{"id":20250,"date":"2020-08-25T03:31:36","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T07:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=20250"},"modified":"2020-08-25T11:53:11","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T15:53:11","slug":"very-minor-brilliance-on-a-budget-x-312-flight-to-hell-1970","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=20250","title":{"rendered":"(Very Minor) Brilliance on a Budget: X-312 FLIGHT TO HELL (1970)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_20254\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20254\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-20254 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/X312_still_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/X312_still_m.jpg 350w, https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/X312_still_m-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-20254\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Must. Save. The. Teddy. Bear.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Although there are no big names in Jess Franco\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=20241\"> <strong>X-312 Flight to Hell<\/strong> \/ <strong>X312 &#8211; Flug zur H\u00f6lle<\/strong><\/a> (1971) \u2013 star Thomas Hunter had appeared in several spaghetti westerns, and Gila von Weitershausen would become a prolific TV actress \u2013 in this particular production, the manic director had a more complex script which begins as a plane crash \/ disaster thriller, shifts to a jungle survival thriller, and gradually concludes as a film noir \/ femme fatal thriller.<\/p>\n<p>And amazingly, it kind of works.<\/p>\n<p>Franco was still limited by a tight budget, but with an ace veteran editor he was able to deliver a briskly paced thriller with a genuinely exceptional shootout near the finale. <strong>X-312<\/strong> is a perfect B-movie which probably would\u2019ve rented well on home video shelves, action, nudity, a gorgeous poster, and lush tropical locations.<\/p>\n<p>Image released a bare bones DVD way back in 2003, and it\u2019s an adequate albeit imperfect transfer, which more or less means the film deserves a proper Blu-ray release with contextual extras. Franco was averaging roughly 4 films a year in the 1970s, and he would augment his output with a greater variety of erotica and adult material by the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>Besides a few bouts of flagrant nudity, the story mandated an emphasis on action, which is why <strong>X-312<\/strong> is worth a peek.<\/p>\n<p><em>Coming next<\/em>: <strong>Greyhound<\/strong> (2020) from Apple TV + BSX Entertainment\u2019s double-feature <strong>U-Boats: The Wolfpack<\/strong> \/ <strong>B-17: The Flying Fortress<\/strong>, boasting early scores by Christopher Young, <em>and<\/em> Severin&#8217;s superb double-bill <strong>Blood &amp; Flesh: The Reel Life &amp; Ghastly Death of Al Adamson <\/strong>(2019) + <strong>The Female Bunch<\/strong> (1971).<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for reading,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor<br \/>\n<strong>KQEK.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jess Franco delivers decent action and enjoyable nonsense in the plane crash thriller X-312: FLIGHT TO HELL (1970) from Image.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20255,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[2562,2563,6471,2511,6470],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/X312_featured.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-5gC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20250"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20250"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20259,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20250\/revisions\/20259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}