CHOSEN SURVIVORS Rabid bats catastrophe film

Chosen Survivors is a 1974 American sci-fi catastrophe horror movie directed by Sutton Roley (Candy, Candy Rachel; Devil’s Triangle; The Curse of Dracula TV collection) from a screenplay by H.B. Cross [Harry Spalding: House of the Damned; Witchcraft; Curse of the Fly] and Joe Reb Moffly, based mostly on Spalding’s storyline.

The film stars Jackie Cooper, Alex Twine, Richard Jaeckel and Bradford Dillman.

Plot:
After being chosen at random by a pc to hunt security in an underground bomb shelter on the eve of a nuclear assault, a bunch of refugees makes a horrible realisation: They’re sharing the area with a colony of vampire bats. And since going again above floor isn’t an choice, they’re compelled to remain and combat for his or her lives…

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Evaluations:

Clever plotting, sexual and psychological drama and an offbeat directorial method make this fairly a singular little film. Director Sutton Roley was clearly attempting to interrupt out of TV with this one, although he was a grasp of high TV reveals for many years. Skewed digital camera angles are successfully used to indicate the disorientation of the survivors as they arrive, wide-angle lenses to accent their claustrophobia.” Black Gap Evaluations

“The movie suffers from tacky particular results and a dreary droning rating, however — being a performance-based melodrama — is most adversely affected by a succesful solid uninspired by the script’s clichéd dialogue … However, it conjures up some intermittent suspense and unease, because of Sutton Roley’s in a position course and a few distinctive bat wrangling.” Video Watchdog

“Though the characterizations are considerably trite, and the melodramatic histrionics are usually extreme, there are nonetheless loads of positives to be present in Chosen Survivors. From an aesthetics standpoint, the cinematography and lighting, together with the framing and blocking of the actors, are executed in most uncommon methods. Characters and objects are generally positioned equidistantly from one another inside sparse, static settings.” DVD Drive-In

“The script by Harry Cross performs unfastened with logic and character, and we’re given little background outdoors of exposition by the group psychologist (an efficient Bradford Dillman). Nonetheless, the archetypal personalities make for some attention-grabbing debate, which comprise sections of the movie between lethal vampire bat assaults.” Technicolor Desires

” …should you look carefully, you’ll see what a prize sirloin that is amongst the opposite science fiction steaks.” Cinefantastique

“One other misfit group united by catastrophe; extra shocks than suspense, and never a lot characterisation, however for journey/horror addicts it should cross the time.” Leslie Halliwell, Halliwell’s Movie Information

“The characters and plot are straight from inventory and recall the heyday of the fifties ‘B’ image. Nonetheless, the movie works effectively inside its personal undemanding limits.” Alan Frank, The Science Fiction and Fantasy Movie Handbook

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Forged and characters:
Jackie Cooper – Raymond Couzins
Alex Twine – Steven Mayes (Level of Terror; The Lifeless Are Alive; Uninvited>)
Richard Jaeckel – Main Ellis (Grizzly; Day of the Animals; The Darkish)
Bradford Dillman – Peter Macomber (The Mephisto Waltz; Bug; Piranha)
Diana Muldaur – Alana Fitzgerald (The Different)
Pedro Armendáriz, Jr. – Luis Cabral (The Vampires; Don’t Be Afraid of the Darkish)
Lincoln Kilpatrick – Woody Russo (The Ωmega Man; Piranha, 1995
Gwenn Mitchell – Carrie Draper
Barbara Babcock – Physician Lenore Chrisman (Salem’s Lot)

Launch:
Chosen Survivors was launched theatrically in the US on Could 22, 1974 by Columbia Footage. It was additionally launched as The Bats.

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