10. ESTIMATION…DECIMATION: Today’s forecast is mushroom cloudy with a 100% chance of radiation.

Fuga dal Paradiso has an awesome poster going for it.

Teo (Fabrice Josso) and Beatrice (Inés Sastre) have a mini-disc that they view as a religious talisman and use it as a totem as they leave behind their artificial paradise and attempt to escape Earth. So far, they’ve never met one another, and in an Italian post-apocalyptic film showing us the future, they mostly date via FaceTime. Or whatever it’s called in the world of this movie.

The first thing they do when they leave home? Find a dog named Bear, who, for some reason, has on a shirt and pants. They also find a mall that still has clothes and, of course, punk rockers ready to kill them. Teo’s dad sends Thor (Horst Buchholz), his head of security, to rescue them. Here’s where this gets better: Thor and his crew ride camels and like to roast mutants with flamethrowers. However, he fails at everything he does, and as a result, loses his title.

Van Johnson appears as the old narrator that we see at the beginning and end. You have to feel for the guy, being in this movie.

I do love an Italian end-of-the-world movie, but this one seems nearly tame. Director Ettore Pasculli worked at Cinecittà in the role of advanced cinematographic technologies and was a programmer director for RAI. His film The Steam Factory was one of the first all-digital movies made in Italy.

Barbara Cupisti (The New York Ripper, Cemetery Man), Greta Valiant (The Daughter of Emanuelle) and Daniela Giordano (Four Times That Night) are all in it, at least.