Review – Shadow in the Cloud

As if we needed further proof that gremlins – the old school airplane attacking sort – can sustain a Twilight Zone episode but not much more. And that continues to puzzle me. This had many of the ingredients of a good horror movie, including a reasonably scary monster and a familiar face or two in the bomber-crew-sized cast. But then the protagonist gets stuck in the ball turret under a B-17, and the bulk of the rest of the movie happens in that limited space. Which isn’t as big a shame as it sounds, as almost all of the non-monster parts of the script (the majority of the production’s running time, by the way) was a dull soap opera rather than a frightening story or even an interesting history lesson. See if desperate