Def-Con 4 (1985)
Part of the Canadian exploitation movement. Def-Con 4 firmly instills itself into that post apocalypse / Mad Max groove as a small team of astronauts crash land on a nuclear decimated earth and are caught up in a war between gangs, cannibals and even ordinary people, whilst unknown to all a warhead is counting down to detonation.
I really enjoyed this. It's often clunky but is very watchable despite not really having the budget or overall imagination to really pull off a convincing post apocalyptic world. The feral characters don't really look that feral and it has that wild amalgamation of rip offs and genuine interesting ideas that so many films of this ilk don't and i was totally invested in it.
More often than not after watching a film like this it makes you want to watch their better known and more competent inspirations but after seeing Def-Con 4 all i really wanted to watch was Def-Con 5.
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