The commercial and critical success of The Exorcist upon its release in late 1973 led to an increase in major studios investing in big budget, star driven horror films. The Omen (1976) further established this horror renaissance, which moved away from the traditional gothic horror of Hammer Studios and Roger Corman’s AIP releases. Horror was now about evil and biblical predictions manifesting in the modern world. As ever, with any successful film or genre, there are those subsequent productions that seek to imitate and cash-in. Holocaust 2000 is such a film. A British-Italian co-production, it features Kirk Douglas (who does much of the film’s heavy lifting), several well known British character actors and some notably violent set pieces. It takes the fashionable theological threat of the Antichrist and also adds an interesting nuclear angle, where a fusion plant built to solve the energy crisis could prove to be a harbinger of doom.