"Hit by 6 million tons of icy terror, a winter wonderland becomes a nightmare of destruction! Rock Hudson stars as David Shelby, and entrepreneur who spares no cost in making 'Ski Haven' the most spectacular sports resort in the country. Skiing the slopes by day and tumbling through mattresses by night, the 'beautiful people' attending the resort's grand opening play every game in the book until the great snow wedge high above the man-made winter wonderland falls away and catapults down the slope. With dreadful suddenness, Shelby and his wealthy playmates are swept into the only 'game' that counts - survival! Filmed in the chilly wilds of Tamarron and Purgatory, high in the Colorado Rockies, AVALANCHE is a crushing tribute to Nature's power - and man's failure to heed it."
1978.
So I am a little under the weather right now and have been taking it easy the past couple evenings. I went over to a friends house to look at her VHS collection to see if there were any gems I haven't seen yet and I find AVALANCHE. Made in 1978, AVALANCHE is a must see for any skier today. More focussed on being a disaster movie than a ski movie it captures the skiing lifestyle very nicely with fast paced skiing and big airs to the sexy aprés-ski world that is oh so sexy. The suspense holds you to the edge of your seat from beginning to end...
alright, enough of that bullshit. It's a disaster movie based around a new ski resort and it's made in the late '70's. There are a lot of parts where you will be like "oh come on" and "really?" but personally that's what made the movie for me. Go find it, and watch it. It's not like you got anything better to do.
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