Troma's War

A commercial airline flight crashes on a tropical, apparently deserted Caribbean island. The morning after, the sun shines over a beach,where gory dead bodies and plane wreckage are scattered everywhere. A groggy survivor wakes up, and she slowly realizes what happened. Flashback to the scene just after the crash, with several people on fire running around and screaming. As the camera pans over the burning wreckage of the airplane, one hears the ... [more] A commercial airline flight crashes on a tropical, apparently deserted Caribbean island. The morning after, the sun shines over a beach,where gory dead bodies and plane wreckage are scattered everywhere. A groggy survivor wakes up, and she slowly realizes what happened. Flashback to the scene just after the crash, with several people on fire running around and screaming. As the camera pans over the burning wreckage of the airplane, one hears the crying of a baby somewhere amid the flames. The few survivors all gather, surrounded by the charred bodies.The survivors are: a black Catholic priest, who sings an hymn to the dead, a whiny mother, a one-year-old jingoistic baby girl, a handsome environmentalist, a blind young woman eager to fight with a gun in her hands, a chauvinistic heartthrob who's after a liberated woman, a liberated woman who rejects male advances, a heroic gay flight attendant, a used car salesman who happens to be a Vietnam veteran, a charming man, a handicapped World War II veteran with a wooden arm, an oily Wall Street tycoon who happens to be a Vietnam hero, a punk rock band called the "Bearded Clams", an obese gourmet chef into junk food, some sexy young women, and a seventy-year-old housewife who ends up karate kicking and blowing away foes as anyone else.The survivors flee into the jungle, where they are temporarily safe. It doesn't take them long to find out the island is inhabited by mysterious looking soldiers on patrol.The survivors are mistaken for commandos by Neonazis and Cuban free