I'll admit it, I love this genre. Jack Lord got my wheels turning in the Rocky Horror remake thread so who else likes these films and which ones? I'd like to find a few I've missed. (Omit the zombie films though as those are deserving of their own thread anyway.) Have at it -

Mad Max
Omega Man
Cherry 2000
Le Dernier Combat
A Boy and His Dog
The Postman (let the rotten vegetable throwing commence)
The Ultimate Warrior (although it has been years since I saw it)

No Question:

When Worlds Collide (natural)
On the Beach (man made)

Soylent....green...is...people !!!!

On the Beach - the original, although the new one is OK too.
Testament
The Quiet Earth

Tank Girl - just for the sheer stupidity of it...
Damnation Alley - same reason


This may be slightly out of genre:
Silent Running
Red Dawn

Damn the Punctuation Nanny..My last post was all in capitals & the One Who Knows Better wouldn't let it stand as such...Another one would be the "Planet of the Apes" series.

Apocalyptica now (that was easy )

You took my favorites!
I love Soylent Green,
and I have a Boy and His Dog on betamax and it looks great.

Soylent....green...is...people !!!!

Oh yes! :thmbsp:

"Get your hands off of me you damned dirty ape...."

Also...

Silent Running with Bruce Dern

Escape From New York
Blade Runner (was this post-apocalyptic?)

The Last Man on Earth (first version of I Am Legend before The Omega Man)

Battlestar Galactica (not a movie but certainly post Apocalyptic)

I don't know if they have made a film of it, but you guys should read "Ape & Essence" by Aldous Huxley. Post Apocalyptic Los Angeles, demon worshipers and orgies in the ruins of the LA Memorial Coliseum.

Great stuff here, quite a few I hadn't considered.

Shame on me for missing Red Dawn. "Wolverines" is my sig on another board too!

"Silent Running" I would have put into Sci-Fi but it makes complete sense in this regard. It is a really overlooked and underpraised film.

And for a humorous look at this setting:

"A Boy And His Dog", starring a young Don Johnson. :D

I really really liked 'I Am Legend'.

Wasn't Cherry 2000 about a guy who tries to get his hooker/robot back?


Been a Loooooong time since I saw that one!

I'd prolly say Mad Max for me.


Matt

The original War of the Worlds
and also When Worlds Collide

I don't recall if it was post apocalypse or just post the-oil-ran-out, but there was one back in the early 80's called "The Last Chase" with Lee Majors and Chris Makepeace (Rudy from Meatballs). Living in a totalitarian state where there is no oil, Majors, a former racecar driver, takes his car across country to California, a free state. He stops and siphons the dregs out of old gas station tanks to make it. I recall it being really hokey but entertaining.

For another hokey but fun romp through a post apocalyptic world, how about Judge Dredd?

And I guess technically, The Matrix trilogy was post apocalyptic too.

Ray

OK, heheheh, as cruel as it may be, here's my list of favorite Post Apocolyptic movies:
1. 12 Monkeys-Bruce Willis Madeline Stowe
2. The World, The Flesh and The Devil-Harry Belafonte Ingrid Bergman
3. The Road Warrior-Mel Gibson
4. Waterworld-Kevin Costner Dennis Hopper
5. The Day After Tomorrow-Dennis Quaid
6. Independence Day-Bill Pullman Will Smith
7. Deep Impact-Tea Leone
8. The Core-Hilary Swank Delroy Lindo
9. Freejack-Emilio Estevez Rene Russo Mick Jagger
10. Soldier-Kurt Russell
11. Solarbabies-Richard Jordan
12. Outland-Sean Connery
13. The Island-Scarlett Johannson
14. Postman-Kevin Costner
15. Cherry 2000-Pamela Gidley Melanie Griffith David Andrews
16. Slipstream(Mark Hamill & Bill Paxton)
17. Split Second-Rutger Hauer
18. Blade Runner-Harrison Ford
19. Terminator 1,2,3-Arnold Swarzenegger
20. Matrix 1,2,3-Keanu Reeves
21. The Running Man-Swarzenegger Richard Dawson
22. Omega Man-Charlton Heston
23. Escape from New York-Kurt Russell
24. Escape from L.A.-Kurt Russell
25. The Time Machine-Guy Pearce
26. Starship Troopers-Casper Van Dien Denise Richards

