These type movies have always been one of my favorite genres. There are all types of them-- from monsters to zombies, from aliens to natural disasters, from nuclear war to collapse of the environment.
There's the Mad Max movies, Book of Eli, Contagion, Planet of the Apes (original), Walking Dead (and other zombie movies), 12 Monkeys, Terminator series, The Road.
Then there's comedy ones like Zombieland and Shaun of the Dead.
And musicals...... like Anna and the Apocalypse.

Wondering, What are some of your favorite movies in this general genre. Many of the ones I mentioned, I liked.

Saw one about 6 months ago that was really different than any I had seen. I really liked it, watched it twice.

it is called "The Domestics". Catch it if you're able.

Purdy much sums it up. Now if slow joe wins we all will have a part.

Funny and sad at the same time....

Someone has to mention A Boy and His Dog in this thread, so I will.

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Here ya go.

"On the Beach," the 1959 movie starring Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner. Very dark and depressing.

You covered a lot of the best picks from the genre. The Road is probably the hardest for me to watch and it is documented that it left out of the movie several of the worst moments from the book.

The only one I will add is Maggie. Kind of fits into the pseudo post-apocalyptic role about as well as some of the other ones on your list but is a zombie movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. This is not the typical action and guts zombie movie...very different and probably one of Arnie's better ACTED movies that I can recall from his career.

Television series called "Jericho" was interesting.

Do read the book - The Road, if you have not. Cormac Mcarthy. Terribly dark book. Brilliant and beautiful writing. The movie does it fairly well, but not well enough. As is so often the case.

I am Legend is pretty good. I liked the Postman, many didn't.

Ya can't forget Hesston, The Omega Man & Soylent Green

There is one movie that I looked for this morning but can't remember the name. Suburbanites dealing with a power outage for days & finally deciding to bug out. They get way out of their element while out on the road.

You hit most of the high points. "A Boy and His Dog" was an early favorite.

I'd add "28 Days Later" as a pretty good zombie style movie. Not exactly end of the world but end of London as we know it.

"The Girl with All the Gifts" and "Children of Men" are well told stories with a different take on the genre.

Skip most of the apocalyptic movies from the late 70's or 80's and especially anything with "barbarians roaming the wastelands" in the plot and especially if it has outlaw/mutant/marauder gangs riding 2 stroke dirt bikes in the 22nd Century. They're not even good for a bad laugh. Except "Road Warrior", that one's great.

Omega Man and then Mad Max for the action scenes.

Bushwick is a pretty good newer flick. Starts off really good.

The Divide was pretty good, kind of slow and dark but worth a watch.

Three books on the subject that have not been made into movies, Lucifer'sHammer, Alas Babylon and One Second After. All three are good reads.

On movies there's The Day after and an old black and white from the 60", Terror From the Year Zero. Not too badly done considering it was from American International who made most of the horror and monster films of the period.
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The 1st Terminator and The Road Warrior. The Road Warrior kinda falls in line with Mad Max, but I liked it better.

I've never seen the movie but I did read the book in middle school and it was very good.

Would love to see all three of those books made into movies, although the, shall we say "racial attitudes" of Alas Babylon from the late 50's would be heavily modified today.

Just googled it and Alas, Babylon was done as a Playhouse 90 TV production in 1960. Going to have to look that up to see if it's available on one of the streaming channels.

I found it. "The trigger Effect". Not post apocalyptic but a interesting look at human nature when things get out of whack.

The book, Dies The Fire, was a really good read on post-apocalyptic life.

Good catch on Soylent Green

I did recently watch a movie where the sun was going darker called After Dark.
Wasn’t a bad movie.

Here is the full movie "The Day After". It's pretty good nad complety free and commercial free.

Fail Safe
The Day After

Some parent somewhere is saying ... WTF

Loved that show. Wish it hadn't been cancelled.



I liked The Postman a lot too, it would've benefitted from someone other than Costner as the star though. Couldn't buy him in that cole. Still, good flick!

I like the movies that show folks rising from the ashes and making a go of it getting civilization back on track. I don't dig the end of the world life sucks ones, like The Road.

The TV show Revolution was about a world where electricity just stopped working one day. It was okay if you got into the story and characters but wouldn't call it great; too much implausibility you had to overlook. I know you have to start with a bit of suspension of belief for the main premise, but they just ignore time and distance and other practicalities. People have no problem walking from the East Coast to some Western state, probably 1500-200 miles and back again in a few weeks and apparently have no need to acquire food on their journey. Stuff like that seems like sloppy writing to me.

A David Lynch Film ~ ERASERHEAD

Not a movie, and if it were made into one it would be awful, but read the post apocalyptic book Where late the sweet birds sang as an assignment in college and really enjoyed it.

Of course we had to write a paper about it and I have no recollection of what I wrote in 1983 but there are some very close parallels in it to the political/social group think we see today (and spoilers, it destroys one of the societies in the book). Well worth a read IMO.

"Light of my Life" with Casey Affleck was pretty good. Different sort of apocalypse, similar to "Children of Men".

Dredd was really well done.

Movies are for cripples and old women.

You still huddle around the radio each evening?

No, that died.

We just wait for the pigeon to bring back news of the world.

It has been a while since the pigeon was back.....GHW Bush is still president.....isn't he?

You guys need to get with the future, we get all our mail by pack mule. It’s pretty reliable until the snow gets too deep. I just got a new fire starter flint the other day.

That puts you about four light years ahead of Alaska.

Lucifer's Hammer is a good read

Wow

The Road, movie and book.

The Painted Bird, haven’t seen the new movie (don’t know if I will), but it’s one of the most disturbing books I’ve ever read.

Not a movie, but the series “Jericho” is in that genre. Pretty damn good.

Lucky!

If I could find a new hide scraping rock right now I would be in heaven.

From the one that has Rio Bravo on a 24hour loop.

Bet you could get a trumpet and just play the Deguello without any practice by now.

Thats my favorite movie.


We sometimes bust into My Rifle, My pony and Me without warning.

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Screamers.

At first I was disappointed to find out it was not a porn. But it turned out to be a good military sci fi apocalypse kind of thing.

"Neon City". Bounty hunter, Michael Ironside, not a mega production, just an interesting story.

YES! Love that movie. Such a huge improvement over the previous Stallone iteration. Really hate it didn't get the ad revenue and justifiable commercial success for a sequel. Keep hearing rumors that Karl Urban wants to reprise the role for a TV series...but who knows if that will ever happen.




Really enjoyed that movie when I was a teenager. Hate to watch it now...have a feeling it probably hasn't aged well.

The wikipedia summary makes it sound pretty rough, so does the move trailer. Might be worth a watch when in the mood.lol

Best answer yet ...... Seen it 3 times.