Product Details

• Actors: Kirk Douglas, Simon Ward, Agostina Belli, Anthony Quayle, Virginia McKenna
• Format: NTSC
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Lions Gate
• VHS Release Date: January 1, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6300260682
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #312,187 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Holocaust 2000 - a better Omen sequel than the actual Omen sequels, September 20, 2010

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Trevor Willsmer (London, England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rain of Fire (DVD)

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.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Good Kirk Douglas Film, October 11, 2009

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Trevor William Douglas (Gorokan, NSW Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rain of Fire (DVD)

Originally released as Holocaust 2000 in 1977, this print is superb and of course re-named Rain Of Fire. Quite a captivating film, it is not without it's flaws. Interesting special effects, fine supporting cast, great locations. I read the book first and I advise doing this as it will fill in the blanks. In all if you are a Kirk Douglas fan buy it.

3.0 out of 5 stars And yet another "End of the World" movie., September 4, 2011

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L. Pirozzi - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rain of Fire (DVD)

Ever get the feeling that someone just makes movies like this to break our sanity? Then again, did you ever get the feeling your child was a spawn of pure evil? A wealthy business man learns the hard way his own son is the Anti-Christ who plans to rule to world. Grim from start to finish, don't expect a happy ending in this dark tale of murder, sex and power gone completely mad.