Thats all that comes to my mind right now, but I know there's more:)

Charlie:nutz:

Hell Comes To Frogtown

Death Race 2000

I don't recall if it was post apocalypse or just post the-oil-ran-out, but there was one back in the early 80's called "The Last Chase" with Lee Majors and Chris Makepeace (Rudy from Meatballs). Living in a totalitarian state where there is no oil, Majors, a former racecar driver, takes his car across country to California, a free state. He stops and siphons the dregs out of old gas station tanks to make it. I recall it being really hokey but entertaining.




The Last Chase was not about running out of oil. The Totalitarian state did away with cars, and Public Mass Transit was put in place. This was after a plague (it was speculated that it was the swine flu) wiped a good portion of the population.

On the Beach (the original Stanley Kramer film; there was a remake!?)
Testament
Silent Running (only an ecological apocalypse, but still...)

If you'll extend the definition to "peri-apocalyptic" films, Stanley Kubrick made two of the best:

Dr. Strangelove
2001 (A Space Odessy)

The Last Chase was not about running out of oil. The Totalitarian state did away with cars, and Public Mass Transit was put in place. This was after a plague (it was speculated that it was the swine flu) wiped a good portion of the population.

Ah cool, someone else has seen it. Thanks for the clarification. I haven't seen it since it hit cable back in the 80's. Just remembered the car being chased by a jet (?) through a wasteland.

Ray

The recent flick, "Children of Men," is quite good.

Great brit-pop tunes and visual treats for Pink Floyd fans.

Logan's Run. I loves me some cheese.

Does this count: the episode of the Twilight Zone where Burgess Meredith is the sole survivor of an apocalypse, and now has time to read all the books he could ever want to... if he hadn't just broke his glasses, that is...

On the animated side of post-apocalyptic:

Titan-A.E.

On the bizarre side:

Six String Samurai and The Day Of The Triffids

As far as my favorites, most were already mentioned; but, I especially enjoyed the plotline behind 12 Monkeys, Logan's Run, and The Omega Man.

And, IMHO, some of the best were The Terminator Trilogy.

. . Falcon

The Road Warrior is my all time favorite.
Avoid "Doomsday" at all costs.

On the animated side of post-apocalyptic:

Titan-A.E.



Seconded! My whole family loves that movie.

The Day Of The Triffids

I liked the movie until I read the book this summer. It really should have a different title as that is the only thing in common other than hostile plants. To put this in context, the original title was "Revolt of the Triffids". Why revolt? They were being farmed & crushed for their oil content! Puts a little different spin on things, yes? I kept thinking "28 Days Later" as I read the book as that is the feel to it. A truly great read and unlike many sci-fi books from the the 50's, it reads like a contemporary work. It is well worth hunting down if you enjoy this genre. The characters are well developed, average people caught up in a situation they clearly are not prepared for; sentient plant life with organization skills. I truly wish Wyndham had written the follow-up to it.

http://www.sfhub.ac.uk/Wyndhamimages/Triffids%20book%20cover.jpg

Ah cool, someone else has seen it. Thanks for the clarification. I haven't seen it since it hit cable back in the 80's. Just remembered the car being chased by a jet (?) through a wasteland.

Ray

In fact Lee Major's was a spokesman for the Transportation Ministry. He went around giving lectures on the merits of the "state" run system.

Yeah it was Burgess Meredith flying an F-86 Sabre Jet.

