Survivor (1981)

Survivor: Directed by David Hemmings. With Robert Powell, Jenny Agutter, Joseph Cotten, Angela Punch McGregor. When a pilot becomes the sole survivor of an airliner crash that kills over 300 people, he works with a psychic and a priest to determine who is responsible for the incident and pacify the vengeful souls of the victims.

“u0026quot;The Survivoru0026quot; is a bizarre, incomprehensible attempt at a horror story that barely registers as that or as anything at all.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe bits that one assumes are meant to be scary are merely confusing and come out of nowhere. The soundtrack signals to you that youu0026#39;re supposed to be scared, pummelling you with frantic music, but this is merely irritating since you canu0026#39;t understand what, if anything, you are supposed to be scared by.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe plot is actually fairly simple. So why is it so confusing? Itu0026#39;s about a pilot who survives a plane crash that kills everyone else on board. He is visited by some kind of clairvoyant or something, played by Jenny Agutter, who is about as mystical in this role as the CEO of Wendyu0026#39;s was when he appeared in that training video (Youtube it). Her role in the plot is obvious on paper (how else is the movie going to get the supernatural bent going?), but when handled this badly, it becomes confusing and you wonder what she is there for.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe ending, I admit, was clever. Itu0026#39;s just that everything that led up to it was so bad that it was completely wasted, like the rest of the movie was.”