
    Barbara Goldberg
    • Raider's girl
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    • Director
      • Peter Maris
    • Writers
      • Peter Kotis
      • Craig Rand
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    6robfollower

    Deliciously low budget

    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
    2georgebobolink

    Shoop shoop, Land of Doom...

    Land of Doom definitely has one of the better titles going for it in recent cinematic history, but that's about all it can muster.

    Take your normal plot. Let's use some symbolism, and have it be a puppy. During the movie, you watch the puppy grow. There are exciting parts, like when the puppy chases some squirrels around, or sad parts, where the puppy whizzes on your favorite Duran Duran album. By the end of the movie, the puppy has become an adult dog, hopefully soon to spawn other puppies, AKA sequels.

    Land of Doom, unlike a normally aging dog, is basically a set of drunk dogs, wandering aimlessly, bumping into walls, and not only whizzing on your Duran Duran albums, but also the Mona Lisa and all vestiges of modern civilization. By the end, instead of a healthy, happy dog whom you love, you're stuck with a brain dead puppy who is busy chewing off its own tail. Pathetic, yes. But that's Land of Doom.

    Don't see this movie. Seriously, it just wants your soul. I mean, it doesn't even actually end. You know how a movie reaches the point where you know the big climatic fight is about to begin? In Land of Doom, that moment arrives, the heroes run away, roll credits. Thanks, movie!

    Slight redeeming factor: Jawas. There are Jawas in this film. Also, the end theme is so the exact opposite of a titular song for this movie that it has to be heard to be believed.

    Rating 1/10 - My eyes! My poor eyes!
    2movieman_kev

    The turkey from 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??
    4paul_m_haakonsen

    Watchable, but nothing outstanding...

    Of course this was a movie that I had never heard about. But as I happened to stumble upon the movie by random luck here in 2024, and it being a movie that I had never seen, then I would indeed sit down to watch the movie and give it a fair chance. Truth be told, though, I didn't exactly harbor any grand expectations to the movie, as it seemed to be a low budget apocalyptic movie that perhaps cashed in on something like "Mad Max".

    "Land of Doom" was watchable, sure, but it was hardly an outstanding or overly memorable viewing experience. I definitely didn't feel that I had been missing out on a grand cinematic experience here by not watching the movie before 39 years after it was released. It wasn't as if writers Peter Kotis and Craig Rand put together a particularly extraordinary script and storyline here. It was a pretty generic apocalyptic wasteland type of movie.

    The vehicle designs in the movie were laughable and very, very low budget. It was hard not to burst out laughing when you see the motorcycles on the screen, especially with those homemade Arts & Crafts modifications they put on them.

    Hardly a movie that will grace my screen a second time, but I can now check the movie off of the watched-movies list.

    My rating of director Peter Maris's 1985 movie "Land of Doom" lands on a four out of ten stars.
    3boblipton

    That's A Cheery Title

    Deborah Rennard and Garrick Dowhen make their way across a nuclear-war-devastated landscape as they search for a rumored paradise. There are rapists, cannibals and evil motorcyclists who wear black leather studded with shiny metal, as well as the odd Venetian mask for them to encounter. Why is it that leather-clad motorcyclists always survive, and there's plenty of gasoline?

    It's shot amidst the weird, weathered, rocky deserts of Eastern Turkey, which certainly has the look of a devastated landscape. It's odd to think this was once prime farming land, fought over by conquerors for three thousand years... which is why it looks that way.

    It's a pretty bad movie, but TCM added a bit of humor by noting that Miss Renard is a man, and Dowhen is a woman.

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    • Trivia
      Deborah Rennard and Daniel Radell's movie debut - but co-star Garrick Dowhen's final movie. 4th-billed Frank Garret only made this movie in his career (as of 2020).
    • Goofs
      The leader of the bad guys gets the fingers of his right hand cut off. Within a couple scenes, it's his left hand that is bandaged.
    • Alternate versions
      UK VHS version was cut 14 seconds.
    • Connections
      Referenced in Adjust Your Tracking (2013)
    • Soundtracks
      Harmony's Land of Doom
      Written and arranged by Carl Protho

      Performed by Jackie Lee

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    • Release date
      • May 1986 (West Germany)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Bad Raiders
    • Filming locations
      • Turkey
    • Production company
      • Matterhorn
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 27m(87 min)
    • Color
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    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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