Malevil (1981):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malevil

On the animated side of post-apocalyptic:

Titan-A.E.

The scene where the bad guys attack earth and they launch the big ship is a great demo scene for your HT setup.

In fact Lee Major's was a spokesman for the Transportation Ministry. He went around giving lectures on the merits of the "state" run system.

Yeah it was Burgess Meredith flying an F-86 Sabre Jet.

Wow, you're the Last Chase authority! Now I'm going to have to see if I can dig it up.

Ray

Malevil (1981):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malevil

Thank you for that.

French Sci-Fi is a treat!

Death Race 2000!!!

The Road Warrior
A Boy and His Dog
Escape from New York (more accurate category - Best Post-Apocalypse Boobs)
Waterworld (just kidding but Dennis Hopper was great as the head of the smokers)

I vaguely remember a movie about broadcasting pirate radio from a plane that never landed. Anybody recall it?

Thank you for that.

French Sci-Fi is a treat!

I just saw it once when it came out, but I remember a very good movie
overall. There was a guy building a radio transmitter from the parts
of a discarded TV set, it should be interesting to watch with more
sophisticated eyes than at the time.

Unfortunately, this does not seem to be available with English
dubbing or subtitles, as far as I can see.

I can't believe nobody mentioned Day the World Ended, and The Last Man on Earth.
Jack

Night of the Comet.

I enjoy all 3 Resident Evil movies....

Wow, you're the Last Chase authority! Now I'm going to have to see if I can dig it up.

Ray


If you find it, let me know. I have only seen it once and it would be fun to see it again.

Robert

I truly wish Wyndham had written the follow-up to it.

http://www.sfhub.ac.uk/Wyndhamimages/Triffids%20book%20cover.jpg


Check out his book "The Kracken Wakes", its better than Triffids (just), I am a massive Whyndham fan and all his books (novels and short story collections) are fantastic

my favorite post-apocalyptic films are Shaun of the Dead, Cherry 2000 and Mad Max.

Thank you for that.

French Sci-Fi is a treat!

Unlike the French themselves, lol...:D

I can't believe nobody mentioned Day the World Ended, and The Last Man on Earth.
Jack


I mentioned the latter.

Another one is that Twilight Zone episode with Burgess Meredith as the bookworm.

Another one is that Twilight Zone episode with Burgess Meredith as the bookworm.

But he had so much time.......

Check out his book "The Kracken Wakes", its better than Triffids (just), I am a massive Whyndham fan and all his books (novels and short story collections) are fantastic

I'll do it!

I liked the movie until I read the book this summer. It really should have a different title as that is the only thing in common other than hostile plants. To put this in context, the original title was "Revolt of the Triffids". Why revolt? They were being farmed & crushed for their oil content! Puts a little different spin on things, yes? I kept thinking "28 Days Later" as I read the book as that is the feel to it. A truly great read and unlike many sci-fi books from the the 50's, it reads like a contemporary work. It is well worth hunting down if you enjoy this genre. The characters are well developed, average people caught up in a situation they clearly are not prepared for; sentient plant life with organization skills. I truly wish Wyndham had written the follow-up to it.

http://www.sfhub.ac.uk/Wyndhamimages/Triffids%20book%20cover.jpg

Day of the Triffids is an excellent book. The Howard Keel movie is decent, but you are right, it doesn't follow the book too closely. Simon Clarke wrote a sequel called Night of the Triffids that isn't too bad. Wyndham also wrote The Midwich Cuckoos, which was made into the movie The Village of the Damned, about alien children implanted in human women, apparently as a sort of fifth column.

"Waterworld" would've been a much better movie if they'dve hired an editor. Brutal cutting would've taken out about 45 minutes of worthless crap and made it work a lot better. Must agree with those who mentioned "Silent Running". It should be required viewing from about middle school on.

Toy Story.

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Toy Story.

Barkeep, I'll have what he's having...

Barkeep, I'll have what he's having...

