Review of The Chosen

The Chosen (1977)
6/10
Eerie and creepy fantasy/horror movie with a great cast formed by known British and Italian actors
9 November 2020
An industrialist , Kirk Douglas , in charge of a Middle East nuclear plant figures out that his son , Simon Ward, is a Devil with dark purports and sets out in stop him . Along the way he falls in love for a young reporter, Agostina Belli, and she then is pregnant . He will destroy the World. No man can stop him. No man will even try. He is the Chosen . The nightmare will be real. He is coming as Lucifer's Currse . And we will all be damned .The World will be destroyed in a rain of fire. It is written.

A thrilling and bizarre film with a fantastic and disconcerting premise . The film benefits itself of an interesting issue , and , nowadays very usual : the Biblical theme about the Commentary of Apocalypse by St. John . Stars an aging Kirk Douglas who gives a nice acting as the powerful executive who discovers his son results to be the Anti-Christ , while Agostina Belli is fine as the beautiful journalist who falls in love with him . Acceptable Simon Ward who plays the nasty son with sinister purports to wipe out the mankind. Being an Italian/British coproduction bears most of the worst traces of international financing , lines of dialogue that sound as copies from other flicks or like subtitles and poor dubbing . However , appearing notorious secondaries as Brits : Virginia McKenna , Alexander Knox , Geoffrey Keen , Anthony Quayle , Dennis Lawson, Petr Cellier as Italians as Ivo Garrani, Massimo Foschi, Romolo Valli, Adolfo Celli , among others.

Here stands out the suspenseful and intriguing musical score by the great Ennio Morricone , composed in his usual style .The motion picture was professionally directed by Alberto De Martino, though with a sense of disunity between cast and filmmaking , having some flaws and gaps . This Italian filmmaker was a good artisan who wrote and directed a lot of films of all kinds of genres and exploitation movies , as well as various straight Rip-offs with less attention to plot detail . He usually shot films to cash in on other hugely boxoffice successes as The "Exorcist" Martino made "Anti Christ" and " The Omen" he filmed this " Holocaust 2000" . As Alberto De Martino shot Peplum or Sword and Sandals genre : Spartan Gladiators , Invincible Gladiator , Seven Spartans, Valley of Stone Men, Secret Seven . Spaghetti Western sub-genre : Django shoots first, Providence , Charge of Seven Cavalry . Europe Spy subgenre : OK Connery , Operation Lady Chaplin and Terror : The AntiChrist, Miami Golem, Horror , Holocaust 2000 and several others .
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