Despite the obvious limitations of trying to recreate Sensurround in a home video environment (uh…you can’t), it’s lucky that Rollercoaster itself is a pretty entertaining little TV-like thriller, marked by some snarky humor and spot-on performances. Premiering post-peak in the Hollywood 1970s disaster genre cycle, Universal’s Rollercoaster was produced by Jennings Lang, written by Richard Levinson and William Link (of Columbo fame), directed by James Goldstone, and starred George Segal, Richard Widmark, Timothy Bottoms, Harry Guardino, Susan Strasberg, Henry Fonda and Helen Hunt. Your purchase helps pay the bills at this website!Ī far cheaper and more entertaining alternative is to sit down with the fam and watch Rollercoaster, recently released on Blu-ray by Shout! Factory. See ya, Cedar Point-I’d rather watch a movie.Ĭlick to purchase Rollercoaster on Blu-ray at Amazon. Sorry we missed it, kids!” Once a de rigeur summer ritual for my family (owing to our close proximity to “America’s Roller Coast,” Cedar Point), the last ones in the chute are finally getting old enough now I can offer them fifty bucks cash and the promise of a new puppy (I’ll renege on that, too) so my wife and I don’t have to trudge back and forth for miles over that scalding pavement, the sun beating down on our heads as the humidity hits 90 percent, while our sweaty, miserable kids have “fun” waiting in line for hours to go on exactly three rides.
With this hateful, god-awfully hot summer finally winding down, the fear that I’d eventually have to lay out $500 bucks minimum on a family trip to our neighborhood amusement park is now happily a non-issue.
1977’s Rollercoaster is a first-rate TV suspenser, blasted onto the big screen via Sensurround.
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