Disappointment for a huge fan!

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

it is the rare 'crazy' movie that actually has something to say.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

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.

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.

Although not as good as that terrifying Twilight Zone episode starring Bill Shatner, this movie is definitely under appreciated. The plot is strange with all the Druid rituals, but the oddness of the subject matter adds to the atmosphere. It takes place on a virtually empty airplane which I myself have flown on before. With a full plane, the whole thing would have been a chaotic mess where as this sparse cast allows for a bit more calmness and thought. The characters work together to defeat this demon or ghost or whatever it's supposed to be, but they gradually fall apart as the terror gets more intense. You will recognize most of the actors and they all turn in decent performances. It's hard to pick a favorite, but Shatner's drunken defrocked priest is the most interesting. The special effects are good at times, but occasionally amateurish due to working under a TV budget as opposed to a movie one. The whole package is very entertaining though. When I realized it was coming to an end I was kind of disappointed as I wanted more. Overall, the film really impressed me and after watching this it made me want to look into many more 1970s made for television horror movies.

you know it is going to be a really cheesy movie that is really bad, but at the same time it is also going to be fun to watch in the so bad it is good kind of way. I saw this movie a couple of times, but it has been a very long time since I last saw the movie so I only remember bits and pieces of this film, but what I do tend to remember is a rather bad movie, with a bad plot (a bit of brick is somehow haunted, bad acting (actors and actresses collecting a paycheck) and a very forgettable ending as I have no recollection of it at all. I do remember them trying to sacrifice a doll in a woman's stead, the plane somehow being stuck in the air as its fuel supply continued to dwindle and William Shatner being William Shatner. The rest of the movie is inconsequential as there are no scares to be had, but then what does one expect from a made for television movie that has a runtime of 73 minutes so they can take time off for commercials and such. If you can find it though it is good for some laughs.