I need help remembering a movie

[Optimus]

Okay, this will likely sound weird...mostly because my childhood memory of this is probably very incorrect and jumbled, but here goes...

I remember once when I was a kid walking into the den watching a few minutes of some movie my dad was watching on TV. It looked to be a movie from maybe the 70s or early 80s?

I really have no recollection of what the movie was about. Sorry, I know that's not helpful. But I think maybe it was some type of disaster movie or "escape from something" type of movie.

I just remember at some point toward the end, this guy (on some construction equipment?) turns around and sees some large smoke or fire cloud in the distance that kind of takes the form of a face with horns (the devil, perhaps?). Kind of freaked me out, since I was a little kid, but as an adult I'm intrigued to find this movie.

Anyway, for the life of me I can't figure out what this movie was and it's always bugged me because I want to watch it just for the hell of it.

So...as odd as this is...does anyone know the movie I'm talking about? I'm sorry this is so vague but I figured this would be the best place to ask considering the sheer number of film fans there are here.

[Richmond Weems]

I wonder if it's The Car? A James Brolin tv flick.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4qTXo2KCn0

HH

[Signal30]

That what I was thinking. Fun movie. Jaws on wheels.

[wcmartell]

That's the end of THE CAR...

I don't remember how KILLDOZER ended.

- Bill

[Signal30]

They took a cue from Hawks' The Thing and electrocuted it.

[NikeeGoddess]

ask you dad?

[Architeuthis Dux]

The movie is called "Five Million Years to Earth," aka "Quatermass and the Pit."

Imagine an entire season of "X files" distilled into one movie.

[Why One]

The trailer to FIVE MILLION YEARS TO EARTH -- if it helps.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CloWTPAjk-Q

[Optimus]

Originally Posted by Why One

The trailer to FIVE MILLION YEARS TO EARTH -- if it helps.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CloWTPAjk-Q

Yes! That's it!

It's the scene when he's on the crane swinging toward the whatever-it-is that I was remembering. I guess I was remembering it as smoke.

Doesn't look like anything I'd actually want to watch, haha.

The Car doesn't look like anything I'd want to watch, either, though I'm sure it was good in a cheesy kind of way.

Thanks, Why One and Architeuthis Dux! (and thanks to everyone else who helped, too).

[Signal30]

Originally Posted by Optimus

Doesn't look like anything I'd actually want to watch, haha.

It's actually pretty good. As in good good, rather than so-bad-it's-good. It's influenced a lot of stuff, from John Carpenter to Doom. The mythology that is, not the action-y aspects...