kapelusznik18 ***SPOILERS*** You can't accuse the movie "Horror at 37,000 feet" of being an "Exorcist" rip off since it was released some 10 months earlier but it's plot was along the same lines of that head turning and pea soup spitting classic. In it we have defrocked pries Paul Kovalik, William Shatner, end up seeing the light in him saving a plane load of mostly non believers-like himself- in the powers of Satan and the occult by offering up his life-like the priest in the movie "The Exorcist" -to save them. This all stems for the remains of a 500 year old Druid sacrificial stone that was put on the plane by greedy architect and real estate mogul Alan O'Neill, Roy Tinnes, who want's it to be the cornerstone of his new high rise development.With the 747 stuck in a 600 mph tailwind and the passengers and crew members getting knocked off one by one from the evil that the Druid stone has unleaded it's former priest Kovalik, after gulping down at least a bottle of whiskey, who figures out what's the problem and plans to do battle with it before the plane and all it's passenger and crew crashes into the Atlantic Ocean. That's by creating a bonfire and keeping it going until the sun rises and finally puts the evil, like a vampire, to rest. There's also the what seems like Oxford educated, with a pronounced British accent, African brain surgeon, much like the real life Dr. Ben Carson, Doctor Enkalla, Paul Winfield, who provides Kavalik assistance in fighting the forces of evil loose on the plane.A good cast makes this really off the wall disaster movie worth a watch with the heroic captain of the plane played by former TV "Rifelman" and Brooklyn Dodger 1st baseman Chuck Conners as Capt. Ernie Blade together with Buddy Ebsen, of "Beverly Hillbilly" fame, as millionaire oil-man and former WWII fighter pilot Glenn Farlee who's trying to take control of the 747 and land it almost, until he was stopped by Capt. Blade, lead to disaster.

StuOz Disaster movie meets horror movie as supernatural events happen on a passenger plane.This might be just a TV movie but this is more fun than Airport 1975 and Airport 79 put together!1960s sci-fi stars William Shatner (Star Trek) and Roy Thinnes (QM's The Invaders) dealing with more out-of-this-world dangers in the early 1970s, that is what draws me to this movie. But if you don't view the film that way, well, you might not get such a blast out of it. The horror element is very mild, in fact the first 30 or 40 minutes of the flick are more about the quirks of the passengers and crew of the plane...not much horror.Produced by Anthony Wilson who was the story editor for all 83 episodes of Lost In Space. I just found this long lost gem of a movie on YouTube with a surprisingly good print. I hope others enjoy it on YouTube, if it does not get taken down.

AaronCapenBanner A familiar cast of TV veterans star in this entertaining, reasonably effective TV movie that stars Roy Thinnes("The Invaders") as an architect transporting an old Abbey altar on an airplane from London to L.A. that comes to demonic life, threatening all aboard, like William Shatner("Star Trek") as a former priest called back into action to defeat the evil, and Chuck Conners("The Rifleman") as the pilot. Buddy Ebsen("Barnaby Jones") and Russell Johnson("Gilligan's Island") costar.Interesting coincidences here: both Shatner and Johnson starred together on an excellent episode of "Thriller" called 'The Hungry Glass', and Shatner also memorably appeared on "The Twilight Zone" as a similarly tormented man('Nightmare At 20,000 Feet') Both Shatner and Conners would later costar in spoof "Airplane II: The Sequel" Just out on DVD, and worth a look.

Seb A waspish couple are flying to America with an altar from a convent. Travelling with them is a typical cross section of the public; a lone little girl, a woman obsessed with her dog, a black doctor in a bowler hat, a millionaire, a flirty cowboy and a model. Best of all though there's a priest who has lost his faith (Shatner!) and what seems to be his girlfriend.Not long into the flight some moss gets loose from the hold, you see that altar was sealing up some kind of evil spirit thing that looks like bubbling blob moss.When things start going wrong the passengers take about 30 seconds to decide that they should probably just offer the kid as a sacrifice, can the power of Shatner help them or will he just sit getting drunk through the entire movie while making cryptic comments about God? Although this film is pure hokum and the effects are seriously quite awful it's got a certain charm. Much like the plane though you may encounter some serious drag in the last half an hour or so.