Holocaust 2000 (1977)

Country of Origin: Italy / UK
Year of Production:
Running Times: 96 mins (USA)     101 mins 50 sec (UK)     106 mins (Italy)
Format: Technicolor     35mm     Technovision
Ratio: 2.35:1
Sound: mono

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Aston Film / Embassy Pictures Corporation
Executive Producer: Edmondo Amati
Production Manager (Italy): Roberto Giussani
Production Manager (UK): Nick Farnes

SCRIPT
Script: Sergio Donati, Alberto De Martino, Michael Robson
Story: Sergio Donati, Alberto De Martino

DIRECTION
Director: Alberto De Martino
Assistant Director: Anthony Waye
2nd Assistant Director: Gerry Gavigan (uncredited)

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Erico Menczer
Camera Operator: Roberto Brega
Focus: Robert Vidgeon
Lab: Technicolor

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Vincenzo Tomassi
Assistant Editor: Vanio Amici

MUSIC
Music: Ennio Morricone

SOUND
Sound Recordist: Peter Hanford
Dubbing Mixer: Gerry Humphreys
Sound Editor: Peter Horrocks
Recorded At: Twickenham Film Studios, London, England, UK

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Chief Make Up: Penny Steyne
Make Up For Agostina Belli: Franco Schippa
Hair: Colin Jamison
Hair For Agostina Belli: Ida De Guilmi
Costume Designer: Enrico Sabbatini
Wardrobe Master: Terry Smith

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Gino De Rossi (uncredited)

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Uberto Bertacca
Set Dresser: Peter James

MISCELLANEOUS
Continuity: Pamela Davies

LOCATIONS
Studios: Twickenham Film Studios. London; Rizzoli Palatino, Rome
Locations: Bigbury-on-Sea, Devon, England, UK; Tunisia

CAST
Kirk Douglas (Robert Caine)
Simon Ward (Angelo Caine)
Agostina Belli (Sara Golan)
Anthony Quayle (Professor Griffith)
Alexander Knox (Meyer)
Virginia McKenna (Eva Caine)
Spiros Focás (Harbin)
Ivo Garrani (the Prime Minister)
Massimo Foschi (Arab assassin)
Romolo Valli (Charrier)
John Carlin (Robertson)
Peter Cellier (Sheckley)
Gerard Hely (Clarke)
Penelope Horner (Caine's secretary)
Caroline Horner (real name: Caroline Langrishe) (Angela's girlfriend)
Jenny Twigg (air hostess)
Richard Cornish (1st journalist)
Denis Lawson (2nd journalist)
John Bancroft (3rd journalist)
Joanne Dainton (nurse)
Geoffrey Keen (gynaecologist)
Alan Hendricks (fanatical demonstrator)
Adolfo Celi (Dr Kerouac)

PLOT SUMMARY

Industrial executive Robert Caine is building a massive nuclear power plant in the Middle East. But he comes to learn that his son Angelo in actually the Antichrist who has his own agenda for wanting to see the power plant completed - could he be planning to use it to bring about the prophecies of a "rain of fire?"

Not De Martino's finest hour by a long chalk, Holocaust 2000 is an oportunistic attempt to cash in on the global success of The Omen (1976). A dreadful script is badly acted by an embarrassed looking cast and De Martino's direction is as blandly efficient as any seen in a disposable made for TV movie.

UK
Theatrical Distributor: Rank Film Distributors
Video Distributor: Rank Video (0135C)

USA
Theatrical Distributor: American International Pictures
Video Distributors: Fox Video; Vestron Video

Australia
Rating: R

Finland
Rating: K-18

France
Rating: -16

Sweden
Rating: 15

UK
Rating: X

USA
Rating: R

1977
November
25: Italy - theatrical release

1978
January
9: UK - rated X by the BBFC (for theatrical release, with no cuts)

March
22: France - theatrical release

November
10: West Germany - theatrical release

1979
March
16: Finland - theatrical release

August
27: Sweden - theatrical release

The world will be destroyed in a rain of fire. It is written.

The Chosen
Holocauste 2000 - French title
Inferno 2000 - German title
Rain of Fire - US title
Terrori 2000 - Finnish title
Wybrani - Polish title

SEE ALSO
The Omen (1976)

OTHER SOURCES

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KEYWORDS

antichrist; the apocalypse; businessmen; nuclear power; middle east; deserts; industrialists; possession; prophecies; the bible; religion; revenge; the supernatural; visions; decapitations; helicopters