Creation of the Damned (1974)
"El refugio del miedo" (original title)

Director:

José Ulloa

Writers:

Miguel Sanz, José Ulloa (screenplay),

Stars:

Craig Hill, Patty Shepard, Teresa Gimpera

Cast

Cast overview:
Craig Hill	...	Bob
Patty Shepard	...	Carol
Teresa Gimpera	...	Margie
Fernando Hilbeck	...	Arthur
Pedro Mari Sánchez	...	Chris
Fernando Millet	...	Sheraton

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

nuclear weapon | post nuclear war | friendship | survivor | bomb shelter

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Taglines:

Time... The not too distant future. Place... The USA. Problem... Nuclear war. Effect... A society with no rules

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Genres:

Drama

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Details

Country:

Spain

Language:

Spanish

Release Date:

March 1983 (West Germany)

Also Known As:

Refuge of Fear

Box Office

Gross:

ESP 4,294,142 (Spain) (3 September 1999)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Profilmes

Technical Specs

Runtime:

96 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Goofs

At one point in the film the shelter begins to crack because supposedly it is close to the crater of the nuclear blast, yet when one of the characters goes outside, the city and all its buildings are perfectly intact.

User Reviews

Surprisingly good post-nuke drama (5 - 10)

A husband and wife along with their son and another couple find themselves stuck in a rather sophisticated underground bomb shelter after a nuclear war, with there only contact with the outside world being a somewhat temperamental short-wave radio. But an affair between the son and the wife of their friend, along with boredom, drug abuse and diminishing supplies cause tempers to flare and things slowly descend in to desperation.

Although very low budget and almost entirely taking place in the shelter, this film struck me as oddly affective and kept me involved all the way through. 5 out of 10, relatively well written with the characters being for the most part interesting and well acted.