This is a good man....

I don't recall if it was post apocalypse or just post the-oil-ran-out, but there was one back in the early 80's called "The Last Chase" with Lee Majors and Chris Makepeace (Rudy from Meatballs). Living in a totalitarian state where there is no oil, Majors, a former racecar driver, takes his car across country to California, a free state. He stops and siphons the dregs out of old gas station tanks to make it. I recall it being really hokey but entertaining.

For another hokey but fun romp through a post apocalyptic world, how about Judge Dredd?

And I guess technically, The Matrix trilogy was post apocalyptic too.

Ray

I remember that movie! Didn't Burgess Meredith play an old retired fighter pilot? Sure it's the same movie.

I remember that movie! Didn't Burgess Meredith play an old retired fighter pilot? Sure it's the same movie.

Says the authority on that particular flick...

Yeah it was Burgess Meredith flying an F-86 Sabre Jet.

I'm on the lookout for it now. So far I've only found used VHS for ~$35. :yikes:


Ray

I'm looking forward to the new Terminator film (starring Christian Bale) due out next...spring, I think.

The Last Chase was not about running out of oil. The Totalitarian state did away with cars, and Public Mass Transit was put in place. This was after a plague (it was speculated that it was the swine flu) wiped a good portion of the population.

IIRC, it was the Arab States placed an embargo on the U.S. and West. I remember Lee Majors making a point where perhaps the "Arabs are tired of driving 30 year old Cadillacs." I'd place the movie in the 2005-2010 timeframe.

Let's see, I like "Dr. Strangelove" and "Failsafe." The latter actually avoided the apocalypse but it could have happened.

"Threads" was really scary, the British film from 1984 that went from just before World War III to 13 years later. Another British one, "The War Game," was made in 1965 but it was banned for a while, I have a copy of it somewhere.

"No Blade of Grass," another British one, 1971, where grass type crops like grains and so forth get a plague in Europe and there is food shortages. Some people did make it to the U.S. that was unaffected but the film focused on the survivors left behind.

Toy Story.

The mind boggles.

;)

"Waterworld" would've been a much better movie if they'dve hired an editor. Brutal cutting would've taken out about 45 minutes of worthless crap and made it work a lot better.

I would have been happier if they'd left the footage in but tightened the story up.....a but. There was as much right as wrong with it I surely agree.

Day of the Triffids is an excellent book. The Howard Keel movie is decent, but you are right, it doesn't follow the book too closely. Simon Clarke wrote a sequel called Night of the Triffids that isn't too bad. Wyndham also wrote The Midwich Cuckoos, which was made into the movie The Village of the Damned, about alien children implanted in human women, apparently as a sort of fifth column.

Wyndham moved to the top of my list of SF authors I want to read more of. I will have to track down the Clarke book. The reviews are mixed between hatred & rapture so it should be interesting.

Watched Doomsday last night. Story line was not too bad and I had reasonable expectation considering both Bob Hoskins & Malcolm McDowell were in it, albeit in supporting roles. Unfortunately it was filmed in Super-Extra-Splat-&-Gore-O-Rama and the story went to the back of the bus real quick. I'd say gratuitous in execution but that doesn't quite go far enough. About 25% of the film is devoted to dismemberment, incineration, decapitation, heads being blown apart, hands severed, bodies run over & squashed, well, you get the idea.

Shifting gears a bit, any of you ever read the book "Warday" by Whitley Strieber & James Kunetka ? It was a novel about events that took place about 5 years after a Soviet strike. They got New York & DC, the missile bases in the Dakotas, & San Antonio- but the South & California were pretty much spared. The most damage was NOT caused by the bombs as much as it was by the EFFECTS of the bombs- EMP damage rendered most electronic devices useless, except tube stuff, there were weird new diseases, the Japanese pretty much ran what was left of the western US, while Great Britain ran the East, lots of famines, etc. It was told in a semi-documentary fashion & it was obvious the authors had done their homework, which made the book even more chiiling. It came out in '83, & was set in '93.

