Good "end of the world/society" films

GFX707 · 5 Apr 2007 at 21:51

I recently worked out that I love this type of film - films where the world as we know it ends, cities are abandoned etc. and the survivors have to struggle in the wasteland that remains....be it by nuclear war, zombies, or plague....just got through watching "Threads" which was an 80s BBC film made about a nuclear attack on Sheffield, pretty grim stuff but it really made you realise that could have happened. Then there's "When the Wind Blows" which was essentially a more personal version of the same thing, and of course the rest like "28 days later", and all the other zombie ones.

Anyone got any recommendations for "apocalypse" films?

GFX707 · 5 Apr 2007 at 22:03

Hmmm I have seen all of those apart from Red Dawn....I remember people used to talk about that one....I will check around for that one, might be hard to get. Thanks for that suggestion, keep them coming

GFX707 · 5 Apr 2007 at 23:07

Ehhhh, a short synopsis with each suggestion would be good

GFX707 · 5 Apr 2007 at 23:48

Nice link Putty, thanks

Post-apocalyptic doesn't really interest me - what I am looking for are films specifically about the apocalypse happening.

Googling is good but doesn't really beat personal opinions. Films that have knocked people's t**s off, you know what I mean....bleak, spectacular, whatever.