The Devil's Rain (1975)

Look up in the sky!! It's an angel named 'Michael'? It's 'Vinnie Barbarino'?? It's a greaser named 'Danny'??? No!! It's... Well, actually, yes it is...

John Travolta was once a young, handsome, teen idol hunk in tight jeans whose teeny-bop posters decorated the bedroom walls of teenaged girls around the world. Fanzines plastered his image on every possible page and made a fortune. Travolta's 'sweathog' made 'Welcome Back Kotter' a top-rated television series for years.

"Let's put him in The Devil's Rain", thought an ambitious producer, "and watch the money roll in!"... And he proceeded to do just that!

Unfortunately, Travolta was costumed in baggy black robes and floppy cowl, and his face was so plastered in layers of latex that he was totally unrecognizable. But... he did have one line:

"Blasphemer! Get him, he is a blasphemer!"

This occurs near the end of the film (if you've somehow managed to suffer that far through it!), just before Travolta melts right before your eyes into a puddle of candle wax!

Hailed by the promoters as "One of the Most Ambitious Projects Ever Undertaken - And Definitely the Most Different!", it was more accurately described by one of it's co-stars, Tom Skerritt (of pre-'Alien' fame) as "A Picture to Throw Up By." I'm sure his fellow co-stars, Ernie Borgnine, Ida Lupino, William Shatner and Eddie Albert strongly concurred!

Despite the impressive line-up of stars and the box office magnetism of one of television's newest, hottest, most popular stars, word of this travesty quickly spread and audiences stayed away in droves, preferring, instead, to stay home and watch the dog lick himself, which, unlike The Devil's Rain, at least gives people something to think about.