A female WWII pilot traveling with top secret documents on a B-17 Flying Fortress encounters an evil presence on board the flight.A female WWII pilot traveling with top secret documents on a B-17 Flying Fortress encounters an evil presence on board the flight.A female WWII pilot traveling with top secret documents on a B-17 Flying Fortress encounters an evil presence on board the flight.
- Awards
- 2 wins
Ryan Cooper
- WWII Cartoon Narrator
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Joshua Marchant
- WWII Cartoon Airman
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe animated segment at the beginning of the film is based on Private Snafu, a series of adult-oriented instructional shorts meant to educate enlisted personnel on army discretion, hygiene, combat readiness and daily life. They were produced between 1943 and 1945, and given that they were not meant to be public, were free from censorship restrictions. The title character, parodied in the film, comes from the military acronym "Situation Normal, All Fucked Up".
- GoofsThe B-17's ball turret couldn't be entered from inside the aircraft when it was on the ground, as it required the ball turret guns to be pointed downward for the hatch to be opened and there wasn't enough clearance between the aircraft and the ground to do so.
- Quotes
Maude Garrett: I was being polite!
- ConnectionsReferenced in Film Junk Podcast: Episode 820: Dune + Squid Game (2021)
Featured review
Dogfights & Gremlins
Shadow in the Cloud: Feels like a mix between the Amazing Stories episode "The Mission", The Twilight Zone episode Nightmare at 20,000 Feet and Memphis Belle, with even a homage to Aliens. Maude (Chloe Grace Moretz) hitches a ride on a B-17 going from Auckland to Samoa, she's carrying secret documents but even though she's a WAAF pilot the crew give her a hard time. She has to go into the belly bubble gun-turret for take off but ends up being trapped there. Then a gremlin, a large bat/rat/ape creature appears and starts damaging a wing and attacking her turret, the crew disbelieve her at first. Much of the action is based in the bubble and the outside of the plane, with the airmen only being heard over the intercom until Moretz gets back into the fuselage. It's not just the monster that they have to fear though, Japanese Zeros also attack. The gremlin is quite convincing as are the hand to hand battles with it and the dog fights with the Zeros. Some of the events do require a suspension of disbelief but Moretz literally kicks gremlin, misogynist and Zero ass. A couple of interesting plot twists makes this into an Air Ace scary pulp story. Directed and Co-written by Roseanne Liang. 7/10.
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- Jan 19, 2021
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- Release date
- Countries of origin
- Official site
- Language
- Also known as
- Bulutdagi soya
- Filming locations
- Tamaki Makaurau, Auckland, New Zealand(on location)
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $10,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $156,932
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $39,117
- Jan 3, 2021
- Gross worldwide
- $1,054,290
- Runtime1 hour 23 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39:1
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