this notoriously hard to get ( at least legitimately ) movie follow the travail of five nuke apocalypse survivor in the late 1970s . their task be to drive their armored personnel vehicle cum winnabago from bakersfield ca to albany ny . on the way they stop off in vega and salt lake city and detriot bumping into maniac mutant cockroach and some radioactive hillbilly along the way . 99 % of the time the sky be a swirl orangish red that transfer it gatorade hue to most sequence in this movie . the location be all dust and sand and rock . this be after all damnation alley and the earth have be tilt off it axis . an absolute trash b movie that i be sure many of those associate with would rather forget and it be nonetheless hugely compel . after view you can appreciate the cult classic status of this film and yet to not be entirely sure why that be so .