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Director: Alberto De Martino
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From Time Out Film Guide
A straight rip-off from The Omen. This time it's an American industrialist, not an American ambassador, who sires the Antichrist, but in other respects the familiar rush-towards-apocalypse is all here, right down to the various decapitations. If only the film-makers had paid less attention to plot detail in The Omen and more to its acute construction and direction, they might have pulled it off; but Holocaust 2000 bears most of the worst traces of international co-production, notably a sense of disunity between cast and direction, some poor dubbing, and lines of dialogue that sound just like subtitles ('Your mother used to blame you subconsciously for being the only one to survive'). Everyone's pulling hard, only it's all too obvious they're not pulling in the same direction.Author: DP
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- Posted on Nov 21 2007 20:42 I thought this was a great film & it terrified a young neighbour ofmine who came knocking on m doorvery late at night becasue she was too scared to be at home on her own! I have been trying to buy this film for yarsbut no-one has it for sale - not that have found yet.
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Cast & crew
Director: Alberto De Martino
Producer: Edmondo Amati
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Simon Ward, Agostina Belli, Anthony Quayle, Virginia McKenna, Alexander Knox, Adolfo Celi full cast
Genre(s): Horror
Duration: 102 mins
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