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''Cruise Into Terror" (1978), AKA ''Voyage Into Evil''<br />
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==Summary==<br />
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An Egyptian sarcophagus that is cargo on a pleasure cruise ship has a secret - it contains the son of Satan, and its effects start to make the ship's passengers behave strangely. <br />
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==Details==<br />
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* Release Date: 1978<br />
* Country/Language: US, English<br />
* Genres/Technical: Thriller, Horror, made-for-TV<br />
* Setting: [[1970s]], Atlantic Ocean<br />
* Runtime: 1 hr 40 min <br />
* Starring: Dirk Benedict, John Forsythe, Frank Converse<br />
* Director: Bruce Kessler<br />
* Writer: Michael Braverman<br />
* Producer/Production Co: Aaron Spelling Productions<br />
* View Film: ([http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x225a0c_cruise-into-terror_shortfilms link])<br />
* IMDB Page: ([http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077382/ link])<br />
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==Ratings==<br />
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* Rated: (not rated) (equivalent to a TV-PG for mild 1970s TV-friendly Violence and Adult Content)<br />
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With haunted Egyptian artifacts on the bottom of the ocean and ship passengers possessed by the devil are just about as "Lovecraftian" as this made-for-TV movie get (in other words, no real connection to Lovecraft's work), but there's still some potential for some "pulpy" 1970s schlock fun to be had with this soggy take-off on the likes of ''The Omen'' and ''[[Rosemary's Baby (1968 film)|Rosemary's Baby]]'' as the basis for a Call of Cthulhu scenario - just slip an evil tome into the hands of one of the passengers (the crazy fire-and-brimstone preacher seems like a good candidate), add references to [[Nyarlathotep]], [[Nephren-Ka]], or [[Nitocris]], toss in a couple cruise ship bikini girls who find a cursed artifact in a Deep One city, and you might have something almost quasi-Lovecraftian as a result....<br />
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Review Links:<br />
* A Haunting on the Screen, ([http://www.ahauntingonthescreen.com/2013/05/cruise-into-terror.html link]) - (no critical review, but there are screenshots)<br />
* The Terror Trap, ([http://www.terrortrap.com/reviewsdatabase/c/cruise_into_terror.php link]) - "2.5/5 Fun TV thriller about a faulty cruise ship and the passengers who discover a sarcophagus under the sea... containing no less than the son of Satan! The cast has a whale of a time with the subject matter and while the jolts are few, this one is not nearly as bad as you may have heard."<br />
* Dave Sindalar's Movie-of-the-Day Archives, ([http://www.scifilm.org/musing3847.html link]) - "Well, the premise is pretty far-fetched, but that hasn't necessarily been a stumbling block for movies of this ilk before. However, the script suffers from an appalling lack of subtlety.... This is one movie that could have been better than it is."<br />
* David Churchill at Critics at Large, ([http://www.criticsatlarge.ca/2011/01/so-bad-its-good-cruise-into-terror-1978.html link]) - "...Turgid, terrible, pathetic, ridiculous and unintentionally laughable. ''Cruise Into Terror'' has become something of a cult classic because it is filled with bad movie goodness...."<br />
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==Synopsis (SPOILERS)==<br />
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==Notes==<br />
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