Chosen Survivors (1974)
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This speculative horror film details the tribulations endured by a specially-selected test group of 11 people who are informed that they will be the only occupants of a nuclear fallout shelter built half a mile below the Earth's surface. Chosen by project coordinator Peter Macomber (Bradford… More This speculative horror film details the tribulations endured by a specially-selected test group of 11 people who are informed that they will be the only occupants of a nuclear fallout shelter built half a mile below the Earth's surface. Chosen by project coordinator Peter Macomber (Bradford Dillman) as a fair cross-section of humanity, the group includes a politician, a businessman, an athlete and an author. As it turns out, the "survivors" are unwitting participants in one of those contrived psychological experiments featured so often on programs like The Twilight Zone. To make matters worse, someone's left a vent open, releasing thousands of ravenous vampire bats. Produced in Mexico, this tepid psycho-thriller plays out like the aforementioned TV drama, albeit padded out to 100 minutes. Said padding seems comprised of equal parts dull dialogue and interminable battles with the winged foes -- which are admittedly quite realistic and make for some genuine creep-out scenes. ~ Cavett Binion, Rovi
- Directed By
- Sutton Roley
- Genres
- Action & Adventure, Horror, Classics, Science Fiction & Fantasy
- In Theaters
- Dec 5, 1974 Wide
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Cast
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Pedro Armendariz Jr.
as Luis Cabral
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Barbara Babcock
as Lenore Chrisman
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Jackie Cooper
as Raymond Couzins
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Alex Cord
as Steven Mayes
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Bradford Dillman
as Peter Macomber
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Richard Jaeckel
as Gordon Ellis
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Lincoln Kilpatrick
as Woody Russo
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Kelly Lange
as Mary Louise Borden
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Gwen Mitchell
as Carrie Draper
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Christina Moreno
as Kristin Lerner
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Diana Muldaur
as Alana Fitzgerald
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Nancy Rodman
as Claire Farraday
- Gwenn Mitchell