Cyclone

Cyclone (1978)

Ciclon

The terror storm was only the beginning... but the SHARKS would be the merciless end

An airplane goes down in the ocean during a storm and a few survivors find refuge on a small tour boat. Swept out to sea, these people slowly starve to death in the hot sun with barely any food or clean water. With no place to turn, the boat survivors resort to cannibalism to stay alive...that is ..until the rescue planes come to pick them up and the man eating sharks decide its time to eat as well.

Date of release
1978-07-21
TMDB
5.2 / 10 (28)
Runtime
1h 58m
Genres
Horror
Director
René Cardona Jr.

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Mexico

Cyclone is a 1978 survival horror film co-written and directed by René Cardona Jr., and starring Arthur Kennedy, Carroll Baker, Lionel Stander, Andrés García, Hugo Stiglitz, Mario Almada and Olga Karlatos. The plot follows a group of passengers from a crashed airplane who find refuge on a small tour boat in the ocean, and who eventually resort to cannibalism for survival. The film is purportedly based in part on Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat (1944).

Production

Much of the film was shot on or near the island of Cozumel, off the eastern coast of the Yucatán Peninsula.

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