***SPOILERS*** You can't accuse the movie "Horror at 37,000 feet" of being an "Exorcist" rip off since it was released some 10 months earlier but it's plot was along the same lines of that head turning and pea soup spitting classic. In it we have defrocked pries Paul Kovalik, William Shatner, end up seeing the light in him saving a plane load of mostly non believers-like himself- in the powers of Satan and the occult by offering up his life-like the priest in the movie "The Exorcist" -to save them. This all stems for the remains of a 500 year old Druid sacrificial stone that was put on the plane by greedy architect and real estate mogul Alan O'Neill, Roy Tinnes, who want's it to be the cornerstone of his new high rise development.
With the 747 stuck in a 600 mph tailwind and the passengers and crew members getting knocked off one by one from the evil that the Druid stone has unleaded it's former priest Kovalik, after gulping down at least a bottle of whiskey, who figures out what's the problem and plans to do battle with it before the plane and all it's passenger and crew crashes into the Atlantic Ocean. That's by creating a bonfire and keeping it going until the sun rises and finally puts the evil, like a vampire, to rest. There's also the what seems like Oxford educated, with a pronounced British accent, African brain surgeon, much like the real life Dr. Ben Carson, Doctor Enkalla, Paul Winfield, who provides Kavalik assistance in fighting the forces of evil loose on the plane.
A good cast makes this really off the wall disaster movie worth a watch with the heroic captain of the plane played by former TV "Rifelman" and Brooklyn Dodger 1st baseman Chuck Conners as Capt. Ernie Blade together with Buddy Ebsen, of "Beverly Hillbilly" fame, as millionaire oil-man and former WWII fighter pilot Glenn Farlee who's trying to take control of the 747 and land it almost, until he was stopped by Capt. Blade, lead to disaster.
With the 747 stuck in a 600 mph tailwind and the passengers and crew members getting knocked off one by one from the evil that the Druid stone has unleaded it's former priest Kovalik, after gulping down at least a bottle of whiskey, who figures out what's the problem and plans to do battle with it before the plane and all it's passenger and crew crashes into the Atlantic Ocean. That's by creating a bonfire and keeping it going until the sun rises and finally puts the evil, like a vampire, to rest. There's also the what seems like Oxford educated, with a pronounced British accent, African brain surgeon, much like the real life Dr. Ben Carson, Doctor Enkalla, Paul Winfield, who provides Kavalik assistance in fighting the forces of evil loose on the plane.
A good cast makes this really off the wall disaster movie worth a watch with the heroic captain of the plane played by former TV "Rifelman" and Brooklyn Dodger 1st baseman Chuck Conners as Capt. Ernie Blade together with Buddy Ebsen, of "Beverly Hillbilly" fame, as millionaire oil-man and former WWII fighter pilot Glenn Farlee who's trying to take control of the 747 and land it almost, until he was stopped by Capt. Blade, lead to disaster.