Solar Flare
United States
2008
87 Min
Color
English
Synopsis
When math and astronomy whiz Riley (Chris Brochu) discovers that a massive solar flare is about to wipe out power grids across the globe, he must get word to America’s president while there is still time to prevent a total catastrophe. But when a powerful businessman smells profit in the imminent disaster, he tries to eliminate Riley before he achieves his goal. Tracey Gold and Michelle Clunie co-star in this tense sci-fi thriller.
Director
Fred Olen Ray
Director/screenwriter/makeup artist Fred Olen Ray hocked virtually everything he owned to make The Alien Dead (1978). Never mind that, as a graduate of the Brown University School of Engineering, Ray could have named his own salary in practically any job in his field: Celluloid was in his blood, and there it would remain from 1978 to the present. Often shooting four or more films per year, Ray occasionally turns up something that transcends the exploitation film genre and his miserly budgets; if you look at them objectively, films like Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers (1988) and Beverly Hills Vamp (1989) are heaps better than most of the dreck clogging up the video stores’ R-rated shelves. If nothing else, few other bottom-barrel filmmakers outside of Fred Olen Ray can boast an acting talent pool that has included the likes of Lawrence Tierney, Buster Crabbe, John Philip Law, Jan Michael Vincent, P.J. Soles, Britt Ekland, Martine Beswick, Julie Newmar, David Carradine, and Martin Landau… read more
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