Christmas Eve thriller starring Ray Liotta at his psycho best, TURBULENCE (1997) — Friday Night WTF! — $5
December 20 : 9:15 pm – 11:00 pm
Friday Night WTF screenings are cheap, weird, and out of control! Cult trashterpieces, so-bad-they’re-good crapfests, movies that make you ask “What the hell am I watching?!” — we’ve got ’em all on Friday night.
“A 100-minute thrill ride featuring an unhinged Liotta performance full of psycho charmer grace notes…PLUS IT’S A CHRISTMAS MOVIE” -Joe, Letterboxd
Snowstorms, long delays, flu germs flying around. No one likes flying during the holidays. But at least there isn’t a charmingly seductive yet viciously psychopathic serial killer lurking amongst your fellow airplane passengers…or is there? In TURBULENCE, some last-minute Christmas Eve passengers board a cross-country flight that will change their lives forever…if they survive. For flight attendant Teri Halloran (Lauren Holly), it’s a plane ride like any other—with only one difference: This time they’ll be carrying two very special passengers—an armed robber named Stubbs (Brendan Gleeson) and murderer Ryan Weaver (Ray Liotta, chewing every bit of scenery all the way from New York to Los Angeles)—both handcuffed, shackled and escorted by top security agents. But when Stubbs slaughters one of his escorts and manages to break free, the balance of power suddenly changes hands. And if a couple dangerous criminals weren’t problem enough, the massive 747 also happens to be heading directly into a terrible storm!
A flop upon its initial release, TURBULENCE lives on as perhaps the single-most nutso, go-for-broke entry in the surprisingly robust Die Hard-sploitation subgenre. Despite being set almost entirely on a commercial airliner, TURBULENCE ups Die Hard‘s Christmas ante, while delivering a villain that tops the scenery-chewing magnificence of Hans Gruber. While it failed to light up the box office, TURBULENCE became a staple of late-night pay cable and managed to spawn not one but two direct-to-video sequels, including the legendarily silly Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal. So please buy a ticket, so we have an excuse to inflict the over-the-top ridiculousness of the entire Turbulence trilogy upon you!
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