Chosen Survivors
Seen it?1974 | 99 min | Horror, Science Fiction
Monday Morning Maybeearly ratingWhy it’s a Monday Morning Maybe
With a box office flop and almost no lasting buzz, this one could be a tough watch. Keep your phone handy.
Based on critics, audiences, awards, box office and buzz. Details below.Is it for you?
- Who'll love it
- Best for anyone drawn to bleak, what-if futures and anyone who enjoys a good scare. It builds a whole broken world and makes you live in it. Same wavelength as 28 Years Later.
- The mood
- Scary.
- The pace
- Tense from early on, at 1 hr 39 min.
- What might put you off
- Rated PG. Worth a look first if you have very young kids.
- Made in 1974: an older pace and style.
- Skip it if you scare easily or watch alone at night.
A group of diverse individuals are suddenly taken from their homes and flown via helicopter to a futuristic bomb shelter in the desert, nearly two miles below the surface of the Earth. There they learn that a nuclear holocaust is taking place and that they've been "chosen" by computer to survive in the shelter in order to continue the human race. The shelter is designed to allow the people to exist underground comfortably for years, but they are faced with a threat nobody could have predicted: a colony of thousands of bloodthirsty vampire bats finds a way into the shelter and launches a series of vicious attacks where they claim the humans one by one.
How it earned its rating
- CriticsNot counted
Not enough reviews on record yet
- AudiencesNot counted
Not measured yet: not enough ratings
- AwardsNot counted
No major awards or nominations
- Reach & staying powerWeak
Streaming release that reached a small audience so far
- Buzz & cultural impactWeak
About 7K people sought it out in the past year
Trailer
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Cast & crew
Directed by Sutton Roley
- Jackie CooperRaymond Couzins
- Alex CordSteven Mayes
- Richard JaeckelMajor Gordon Ellis
- Bradford DillmanPeter Macomber
- Pedro Armendáriz Jr.Luis Cabral
- Diana MuldaurAlana Fitzgerald
- Lincoln KilpatrickWoody Russo
- Gwenn MitchellCarrie Draper
- Barbara BabcockDr. Lenore Chrisman
- Cristina MorenoKristin Lerner