Cyclone (1978)

Original title

Ciclon

Directed by

René Cardona Jr.

Genre

drama film, action film, horror film, adventure film, disaster film, thriller film

Country

Mexico

Runtime

1h 40m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

5.2 of 10 from 28 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of airplane crash survivors take shelter on a small tour boat. As they drift at sea, hunger drives them to desperate acts.

bleaktenseclaustrophobicdesperategrimslow-burnunsettling

What happens

Cyclone (Spanish: El Ciclón; also known as Terror Storm) is a 1978 survival horror film co-written and directed by René Cardona Jr., and starring Arthur Kennedy, Carroll Baker, Lionel Stander, Andrés García, Hugo Stiglitz, Mario Almada and Olga Karlatos. The plot follows a group of passengers from a crashed airplane who find refuge on a small tour boat in the ocean, and who eventually resort to cannibalism for survival. The film is purportedly based in part on Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat (1944). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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