Shifting gears a bit, any of you ever read the book "Warday" by Whitley Strieber & James Kunetka ? It was a novel about events that took place about 5 years after a Soviet strike. They got New York & DC, the missile bases in the Dakotas, & San Antonio- but the South & California were pretty much spared. The most damage was NOT caused by the bombs as much as it was by the EFFECTS of the bombs- EMP damage rendered most electronic devices useless, except tube stuff, there were weird new diseases, the Japanese pretty much ran what was left of the western US, while Great Britain ran the East, lots of famines, etc. It was told in a semi-documentary fashion & it was obvious the authors had done their homework, which made the book even more chiiling. It came out in '83, & was set in '93.

I've read it. It is bleak but a good read. If you liked it you would probably like "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy. A film based on the book is due in November and stars Viggo Mortensen as the main character.

No Spoilers In This Thread Please. (Not everyone will read the book.)

Time Machine(1960) with Rod Taylor and Yvette Mimieux

Shifting gears a bit, any of you ever read the book "Warday" by Whitley Strieber & James Kunetka ? It was a novel about events that took place about 5 years after a Soviet strike. They got New York & DC, the missile bases in the Dakotas, & San Antonio- but the South & California were pretty much spared. The most damage was NOT caused by the bombs as much as it was by the EFFECTS of the bombs- EMP damage rendered most electronic devices useless, except tube stuff, there were weird new diseases, the Japanese pretty much ran what was left of the western US, while Great Britain ran the East, lots of famines, etc. It was told in a semi-documentary fashion & it was obvious the authors had done their homework, which made the book even more chiiling. It came out in '83, & was set in '93.

Sounds like the first book of a "California trilogy" written by SF writer Kim Stanley Robinson. The first book was called The Wild Shore. The others are The Gold Coast and Pacific Edge

would be Sailor Song, by Ken Kesey. Truly an excellent read. Although I guess it's more of a "during-" than "post-" apocalyptical piece....

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I would rather say 2017 Inauguration Ball, guaranteed to feature a
different Feature Actor/Actress with respect to 2009!

The "Stand"...Steven King, book better than mini-series,....."Alas Babylon'.
"Logan's Run",....."Silent Running"......."Babylon 5"......"Red Dawn".......
Cheers, T

How about 1984?

Barkeep, I'll have what he's having...

ya know, from a toy's point of view, that's not a crazy pick :scratch2:

I'll also vote for Tank Girl. There's just something about a girl showering in sand...not to mention strapping on a torpedo bra and yelling
"Die Die Die Die!"

Planet of the Apes is probably my favorite, but there are many that are close
This isn't really post apocalyptic, but the Warriors is a classic.
I think Mystic would agree

By the way I have the book Warday and have read it more then once. I actually have a Kearny Fallout Meter kit that I haven't built yet. The time may come.

Stalker. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalker_(film))

Yeah, it's a pretty weird movie.

A very underrated movie IMO is "Day of the Triffids."

You will never take your sight for granted ever again!

Rome

Wasn't Cherry 2000 about a guy who tries to get his hooker/robot back?




Yes. Rather than post apocalyptic, it was set in a post mass STD scare. In the opening scene in a singles bar, a man (maybe the main character) is talking to a woman and she has a printed questionnaire, with questions like how many people have you slept with, use protection, etc.

and no one mentioned Brasil.
regards F.

All three of the original George Romero dead films. And an animated nuke movie that is so depressing it is unbearable called "When the Wind Blows" Roger Waters in the soundtrack I believe. It is hiding in my VHS tapes some where.

