Product: Special Bulletin (TV-Movie) [VHS] (1983)
Rating: 4.0
An '80s video 'War of the Worlds'
Patterned after a real news network broadcast, The network actually announced during each station break that "This is a fictitious story", etc. But as I remember viewing it for the first time, until the first commercial, seeing the alternate CNN-type network with 'BREAKING NEWS' and reporters scrambling about actually instilled real fear in me which I have not felt before or since during any cinematic experience. Honestly, I have laughed at movies like "The Exorcist". The vastly more popular (but lousy) mid-'80s film "The Last Day" paled in comparison to this film, which seems to have disapeared like a fart in a hurricane, most likely for scaring too many people.The evolving profile of the terrorist/mastermind is as chilling as any modern, real profile of Al Queda. Remember, this feature was made almost 20 years before the current proliferation of reality-based television. A Very, Very, interesting and ground-breaking film.