Chosen Survivors / The Earth Dies Screaming
by Sutton Roley, Terence Fisher
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Actor: Dennis Price, Thorley Walters, Vanda Godsell, Virginia Field, Willard ParkerDirector: Sutton Roley, Terence Fisher
Brand: Fox
Producer: Charles W. Fries
Producer: Jack Parsons
Producer: Leon Benson
Producer: Robert L. Lippert
Writer: Harry Spalding
Writer: Joe Reb Moffly
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Color, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 192 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-09-11
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
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DVD Review: A Dismal Doomsday Duo!
Summary: 3 Stars
I picked up some Midnite Movies classics from 20th Century Fox. It's a two DVD set with two very strange horror science fiction films. No extras in these films, except for theatrical trailers.
The first is Chosen Survivors. The USA has set up several centers like fallout shelters throughout the country. 11 people for each center has been "chosen by computer" to be the best and brightest to restart the new world in about six months or so after the bomb drops.
We see these eleven guys and gals being ferried into a fancy elevator, all walking around like they were drunk or drugged. Turns out they were given sedatives so that they could handle the shock of nuclear annihilation.
Oddly, none of these people knew that they were chosen in advanced. Just thrown into this bunker with all the comforts of home. Oh, and there was a maintenance man who happened to be doing a little fixing up and now he can't leave and is stuck with them.
The movie attempts horror with the bats. Bats everywhere. And even though the place is supposed to be sealed, bats get in anyway. Naturally they are vampire bats and they try to suck the blood of everyone there.
Two women are basically nuts. One screams incessantly, the other laughs hysterically. Between the both of them, you need earplugs to get through the remainder of the film.
Jackie Cooper must have needed to pay the rent that week for this turkey, though he does a passable job as the rich guy who now is angry at everyone for doing this to him and suspects the government is somehow to blame.
Well, yeah, the government could not even plug up the holes to keep the bats out! Damn!
The second in this dismal duo is the film The Earth Dies Screaming. Produced by Robert L. Lippert, the man who also produced Rocketship X-M and The Last Man on Earth, it's about people dying around like flies and how aliens are moving in to take over.
The movie starts out great -- people die in their tracks with cars crashing and trains derailing, planes crashing, etc. There are a few who survive. And though they all blame a gas attack, that's never made clear. It's also never made clear where these aliens come from, why they use robots to do their bidding, nor how they turn the dead people into zombies to do their bidding. All very strange.
One of the characters in this play is very furtive and sneaky and freaks out when someone tries to burn "worthless money." Why does he freak? Does he know more than we do? Never explained.
Willard Parker does pretty well as the American who is running the show for these sneaky, freaked-out English-people.
What really got me was this one gal who would run from the zombies but never closes the door behind her. In one scene, the door even has a lock and she leaves it open and cowers in a corner. Damn girl, lock the freaking door!!
A frustrating film, moves slow and is hampered by a silly script. The acting however was quite well done and not too over the top.
Other Silly Escapes:
What's the Matter with Helen?/Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (Midnite Movies Double Feature)
Deranged/Motel Hell (Midnite Movies Double Feature)
Voodoo Island/The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake (Midnite Movies Double Feature)
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