Post-apocolyptic movies
08-16-09 | 11:28 AM
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Post-apocolyptic movies
I tried a search for this and came up with a thread on a movie based on Avril Lavigne's Skater Boy.
I just saw the trailer for The Book of Eli and it looks good. I'm a sucker for these kinds of movies. So are there any recommendations for post-apocolyptic movies. I'll list the ones that I know of...
Mad Max 1-3
The Quiet Earth
Omega Man
I am Legend
Waterworld
The Postman
pretty much every Zombie movie
Resident Evil:extinction
the upcoming The Road
the upcoming The Book of Eli
Are there any others that I'm missing?
I just saw the trailer for The Book of Eli and it looks good. I'm a sucker for these kinds of movies. So are there any recommendations for post-apocolyptic movies. I'll list the ones that I know of...
Mad Max 1-3
The Quiet Earth
Omega Man
I am Legend
Waterworld
The Postman
pretty much every Zombie movie
Resident Evil:extinction
the upcoming The Road
the upcoming The Book of Eli
Are there any others that I'm missing?
08-16-09 | 11:36 AM
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Re: Post-apocolyptic movies
08-16-09 | 11:42 AM
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Re: Post-apocolyptic movies
haha. i relly like apocalyptical movies but I enjoy my dystopias much more. although some could be both. are you interested in dystopian films as well? how about cyber punk stuff?
08-16-09 | 11:44 AM
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08-16-09 | 12:06 PM
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Planet of the Apes
08-16-09 | 12:32 PM
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08-16-09 | 01:06 PM
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Re: Post-apocolyptic movies
Pretty comprehensive lists but I would add "Rats" to this one. One of those "it's so bad, it might be good, no wait, it still sucks, or does it?" flicks.
08-16-09 | 06:55 PM
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What was the first post-apocalyptic movie?
I'm pretty certain it was DELUGE (1933), a film made by RKO the same year as KING KONG and featuring great special effects showing a flood destroying New York City. The only existent print is dubbed in Italian. When I saw it at a theater in NYC in the 1990s, they had a translator explain what was happening as the film ran. Very odd experience. To be honest, I don't remember much about the film.
1950s post-apocalyptic movies:
ROCKETSHIP X-M (1950) - offers an interesting twist on the theme, mixing it with interplanetary travel.
FIVE (1951) Five people who are the only survivors of a nuclear war settle in a house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Directed by radio drama wizard Arch Oboler.
CAPTIVE WOMEN (1952) - post-nuke New York/pretty cool for a low-budget film.
THE DAY THE WORLD ENDED (1955) - more survivors-in-a-house after a nuke war. This one adds a mutant. Directed by Roger Corman.
THE WORLD, THE FLESH, AND THE DEVIL (1959) - a black man (Harry Belafonte) and a white woman (Inger Stevens) set up chaste housekeeping in a deserted but wholly intact New York City. Then another guy, a white guy (Mel Ferrer) shows up and he wants the woman for himself and stalks Belafonte with a rifle through a deserted Times Square and Wall Street. Shot on location.
Others:
PANIC IN YEAR ZERO (1962) - Ray Milland directed and stars as a family man in California who takes up guns to protect his family and provisions during a post-nuke breakdown in the social order.
THE OMEGA MAN (1972) - Charlton Heston in Los Angeles devastated by a biological plague and tormented by the plague's victims. The second film based on Richard Matheson's novel, "I Am Legend." (LAST MAN ON EARTH, 1964, was the first.)
I'm pretty certain it was DELUGE (1933), a film made by RKO the same year as KING KONG and featuring great special effects showing a flood destroying New York City. The only existent print is dubbed in Italian. When I saw it at a theater in NYC in the 1990s, they had a translator explain what was happening as the film ran. Very odd experience. To be honest, I don't remember much about the film.
1950s post-apocalyptic movies:
ROCKETSHIP X-M (1950) - offers an interesting twist on the theme, mixing it with interplanetary travel.
FIVE (1951) Five people who are the only survivors of a nuclear war settle in a house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Directed by radio drama wizard Arch Oboler.
CAPTIVE WOMEN (1952) - post-nuke New York/pretty cool for a low-budget film.
THE DAY THE WORLD ENDED (1955) - more survivors-in-a-house after a nuke war. This one adds a mutant. Directed by Roger Corman.
THE WORLD, THE FLESH, AND THE DEVIL (1959) - a black man (Harry Belafonte) and a white woman (Inger Stevens) set up chaste housekeeping in a deserted but wholly intact New York City. Then another guy, a white guy (Mel Ferrer) shows up and he wants the woman for himself and stalks Belafonte with a rifle through a deserted Times Square and Wall Street. Shot on location.
Others:
PANIC IN YEAR ZERO (1962) - Ray Milland directed and stars as a family man in California who takes up guns to protect his family and provisions during a post-nuke breakdown in the social order.
THE OMEGA MAN (1972) - Charlton Heston in Los Angeles devastated by a biological plague and tormented by the plague's victims. The second film based on Richard Matheson's novel, "I Am Legend." (LAST MAN ON EARTH, 1964, was the first.)
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08-17-09 | 04:29 AM
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"World Gone Wild" - kind of an obscure one, from the 1980s. Remember seeing it on HBO when I was a kid. Sort of a "Road Warrior" type of post-collapsed civilization movie that had Adam Ant in it.
As far as I know, it's unavailable on DVD, and might not even be a good movie, though it stuck in my mind all of these years for some reason.
As far as I know, it's unavailable on DVD, and might not even be a good movie, though it stuck in my mind all of these years for some reason.
08-17-09 | 07:56 AM
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This is probably my favorite sub-genre of film. I still remember being memorized by Road Warrior as a kid, and the movie is still amazing today. Some other films are:
City of Ember
12 Monkeys
Escape from New York
The Stand - Stephen King mini-series
Serenity and Firefly
City of Ember
12 Monkeys
Escape from New York
The Stand - Stephen King mini-series
Serenity and Firefly
08-17-09 | 08:19 AM
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Hell Comes To Frogtown, anyone?
08-17-09 | 09:01 AM
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1990: The Bronx Warriors
Bronx Warriors 2 (Escape From The Bronx)
2019: After The Fall of New York
New Barbarians
Mindwarp
endless others. Great thread though, I'm always looking for more
Bronx Warriors 2 (Escape From The Bronx)
2019: After The Fall of New York
New Barbarians
Mindwarp
endless others. Great thread though, I'm always looking for more
08-17-09 | 09:41 AM
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08-17-09 | 10:45 AM
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