Avalanche

This is a made-for-TV thriller starring Knight Rider star David Hasselhoff as madman Duncan Snyder, who crashes into the Rockies, produces an avalanche and gets the Kemp Family trapped inside their house with him.

It is notable seeing the Knight Rider hero playing a nefarious villain, terrorizing a quiet family and forcing them to help him find jewels in the mountains. It is pretty exciting to see how the Kemp Family attempt to get themselves out of Snyder's trap.

The acting was so-so, pretty campy at times. But, the plot is fast-paced and full of suspense - from the avalanche to the fight for survival. All in all, not a bad TV thriller.

Grade B-

1994 television movie starring Michael Gross as a dad trying to make up for lost time with his kids on a trip to ski country, and David Hasselhoff as a deranged diamond thief and murderer trapped together by a massive avalanche. Not really that bad although Hasselhoff's character was pretty wacky. One especially good scene was when Gross, who starred as the gun loving Burt Gummer in 1990's Tremors, declares sternly upon finding Hasselhoff has a gun, "There will be no firearms in this house". His son fearfully had advised earlier, "I saw a....gun", gulp. Kind of funny. We had no idea who was in this movie when it came on, and were mildly amused to find Hasselhoff as the bad guy, then when Michael Gross enters the film we knew we had to watch. I am kind of torn on what exactly we saw. Not genius, no. But arguably not that bad and certainly a movie that despite it's short comings, you keep watching to see what will happen.

I had the misfortune of seeing this crapulous effort on television a few years ago. Suffice it to say Michael Gross phones in his performance, and Hasselhoff is the least convincing thief/psycho...EVER! If you have a couple of hours to kill, watch it and prepare to laugh.

This is worth the watch just for Davids pantomime bad guy! Honest he is so good at it. Nicey nicey one minute totally bad the next. I think after seeingthis he is totally underated as an actor. He should be given more roles. I enjoyed this film very much.

I saw this on Lifetime a few days ago, since I remembered seeing the preview for it back in '94. I never got to see it though.

Well, 10 years later & I finally get to see it. Its pretty decent for a made-4-TV movie. The cast is good, well, Mr. Hasselhoff seemed a bit off. He had that cool killer stare, but he's not much a villain. He was still an evil, evil man. I got a good laugh out of it.

David also seem to have that Fri. the 13th/Jason syndrome in the movie. HE JUST WOULDN'T DIE!!

I would have died laughing, if in the end, the camera pans down to the snow & we see a David's bloody hand come out from the snow & we hear him scream, "BRIAN!!!"

Brian was played by Michael Gross, a very good actor. I've enjoyed him from the TREMORS movies.

I say, this is worth seeing just to see David Hasselhoff ham it up as the villain after his precious jewels. I should try to find a copy of this on Ebay, hoping its available in America on VHS or DVD.