Post apocalyptic films

Idiocracy. We're in their apocalypse now.

The DAWN OF THE DEAD remake is not better than the original. Scarier and slicker-looking. Not bad.

But it doesn't have the charm and humor of the original; nor was it as groundbreaking, successful and influential as the original.

At any rate, I like:

MAD MAX: FURY ROAD

The original MAD MAXES/ ROAD WARRIOR

28 DAYS LATER

28 WEEKS LATER

SHAUN OF THE DEAD

THE WALKING DEAD

WORLD WAR Z

I AM LEGEND

TERMINATOR

TERMINATOR 2

TERMINATOR: DARK FATE

ZOMBIELAND (the sequel is shit)

A QUIET PLACE

BIRD BOX

IT COMES AT NIGHT

CHILDREN OF MEN

RESIDENT EVIL on a very B-movie level. Flashy fight porn and rich images; not very original literature.

HUNGER GAMES

ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK

PLANET OF THE APES (all)

QUIET EARTH

SNOWPIERCER

THE MATRIX

THE TURBO KID

MAGGIE is on my Bucket Queue. It's supposed to be very good.

Carriers

World War Z, War of the Worlds, Contagion, The Day After, 28 Days Later, Deep Impact, The Day After Tomorrow.

Roland Emmerich's disaster movies have camp value. His 2012 movie, about humanity building arks for the Mayan calendar apocalypse, actually had some thrills for me, But it's still Emmerich campy.

The WAR OF THE WORLDS with Tom Cruise was good.

I remember THE DAY AFTER ON TV. It scared me as a kid.

Train To Busan

Hidden starring Alexander Skarsgard. It was a pre-Stranger Things film by The Duffer Brothers.

Miss Turner will continue our soundtrack for the thread:

Not a film but a limited series - Black Summer (Netflix). I enjoyed it, especially the first half.

The Mad Max films are quite homoerotic.

I'm going to say both The Day After, and The Day After Tomorrow.

The Signal (not the one starring DL fave Brenton Thwaites)

End of the world movie that will make you chuckle - The Happening!

Rifftrax did The Happening.

Miracle Mile starring Anthony Edwards and Mare Winningham. Mare's horrible mullet aside, it's an excellent film about the possibility of the planet becoming nuked.

Also, Invasion of the Body Snathers. The '78 version. Paranoia at its best - and scariest.

THIS IS THE END will make you chuckle.

I didn’t care for the digital zombies but “I Am Legend” has some effective moments.

The zombies in I AM LEGEND are vampires. Woopsie! I guess you haven't really seen it.

You'll pardon me if I throw in some post-apocalyptic jams before the Redundant Thread Copycat steals my idea.

You want extremely bleak post-apocalyptic, try "The Divide." Made me never want to survive any mass disaster.

[quote] The zombies in I AM LEGEND are vampires.

In the novel, yes. The creatures are so well defined in the movie which was clearly trying to cater to the zombie craze of the time.

Oprah and most critics liked THE ROAD, but I found it underwhelming.

Dawn of the Dead, Shaun of the Dead, War of the Worlds, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (original)

The Road is very depressing. Even if the Corona virus would kill 99% of all people, we still have food, sunshine, animals and hope. The world in the Road is probably the most depressing scenario I've ever seen in a disaster movie.

The Blade Runner 2049 was awesome.

Mad Max Fury if you like your men bound, gagged and as a hood ornament.

Does Gattaca qualify? Maybe it's more dystopian than post-apocalyptic. But it has really stuck with me.

r34 - Sure! Hunger Games is listed here also.

Cloverfield and 10 Cloverfield Lane.

Night of the Comet!

Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World.

Last Night - quirky Canadian film

By far the best apocalyptic film is Children of Men. Everything about it was incredibly well done.

If you liked “A Quiet Place” and “Birdbox”...

...well, you still probably won’t like “The Silence” on Netflix. It had its moments though!

Sort of fits the genre....”The Circle”, an alien invasion film where humans are forced to turn on one another. It’s on Netflix.

R4O There was no apocalypse.

On the Beach

Birdbox was a piece of shit.

There was so a viral apocalypse in CHILDREN OF MEN. Britain was one of the last places that had government.

The franchise that broke Dylan O'Brien's gorgeous face was THE MAZE RUNNER.

It was popular juvenile literature. But I found it to be derivative with shades of Mormon and libertarian propaganda.

I'm glad that people on this site are finally taking my recommendations for TRAIN TO BUSAN and SNOWPIERCER. I think the success of PARASITE has a lot to do with that.

Next I want to turn you on to a gem of a film, which the filmmakers say was inspired by Italian MAD MAX ripoffs in the '80s.

It's retro '80s cool, charming and funny.

Yes, avoid that Shyamalan Shit Show THE HAPPENING unless you're making fun of it.

Threads

Thank you, r37. This looks campy. "We're talking ghost town!!!!" in Manhattan is very relevant today.

And it has the chick from THE LAST STARFIGHTER and THE APPLE! I must Bimunize it at once.

OP I totally agree the remake was way better than the original. It was both scary AND hilarious, and the soundtrack kicked ass. Who can forget this classic scene?

R51 Night of the Comet is a lot of fun! Such a CLASSIC '80s film, watching it today it's almost as if it's a contemporary film made to look like one from the 1980s: the heavily synthed music, clothing, hair, classic "yuppie" cars (Porsche 911), even the weaponry mirrors those used in '80s action flicks (Uzi, Mac-10 submachine guns).

Chist on a stick - nobody mentions Soylent Green?

Testament.

I love the Day After Tomorrow for the special effects and the beautiful 22 year old Jake Gyllenhaal.

