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" Chosen Survivors Movie Review
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Chosen Survivors is an interesting attempt, but flawed. I think with some careful modification to the script, it could be an amazingly good nihilistic story, and also comment on Mankind's hubris. What if some of the last humans left alive were trapped in a cave with bloodsucking vampire bats? Sure, the government conspiracy adds another angle to the story, but does it need one? Trapping a group of talented people, who still have human failings, in an underground bunker allows for a writer to explore all sorts of humanity's good and bad points. The bats are just there to provide a terrifying, inhuman aspect to the already horrific situation.
"And everybody in the elevator shuffles to the right, then they fall to the left, and they're moaning, because they're drugged, and this is all done in slo-mo."
"I want something I can fix with a hammer and duct tape. If your emergency supplies and plans do not involve duct tape, you are wrong."
"What's wrong with being the stud?"
"I would gladly grab that man, and stake him out for the bats to eat."
Something to watch for: "Which one of you Monty Python zealots did this horrible thing?"
Lesson Learned: Stretch Armstrong is made of puréed vampire bat tongues.
Notes and Links
I believe that the film used actual Vampire Bats for the closeup shots.
Other movies that feature swarms of killer bats include Bats (1999 - I went to see it in the theater), Nightwing (1979), and Fangs (2001).
When I was a kid, we had a game. It was called "try to hit the bat with a wiffle ball bat." We would all stand in Ryan's big backyard, with numerous bats swooping overhead, and chuck our wiffle ball bats into the air. The bats would execute crazy acrobatic manuevers to avoid the thrown plastic tubes, then follow the spinning wiffle ball bats towards the ground. Meaning that all of us kids ducked our heads and tried to scatter, because one or the other (bat, or bat) was going to hit us. I cannot remember anyone ever touching one of the animals, but several times we did get hit on the head by a falling wiffle ball bat.
Reply #1. Posted on April 03, 2008, 08:38:40 PM by RCMerchant
The wiffle bat story reminds me of an incident that happened when I was in middle school. A bat was buzzing the students in the hallway between classes. Lotsa screaming girls and laffing boys. One boy tossed a school book and took the little guy out. The boy picked him up buy his little wings. I got a nice closeup look at 'em. He was still alive! Ugly critter. Our hero walked off with him...followed by a crowd of excited kids. I wonder what he did with it?
The wiffle bat story reminds me of an incident that happened when I was in middle school. A bat was buzzing the students in the hallway between classes. Lotsa screaming girls and laffing boys. One boy tossed a school book and took the little guy out. The boy picked him up buy his little wings. I got a nice closeup look at 'em. He was still alive! Ugly critter. Our hero walked off with him...followed by a crowd of excited kids. I wonder what he did with it?
Years ago, before I was born, my Dad was preaching a Sunday night service. The windows of the country church were open to let some breeze in, and a bat flew right into the sanctuary! Little old ladies were screaming and fainting, and three deacons grabbed brooms and tried to dispatch the flying menace. Chaos reigned until the oldest deacon in the church turned the lights out, enably the blinded bat to find the windows and skeedaddle!
Reply #3. Posted on April 09, 2008, 11:05:09 AM by Mr. DS
"Duct Tape saved my marriage" that line made me laugh out loud at work. By the way, how exactly did it save your marriage. Is your wife taped to a chair somewhere?
Reply #4. Posted on April 09, 2008, 08:08:31 PM by Andrew
We once had a late night AD&D game in Todd's garage/detached tea house turn into chaos when a bat started flying around the light. Nothing like a bunch of teenagers trying to deal with a dizzy bat in dim lighting (and with the light swinging back and forth from the first misjudged attempt to knock it down).
Reply #5. Posted on April 23, 2008, 06:44:34 PM by John
I don't think that animals should suffer for our enjoyment. Just my thoughts. Why didn't they use rubber bats? Bats are such great creatures. Each one eats about one ton of bugs a year. Rats are great too. Rat spend 90% of their time cleaning themselves. They're really very clean by wild animal standards. It is human soil that makes most of the dirty when we see them. They make much better pets than gerbals or hamsters. More social, more intelligent, (intelligence of a 2 year old child) and are easy to raise.
Earth is visited by a GIANT ANTIMATTER SPACE BUZZARD! Gawk at the amazingly bad bird puppet, or chuckle over the silly dialog. This is one of the greatest b-movies ever made.
Lesson Learned:
Osmosis: os·mo·sis (oz-mo'sis, os-) n., 1. When a bird eats something.
Just my thoughts. Why didn't they use rubber bats? 
Bats are such great creatures. Each one eats about one ton of bugs a year. Rats are great too. Rat spend 90% of their time cleaning themselves. They're really very clean by wild animal standards. It is human soil that makes most of the dirty when we see them. 
