Hall Bartlett

It purportedly spoofs the airplane-based disaster movies so popular at the time of its 1980 release, but much of the main plot (a scarred war pilot must attempt to land a passenger jet during a storm when the crew falls ill) and even some specific scene are lifted from the little-known 1957 B-movie Zero Hour! ; it simultaneously satirizes one particularly obscure film, ’70s disaster films, and every bad B-movie you’ve ever seen.