Review of Chosen Survivors (1974) by Bruce B — 03 May 2011
70s sci-fi/thriller has a group of people sealed into a survival shelter during the onset of nuclear war and discovering they're locked in with a horde of hungry vampire bats. Despite what sounds like an amusing idea, flick is robbed of any fun as it's filmed with an absolutely lethargic hand by director Sutton Roley and the weak script and bad dialog don't help either.
The cast is completely wooden and since we've seen a number of these actors do much better, it again falls on the director for not inspiring his performers. And this includes the bats as well, who are given no sense of menace or threat and are portrayed at times with some embarassingly bad FX.
It's a shame, there is a really fun B-movie idea buried under all the underwhelming melodrama but, like it's beseiged characters, it's completely drained of life by the anemic execution by those behind the camera.
This review of Chosen Survivors (1974) was written by Bruce B on 03 May 2011.
Chosen Survivors has generally received mixed reviews.
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