An executive in charge of a Middle Eastern nuclear plant discovers that his son is the Anti Christ and sets out to stop him from using the nuclear power at his fingertips to wipe out mankind.

Holocaust 2000 (1977)
  • Rating: (432 votes)
  • Taglines:He will destroy the world. No man can stop him. No man will even try. He is The Chosen. » The world will be destroyed in a rain of fire. It is written. »
  • Runtime:106 minutes
  • Director: Alberto De Martino
  • Countries:Italy, UK
  • Actors:
    Robert Caine
    Kirk Douglas
    Angel Caine
    Simon Ward
    Sara Golan
    Agostina Belli
    Professor Griffith
    Anthony Quayle
    Eva Caine
    Virginia McKenna
    Harbin
    Spiros Focás
    The Prime Minister
    Ivo Garrani
    Professor Ernst Meyer
    Alexander Knox
    Dr. Kerouac
    Adolfo Celi
    Monsignor Charrier
    Romolo Valli
  • Genres:Drama, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
  • Producers:
    Edmondo Amati
    producer  
    Maurizio Amati
    executive producer  
  • Plot: An executive in charge of a Middle Eastern nuclear plant discovers that his son is the Anti Christ and sets out to stop him from using the nuclear power at his fingertips to wipe out mankind. Written by Jonathon Dabell <J.D.@pixie.ntu.ac.uk>
Holocaust 2000
  • User's comment:A better Omen sequel than the actual Omen sequels by TrevorAclea

    Alberto De Martino's Anglo-Italian Holocaust 2000 aka Rain of Fire aka The Chosen is another post-Omen ripoff with an ageing Hollywood star jumping on the Satanic conspiracy bandwagon, in this case Kirk Douglas as a powerful industrialist whose plans to build a controversial nuclear power plant in the Holy Land might just trigger the End of Days. Naturally, he doesn't see it that way at first, but even before he dismisses one critic by urging him to "Stop talking like a ridiculous prophet of the Apocalypse! I'm not counting on God. I'm putting my faith in nuclear energy!", you can see where this is heading even if he can't. But a few deaths courtesy of the odd celebrity victim in the supporting cast like Anthony Quayle or Virginia McKenna, one ominous computer printout, a fertile fling with Agostina Belli's photographer and a chance meeting with Romolo Valli's priest later and he's having nightmarish visions of the Apocalypse and, this being the 70s when you had more chance of getting Sylvia Kristel to keep her clothes on in a film than Kirk, we're having nightmarish full-frontal visions of Douglas running naked through the desert as he gradually comes to believe that his proposed seven-towered nuclear plant might just be the seven-head Beast of the Book of Revelations and that his unborn child might just be AntiChrist (a common ailment with ageing movie stars in the 70s) while screaming "We're not seven-headed monsters bringing about the Apocalypse!" at his corporate minions. Luckily – or perhaps not – he's teamed up with the Vatican's only pro-abortion priest to kill the sprog, but things don't quite go to plan and thanks to his angelic son Simon Ward he finds himself in a rubber room in Adolfo Celi's steel and glass asylum: well, Kirk did always want to make One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest…

    LionsGate's US DVD, released as Rain of Fire, is the European version with the original open ending: for the shorter US cut, a clumsy and rushed epilogue (not included on the DVD, though it can be found on YouTube) was added by editing shots of a board meeting, Douglas arriving at an airport, a body double sewing dynamite into his suit and a stock footage explosion together to laughable effect. Otherwise there are surprisingly few moments of unintentional comedy, though Douglas' reaction to the semi-decapitation of the Israeli Prime Minister by a helicopter and his gurning expression when passing out after being drugged are spit-your-coffee-across-the-room ones. You can see the twist coming a mile off, but while it offers no surprises and is about as frightening as processed cheese, it's easygoing schlock entertainment with some class and a decent budget, and it's probably a better Omen sequel than the actual sequels.


  • Also known as: Holocausto 2000 (Mexico - imdb display title), Holocausto 2000 (Spain - imdb display title), Das siebenköpfige Ungeheuer (West Germany), Holocauste 2000 (France), Inferno 2000 (West Germany), Lucifer's Curse (USA - reissue title), Mahserin dölü (Turkey - Turkish title), O tyhodioktis tis Kolaseos (Greece - reissue title), Rain of Fire (Europe - informal title, English title), Terror 2000 (Finland - Swedish title), Terrori 2000 (Finland), The Chosen (Philippines - English title), To sperma tou Satana (Greece - transliterated ISO-LATIN-1 title), Wybrani (Poland),

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