I need a list of good doom/shtf movies..

The movie was seriously lacking in the unrelenting depression of the novel. And subtly changes the motivation of the father.

Not a bad adaptation, just not everything that I wanted.

Thanks there,

OP, I will give you the most dramatic, horrible, piece of doom in the history of cinema. It is a bizarre BBC production, aired prime time some Friday around the 80s. It is apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic. It is based on a previous documentary (considered to terrible to be aired) that related the events unfolding during an hypothetic massive nuclear interchange between nations and focusing the action in a worker's england city. I assure you this is the most disturbing film I have ever watched, and I have watch many (I think) horror films: from zombies to serial killers, from gore to sadness. This is the one film you wont be able to forget during several days, and will go with you at bed for sure. Doom is the genre. Do not be afraid from what I said, it is good. You should be patient during the first twenty minutes, it is 30 years old and the pacing is slower, on the other hand the introduction is need to construct an emotional core around the protagonists. There are some minor footage taken from Dresden Bombardment and also an scene in a hospital where several injuries and blood can be seen. Apart from that, it is not naive, nobody dies on screen, and nevertheless, you experiment the sorriness and the panic to a nuclear attack and the nuclear winter coming next. Cheers!

I think the previous poster means "Threads" the post-apocalyptic nuclear war film. There's a scene of the survivors that are suffering terrible cancers that sticks in my mind. It is compelling.

For someone like me of another generation, well we grew up constantly concerned about the Soviet Union and an accidental or intentional launch. Things seem more stable now, but the sure is a lot of old bombs and material that some fool could use.

The US has leaking chemical weapons that have never been properly disposed of, despite the fact that it's been budgeted for. It's only a matter of time before an incident occurs with them.

Personal faves:

The Road (post nuclear war)(brutal)

Threads (pre and post nuclear war)(real brutal for 1982)

Another Earth (yes another Earth)

Melancholia (collision doom)

Last Night (somewhat funny at times, what people do before the sun explodes)

Night of the Comet (an oldie but goodie)

Love (man is stranded on the ISS and Houston is not responding, or anyone else for that matter)

When the Wind Blows (animated-but..it is the saddest post apoc. movie you will see, you will cry)

Children of Men (great)

Lol. The film is called:

"Thread"

^.^

watching all the "duck and cover" (for the US9 and the other british state propaganda on how to act given a nuclear attack was a very interesting experience (Im in my thirties).

you mean the Protect and Survive series? That has the most creeptastic music at the end of each segment. I can't be alone in a room with that on, hair stands up on the back of my neck., I get so creeped out.

If you look and listen close, some of these P&S videos were in the backround on the TV during Threads, when people were going about their business. I can see that happening.

Blackout

Documentary style extended lights out in England.

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They Live and the campy Night of the Comet.

"They Live" is required reading...

"the Road" also seems to be mostly instructions to me as well...I love the actor in that, so FINE...

"The Core" woke me up to doom...

Yep! That is what I meant^^ So authentic..

That sound; I can relate to what you feel, can even imagine what it would elicite in me if I were older (also, figure out growing as a boy in the 50s forced to watch duck and cover -in the US- neurosis are assured) but to me it is such an autentic sound I extracted it from a video and use it for incoming SMS (in my nerdy nerdness)

peace

MAD MAX POST APOCALYPTIC WORLD

Dr. Strangelove

Thanks for all the great suggestions, I didn't expect such in-depth descriptions... soo awesome..thank you all for taking the time!!

Anyone else want to share??

Tv: the event aired in 2010 i think

Deep Impact. Best comet doom ever.

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Not a film, but I thought I'd add Cyberstorm.. currently reading it, so far a very good book about what the aftermath of a massive Cyber Attack would look like.

THE ROAD

That's the real thing.

Has anybody mentioned 12 monkeys yet?

I loved it.

I was looking for a movie to watch tonight and it looks like "The Road" is the one..

Everyone is talking very doomy about it..



I hope I survive...

Miracle Mile

The Last Days is an unusual film about severe crippling agoraphobia. Parts of it were pretty good.


People acquire this, possibly for unknown reasons, as a result of a need for technology instead of real life, as a disease, etc.

I may be the only person who like Knowing. It's a 2009 film about a person who receives a coded message about many deaths from accidents. Alien beings of most likely extraterrestrial origin come but only to save some special children. I'm not in the benevolent space brothers camp as I know too much world history to know what happens when a technologically advances species meets those without it.


The absolutely lovely Aussie Rose Byrne is in the film, which for that reason alone I would watch it.

I would say that Children of Men was a stunning cinematic achievement, that it will be talked about for years. It is a very realistic view of a very dystopic Orwelian world in which immigrants flood a safer zone, live on the fringes, there's ongoing terrorsim, mass sterility (this is very possible from toxins and anyone can look at the drop off of viable sperm in postmodern men to see this happening).


It's difficult to explain why the original Red Dawn was so important. I think chiefly the idea of Communism was so intense at the time it was filmed, the fear of an invasion from a Latin American route was highly plausible, the idea of young people managing to avoid being picked up (highly unlikely today since they lack practical survival skills), etc.

That old version had heart. You felt them struggling.


There was an American tv miniseries in the early 80s called Amerika. It is all but impossible to find, but an extraordinary show in which America falls to communism and how people deal with coping with the loss of property as well as political prisoners. It was chilling when it came out.

He says, "Doom movie is depressing." AHHHAHHAHahahahhah..



It's a great movie. Realism is the truth. You probably like the stupid-ass boom-stick movie for vapid simpletons:



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