Chosen Survivors / The Earth Dies Screaming (Double Feature)

Another Midnite Movie double feature masterpiece! CHOSEN SURVIVORS concerns a group of eleven men and women chosen (by the government) to be the ones who wait out WWIII. Yep, they get to repopulate the planet! Luckily, our beloved elected officials have thought of everything, sending these folks deep beneath the earth. Once there, they are greeted by a pre-recorded message telling them that the world has been destroyed. Tensions start to build as each person tries to comprehend what has happened. Unfortunately, things go badly, as a massive swarm of vampire bats somehow infiltrate the underground facility, hungry for the red stuff! Richard Jaeckel (Grizzly, Day Of The Animals, The Dark) is the military engineer. Bradford Dillman (Bug, Piranha) is the psychiatrist who just might know something the others don't. Jackie Cooper (Superman 1 and 2) is the slimy corporate executive of the bunch. CS is a nice claustrophobic thriller. THE EARTH DIES SCREAMING is sort of the british version of TARGET EARTH. The movie opens with a train crashing, a plane plummeting from the sky, etc. It seems that some alien force has unleashed poison gas on mankind! Soon, a few survivors find each other and attempt to make sense of it all. Our heroes are hunted by lumbering, annoyingly slow robots. Also, some re-animated zombies w/ eyes like boiled eggs are shambling around. Watch for Dennis Price (Horror Hospital, Tower Of Evil) as a sneaky jerk with selfish plans of his own. Both of these films are quite re-watchable. A terror-ific double bill...

CHOSEN SURVIVORS (1974) Stars Jackie Cooper. A group of "survivors" is chosen by the government. These people are taken to a hidden underground bob shelter/complex. Nuclear destruction is coming to the surface and these people are meant to be the ones to continue the human race after the fallout subsides. But the underground shelter complex is being invaded by millions of vampire bats...that are hungry.

THE EARTH DIES SCREAMING (1965) Stars Willard Parker, Virginia Field, Dennis Price and Vanda Godsell. Directed by Hammer's Terrence Fisher. Alien robots invade earth and bring the dead back to life. White-eyed zombies. Yeaaaaachh. This movie was much cooler than I thought. Creepy and well-acted, though short (about 60 minutes) Very enjoyable!