Video – 1980’s surivivalist movie with all the cheese and bad acting of the ’80’s

Someone pointed this out to me and its too bad to not share.

National Guard biker gangs? Check!
Rutger Hauer lookalike bad guy? Check!
Stilted dialog? Check!
Alpha/beta male posturing? Double check!
Ridiculous gunplay? You bet!
Big teased hairstyles….on men? Yup!

How Jerry Ahern didn’t get a check for this is a mystery.

Without further ado, “Jack Tillman: The Survivalist”:

Oh, the early eighties….we thought we were so cool.

6 thoughts on “Video – 1980’s surivivalist movie with all the cheese and bad acting of the ’80’s

  1. I seen this a couple of months ago, I do love strait to video cheese and this was swimming pool full. Make me miss the 80’s. Also look on YouTube for ” The Day the Earth Moved.”.

  2. Thanks for the pointer on “The War Game” pretty gritty stuff and shows the ignorance of the threat at the time. Sadly I’m sure that ignorance is still around.

    Speaking of movies… I found Terminator Genisys on youtube and it actually looks decent. The only thing I’m worried about is a really twisted timeline. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62E4FJTwSuc

  3. I loved the Survivalist books. I first found them at the Schofield Barracks PX in ’81 or ’82. Ate ’em up as fast as I could find them. Fast forward 30 years. I typed Jerry Ahearn into the Facebook search bar and there he was. I sent a friend request. He wrote back wanting to know who I was. I told him I had admired his work from way back. He thanked me and we started writing back and forth. It wasn’t until after his death I found out he went to the same Chicago high school as my Dad did. Different times but I still thought that was cool. He was a nice guy, he appreciated his fans.

  4. I still have this movie on VHS setting around here somewhere. Now only if I had a VCR!!!!

  5. Wow! Watched this WAAAYY back when. Was in the Army with his cousin, another Railsback. *Spoiler alert!* Love the way he ends up humping the neighbor-lady nurse less than 24 hrs after all hell busts loose! Also,why the HECK was he drivin an imported 4X4 when he should have had a domestic?! 🙂

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