George Kennedy narrates a film that tries to get from Jupiter to the end of the world by way of ancient disasters, biblical prophecy, survivalists, psychics and a computer simulation. The film says Stelle planned to build 2,000 to 3,000 airships by 1999. I said there hadn’t been a cohesive story. The film kept going, all the way to a prediction of catastrophe around May 5, 2000. At the end I called it a ’10 out of 10 tape’ that ‘made no sense whatsoever.’
On this tape
Jupiter Menace
- The film connects Jupiter, ancient catastrophes and biblical end-times claims.
- A claimed 1982 Grand Alignment, solar activity, earthquakes and volcanoes.
- Survival supplies and communities, including Stelle and its proposed thousands of airships.
- An Ozarks settlement is discussed; its name remains unclear in the transcript.
- Preaching, psychics’ earthquake forecasts, a computer simulation, Velikovsky and pole-shift theories.
- Antarctic-ice speculation and a catastrophe prediction for around May 5, 2000.
Tape details
- Burbank Video VHS release, narrated by George Kennedy; the sleeve credits directors Peter Matulavich and Lee Auerbach.
- The sleeve states 89 minutes, though another passage on it says 80 minutes. The tape’s measured runtime and VHS release year are not established.
- Viewed to completion on October 14, 2026.
- Archive ID: VHS-2026-1319.
