The Horror at 37,000 Feet is a 1973 horror film about passengers on a jet airliner being terrorised by an invisible demon in the cargo hold.
The made-for-TV movie was directed by David Lowell Rich (Satan’s School for Girls; Eye of the Cat) for CBS.
William Shatner, who ten years earlier had starred in the Twilight Zone episode “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet”, plays the lead role. Shatner – whose horror film roles include Incubus, The Devil’s Rain and Kingdom of the Spiders – described his character’s end in the movie as one of his “unique ways” of dying: “I get sucked out of an airplane while carrying a lit torch into the plane’s baggage compartment to try to confront a druid ghost.”
He has also commented: “Now there has been considerable discussion among th true Shatner aficionados about precisely which was the worst movie I ever made. And The Horror at 37,000 Feet does have its supporters […] I played a drunken architect who eventually finds his nobility by fighting unseen ghosts. Ghosts are very popular in low-budget films, by the way, because they can’t be seen!”
Other cast members include Chuck Connors (Tourist Trap), Buddy Ebsen, Tammy Grimes, Roy Thinnes, Jane Merrow (Night of the Big Heat, Hands of the Ripper), Darleen Carr, Lynn Loring, Russell Johnson, Paul Winfield and Will Hutchins.
DVD blurb:
“Fly the not-so-friendly skies in this frightening tale of survival at 37,000 feet! On a flight from London to Los Angeles, a wealthy architect (Roy Thinnes) and his wife (Jane Merrow) have rented out a jumbo jet’s entire cargo hold to transport a precious artifact — an altar from an ancient abbey. But they’re unaware of its deadly secret.
Aboard for the ill-fated trip are William Shatner as a drunken, cynical ex-priest; Buddy Ebsen as an arrogant millionaire; and Chuck Connors as the heroic pilot.
Not long after departure, crew and passengers alike face airborne jeopardy and supernatural horror as a demonic entity escapes from the altar, seeking to possess a hapless victim as well as seek revenge on those who would desecrate the sinister deity’s ancient ritual site. Fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a terrifying flight!”
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