28 Days Later
The British miniseries "Threads"
Testament

Five (1951, Arch Oboler)
Panic In Year Zero! (Ray Milland is THE MAN)
The Last Man on Earth Both this and The Omega Man start better than they finish in my opinion, but the first 20 minutes of Last Man on Earth are devastating. Omega Man overplays the nihilism IMO, where Vincent Price is truer to the book in playing it straight. I haven't watched I Am Legend yet
Day The World Ended Very cool monster
The Last Woman on Earth Good Roger Corman potboiler
This Is Not A Test (a low budgeter from 1962, mainly a character study, plays kind of like a long Twilight Zone episode)
The Year 2889 (Larry Buchanan's remake of Corman's Day The World Ended)
The World, The Flesh and The Devil (featuring a couple of post-apocalyptic calypso tunes by Belafonte)
Teenage Caveman (oops, I gave away the ending)
Planet of The Apes (oops, did it again)
Road Warrior
Day of The Triffids speaking of which, I recently got the Cheezy Flix widescreen DVD from Sears.com for only $12. Its decent quality, the sound is a little rough, but much better than the video I had. The Allied Artists DVD is reviewed poorly for its quality.

And speaking of Twilight Zone episodes, "Two" featuring Charles Bronson and Elizabeth Montgomery.

Panic In Year Zero! (Ray Milland is THE MAN)

I've only seen this once when I was young.

Wouldn't mind seeing it again as I do recall it being good.

Any Cormac McCarthy fans?

The Road is on its way -

http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/080813/20-must-see-movies/the-road_l.jpg

Panic in Year Zero!
I've only seen this once when I was young.

Wouldn't mind seeing it again as I do recall it being good.



Panic in Year Zero! is available on an MGM midnite movies DVD along with The Last Man on Earth. Netflix even has it listed as available for instant viewing over the computer, (not sure which feature they're referring to or if both).

Ok, some of these are post apocalyptic and others are actually Dystopias......Blade Runner, The Handmaids Tale, 1984, Children Of men...etc are actually Dystopias...
Mad Max, A Boy and His Dog, The Postman etc..are post apocalyptic...either way, like Toy Story, they are very cool & thought provoking material

Ok, some of these are post apocalyptic and others are actually Dystopias......Blade Runner, The Handmaids Tale, 1984, Children Of men...etc are actually Dystopias...
Mad Max, A Boy and His Dog, The Postman etc..are post apocalyptic...either way, like Toy Story, they are very cool & thought provoking material

:scratch2:

Don't most of the post-apocalyptic films mentioned easily meet the definition for a dystopia though?

I've always thought of dystopia as the top-level category with subsets such as post-apocalyptic, cyberpunk fitting within it.

:scratch2:

Don't most of the post-apocalyptic films mentioned easily meet the definition for a dystopia though?

I've always thought of dystopia as the top-level category with subsets such as post-apocalyptic, cyberpunk fitting within it.

I see dystopia as a possible (and conceivably currently operative) extension of modern or post-modern society without some sort of apocalyptic/cataclysmic reduction in the population of the human race or its means to sustain itself. See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dystopia

And "The Rapture" (1991) with Mimi Rogers and David Duchovny was a sort of pre/post movie that deserves mention.

I see dystopia as a possible (and conceivably currently operative) extension of modern or post-modern society without some sort of apocalyptic/cataclysmic reduction in the population of the human race or its means to sustain itself. See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dystopia

And I raise you this wiki -

post apocalyptic, a subset of dystopia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dystopian_films)

As far as dystopias, Fahrenheit 451. You gotta love a movie with only spoken credits. And some of Bernard Hermann's best work for the score.
The book is even better. While other sci-fi writers were content to predict things like space travel and nuclear annihilation, Ray Bradbury conjured a horrifying future where people watched too much TV, and were particularly compelled to watch police chases on their TVs.

Any Cormac McCarthy fans?

The Road is on its way -

right here, bro. i've read everything he's ever scribed, some twice. i tremble to think about the movie of The Road. absolutely one of the most profound, spooked, moving novels ever i have read.