The Omega Man

and

The World, the Flesh and the Devil

and

The Day of the Triffids (1951)

No, The Day After for me. Gave me nightmares for years after seeing it as a kid living in the KCMO Metro.

I will check out some others based on the recommendations!

I hope "Mr. Hilarious" @ R52 never misuses the word "classic" in-person with others. Nor should he set foot on stage.

THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW is a camp fest. Another heavy-handed shitastrophe from Roland Emmerich.

The fastest those radical environmental changes ever took place in the fossil record was over 100 years. But the ice in the movie is going to chase Jake Gyllenhaal down the hallway, really?

We need to distinguish post-apocalyptic movies from dystopias and simple disaster films.

SOYLENT GREEN is not an apocalypse because there isn't an overthrow of the government, no immediate catastrophe and no radical reorder of the environment changing life as we know it permanently.

American government, law and order remain in place with SOYLENT GREEN. It's more of a dystopia where the extremes of pollution and plutocracy have spoiled life for the underclass, i.e., dinner.

And CLOVERFIELD is just a disaster movie. It's one monster wreaking havoc like Godzilla who can be hunted, killed and over so society can go back to normal. It's not a catastrophic upheaval of all government and the environment from which there is no return.

R19 and R30 Another vote for Invasion of The Body Snatchers and I think both the original and the remake have their merits.

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Does anybody remember THE QUIET EARTH British film from 1985?

My mom rented it when I was a kid. I distinctly remember the lead Bruno Lawrence walking around buck naked for fun once he discovers he's one of the last people on Earth. That was probably the first time I'd ever seen full frontal, male nudity in ay kind of motion picture.

Which brings me to Z FOR ZACHARIAH, a thrilling love-triangle set during a post-nuclear apocalypse starring hottie Chris Pine, Margot Robbie and Chiwetel Ejiofor ...

All of The Planet of the Apes films.

... which brings me to THE LAST MAN ON EARTH, if you need a hilarious spin during these trying times. Will Forte will definitely have you laughing out loud constantly if you feel like binge-watching a whole series under quarantine for 4 weeks or more.

The Healing Power of Laughter may not cure the Coronavirus, but it will definitely soothe it as the world goes to hell in a hand basket. I also prescribe a SHAUN OF THE DEAD with a follow-up dose of THIS IS THE END!

There's been much ado about Steven Soderbergh's CONTAGION being prescient and relevant now.

But does anybody remember the mother of U.S. contagion and quarantine stories, OUTBREAK? America needs Morgan Freeman now.

I cannot stand Dustin Hoffman anymore. That story about getting naked in a hotel room with his 16 yr old daughter's best friend did him in for me.

Dustin Hoffman is at his most obnoxious in [italic]Outbreak[/italic]. I could not finish it. And why is Kevin Spacey's hair reddish brown?

R64 Quiet Earth is not a British film.

Knowing with Nicolas Cage.

It’s NZ as I recall r71

Am I the only one who would lick Lord Humungus' shitter?

If only there were a Humungus among us.

Fisting for compliments.

Judas Priest meets Iron Maiden meets Tom of Finland.

I'd be Toecutter's bitch. His hands are enormous!

Logan's Run!

Mamma Mia 2

Logan's Run is a classic dystopia. Yes, I know there was an environmental catastrophe in the backstory. But you'll notice the environment had recovered when they broke outside the city.

Those were some AMAZING visual effects, though.

Apparently Vincent Price was in the first adaptation of I AM LEGEND. Has anyone seen the Non-Will Forte LAST MAN ON EARTH?

I guess we would be remiss not to mention all of the George Romero zombie films, including the most influential one of them all ...

A very young Don Johnson in, "A Boy and His Dog", written by Harlan Ellison. The novel is so much better. Warning, the trailer can give you seizures:

[quote] The Road is very depressing. Even if the Corona virus would kill 99% of all people, we still have food, sunshine, animals and hope. The world in the Road is probably the most depressing scenario I've ever seen in a disaster movie.

And I’m convinced the family at the end eat the kid after the closing credits!

Lord Humungus was played by Swedish Olympic trainer Kjell Nilsson.

Mmmm ...

[quote] American government, law and order remain in place with SOYLENT GREEN. It's more of a dystopia where the extremes of pollution and plutocracy have spoiled life for the underclass, i.e., dinner.

Thanks for the spoiled movie!

Cherry 2000

So bad, it's bad!

Spoilent Green!

This was always my favourite apocalypticish movie

Guilty pleasure.

One of the TOP 10 BEST EVER Horror Comedies of all time has an apocalyptic premise and is scarcely known.

But you will laugh your ASS off. If the Coronavirus doesn't kill you, SLITHER will!!

FYI, the homeless people in my city are now coping with the Coronavirus by sporting Umbrella Corps umbrellas from RESIDENT EVIL.

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While a planet-wide apocalypse is averted (maybe?) int he last very confusing five minutes, Tobe Hooper's "Lifeforce" is worth a look. The increasingly ugly Lovecraftian implications of the story are matched by some still very creepy effects and a hellish Hiroshima-meets-the-Blitz vision of London in flames as the populace seeks to flee a mysterious "plague". The Prime Minister is infected, hot dudes battle their way through vampire-crowded streets and the exquisitely beautiful Matilda May stalks through the carnage stark naked.

An equally bizarre film, Fulci's "The Beyond" sees the coming of Hell on Earth when a mansion in New Orleans is revealed to be the gate to the Underworld. Striking photography and beautiful settings are offset by campy acting, gory effects and a storyline that seems to have been lifted from fragments of a dream.

Also an averted apocalypse, but try not to think of the Coronavirus when viewing the firehouse explosions and subsequent dispersal of spirits in Ghostbusters. Just try. They'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too.