That was an excellent one.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

The Pentagon kidnaps celebrities just to conduct a psychological experiment, but a bunch of cunning vampire bats foil their wicked military ways. This is no gag; it's the actual plot. Obviously, written by some left-wing malcontent. Hollywood is full of Marxist dweebs who simply cannot watch a capitalist democracy prosper, so they make up nonsense any way they can – and if that means including vampire bats into the plot of a lame thriller, so be it! Yet another deluded and utterly paranoid view of the U.S. government; one which doesn't hold an iota of credibility. Anti-western/anti-capitalist conspiracy theorists should enjoy this, but filmgoers who prefer common-sense over abject nonsense will be offended by the blatant cretinism of the premise. Many logic problems. The government, if it were ever foolish and evil enough to conduct an experiment with unwilling test-subjects, would pick out a bunch of unknowns rather than high-profile individuals whose sudden disappearances would immediately trigger front-page news. The test-subjects include a Nobel-Prize winner, a successful athlete, a famous writer, and even a Congresswoman! Duh! Double-duh! What government in their right (or left) mind would risk needless problems of this sort, i.e. a media circus surrounding the disappearance of so many celebs. I can just see the headlines: "PENTAGON ABDUCTS CELEBS AND HAS THEM POKED TO DEATH BY BATS!"That there are no cameras installed to document this exhorbitantly expensive experiment is absurd enough, but the fact that just one man is overseeing this entire multi-billion-dollar game in the middle of a desert is stupid to the nth degree. There is nobody close-by to step in should something unforeseen happen – and even apes know that in experiments unforeseen events are to be expected, and addressed in advance with a Plan B. This movie's U.S. government doesn't even have a Plan A; it's as if somebody had just thrown billions on a project, willy-nilly, and then decided that one man can handle all aspects of it. But that's how left-wing Hollywood writers are: they usually write baloney, because when your political thinking is skewered, then logically chances are low of producing anything but crappy, moronic bat-mad scripts.Just when I thought the bats had had their day in this flick, they proceed to overrun this thriller, which is when the B-movie horror flick wins over the B-movie thriller. After all, bats ARE very dear to the writer's heart. Even Spielberg's great white sharks and dinosaurs made more sense than these utterly crazed flying rats. Still, at least CS has a major plot-twist half-way through the movie. For a while there I was worried I was stuck with a blood-sucking-bats B-movie horror flick…… When in fact bats make up only 90% of the movie's plot.Very predictably, this left-wing script has the corporate guy as the unbearable prick, while the malcontent writer represents the voice of reason and exhibits typically liberal self-righteous indignation. The grumpy suit even gets drunk and rapes a woman, mere days into the experiment! So much for the government's psychological profiling, obviously conducted by a chimp not much smarter than the film's writer.Once the motley ten find out that there was no nuclear war, and that they will be freed in only 5 days, what do they do? Do they heave a huge sigh of relief and wait for the rescuers? No. They panic even more, showing startling impatience! The result is the black athlete's totally unnecessary 500-m climb up the elevator shaft which, of course, ends with death by bat. Remember: these test-subjects were all hand-picked, i.e. the crème-de-la-crème of American society. Yet in their infinitely small wisdom they figure it makes more sense to try to escape through the elevator shaft and then trek through the desert on foot – rather than simply wait out the measly 5 days and leave the underground can in a comfy helicopter.

"Chosen Survivors" is a rare film. It has a GREAT story idea but it's completely undone by bad writing. It's a shame, as the main plot is fantastic.A small group of people find themselves sedated and brought to a shelter more than 1700 feet underground. It seems that the dreaded nuclear apocalypse has arrived and the government has picked a few people to secure in various bunkers under the earth in order to propagate the human race. Much of the film concerns how these folks adapt to their new lives--or, rather, how some of them cannot cope. I loved the film up to this point and felt it was a brilliant study of human nature. Then, abruptly, the film took a detour to Stupidville! That's because without warning, insane vampire bats invade the bunker. I say insane because these bats in real life are NOT killers--but here in the film they are worse than killer bees, piranhas and Cobras combined!!! Bats just don't behave that way and then too much of a once-interesting story is spent focusing on how to survive with these murderous beasts flapping about....which is a shame, as the film has a wonderful twist that is lost in the process. A great example of a wonderful story idea that is ultimately ruined.

Chosen Survivors is directed by Sutton Roley and written by H.B. Cross. It stars Jackie Cooper, Alex Cord, Richard Jaeckel, Bradford Dillman, Barbara Babcock, Diana Muldaur and Lincoln Kilpatrick. Music is by Fred Karlin and cinematography by Gabriel Torres.It's the eve of nuclear war and a government computer has selected a specialist group of people to live 1,758 feet underground in a nuclear proof, purpose built housing facility. The purpose is that these people can start to repopulate the Earth in five years time. However, something isn't quite right about this set-up and things take a distinctive turn for the worse when it's revealed that a colony of vampire bats have also made the facility their home.It's far better than any plot synopsis suggests. True, it's very 70s, both in characters (clothing/delivery of dialogue/hair), and the effects used, but it also captures the zeitgeist of paranoia running at the time. Fear of nuclear war and the government hangs heavy, while the group dynamic under a stress situation makes for a tellingly oppressive mood. The whole thing has a bleakness about it, and that's before the vampire bats turn up hungry for what is apparently the only source of blood left available to them. The downbeat feel is further enforced by Karlin's music score, which often sounds like the synthesiser strains favoured by John Carpenter for some of his well revered culters. There's the expected bad turn of events with some of the characters, I mean it would be a dull film if everyone just got on all hunky dory, while there's a wicked twist that propels the narrative to another level of enjoyment for the viewer.Competently acted by the cast, and effectively put together by Roley, Chosen Survivors is a neat horror/sci-fi hybrid. Not without some cheese and gaps in plotting for sure, but very effective and recommended on proviso you aren't looking to be cheered up! 7/10

A group of people are selected to take part in an experiment to see how mankind would fare after a nuclear holocaust and are placed without there consent in a bunker thousands of feet below ground. They disturb a group of bats living in the cave systems around them and they begin to attack the trapped humans. This is a great premise for this film but i found it so slow moving with far to many talking scenes. In the whole first hour only two people die of the bat attack and only one of them do we see die on screen. The remaining film concerns one of the group trying to climb to safety who falls to his death and releases the bats to attack one final time killing all but 5 of the group in one big attack scene. All in all a good premise for a film but not as good as it could have been.