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

When I was a kid back in the 70s I saw this trippy British film called "No Blade of Grass." This scientist dude and his family along with others bug out of London due to a pandemic and try to head to his brother's farm in Scotland. Along the way there is all sorts of crazy stuff happening including gang rape of some of the chicks in the entourage by a motorcycle gang. The actress who plays Pauline Fowler on Eastenders, Wendy Richard, was in this and she had black hair and her character was a real floozy, so much so that one of the men tells her that she has "a survival kit between her legs!" Along the way a lady gives birth and they leave her, the baby and her husband behind at some shack as they would slow them down. When they get to the farm they end up in a shootout with the brother who didn't want to let the non-family members of the party in. Wish I could see this again as an adult, it sure freaked me out as a little kid!

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Hitchcock's The Birds.

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Yes, the second version (1978) of The Invasion of the Body Snatchers was actually the best version.

Sleep deprivation was part of the equation, for that's when the duplication happened. Imagine being afraid to sleep and increasing paranoia. Great film.

I really enjoyed the more recent Day of the Triffids made by the BBC. I think they head to the Isle of Wight to escape them.

Thanks for the great suggestions!

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whoa....I'd like to find that one

On the Beach (1959)
A great post-nuclear film that suffers from a terrible soundtrack. The crew of a US submarine head to Australia. Because of the air currents, it's the last place on Earth to survive the nuclear attack. It's slow death, but they make a life for a little while.

The Handmaid's Tale (1990)

An ecological disaster and civil war destroys the USA. very few women are still fertile. When the wealthy class cannot have a child, then a woman is forced to serve as a handmaid and bear the couple a new child.

Other women are forced into prostitution to the wealthy despite it being a massive theocracy.



Carriers (2009)

A pandemic becomes widespread, and two young couples take off on an adventure, not realizing the seriousness of a collapse.



Blade Runner (1982)
Extraordinary visionary film from Ridley Scott before he was famous. A dystopian future in which widespread pollution has destroyed much of the world. Space travel has become common, and most of those healthy enough have left to colonize other worlds. Because of the difficulties of life in space, special androids with enhanced strength, high intellect, and dexterity, are used to perform dangerous tasks and serves as slaves.

Some of the replicants escape and return to Earth in search of answers.


Often considered one of the top 20 science fiction films of all time.

The Stand miniseries

Stephen King novels or short stories are hit-or-miss when presented on tv or film. They did a fair job of this massive novel.

A pandemic kills everyone and the Walking Dude, perhaps the Antichrist, is gathering people while another person Mother Abigail are gathering folks to her side.

Great performance by Gary Sinise and strangely enough by Molly Ringwald.



You should read the book. The year it came out, we were all reading it, and when someone sneezed, we would laugh nervously.

Here's another one.

Like The Road it's also quite depressing but still worth watching

Testament

Take Shelter

The Impossible

The Book of Enoch

Day After Tomorrow

Testament (1983)

A small town deals with a worldwide nuclear attack. You see them slowly dying, some less immune to the radiation than others, often the children dying.

There's an extremely poignant scene of a very young Kevin Cosner looking for something to bury his infant son in. It makes me shudder to remember it.

Some young children make some remarkably mature performances. An adolescent realizes she'll never marry or meet someone and fall in love. A young teen boy spends a lot of his time running errands and trying to help his family and his elderly neighbors.

An excellent drama all around.

Harrison Bergeron (1995)

An intellectual film based upon the Vonnegutt 1961 short story. In this dystopian world, those who excel are forced to handicap themselves in order to create the facade of equality. One rebels and is labeled a terrorist. Hard to say enough good things about it. Few people saw it.

Event Horizion Good movie

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I thought it was really good and really worth the watch

A Scanner Darkly (2006)

A film made and then frame by frame painstakingly animated. Stunning achievement. Predicts a dystopian Orwellian police state of constant surveillance.



1984 (1984)
Based upon the George Orwell novel, a police state with complete surveillance, thought control, brutalizes the protagonist and the woman he's having an affair with.



War of the Worlds (2005)

An alien invasion results in massive citizen migration to safe zones, but few manage to make it. The story mostly follows one family's struggle especially in light of a protagonist of few survival skills and surly teenagers who absolutely will not listen. Highly realistic instead of the benevolent space brothers films.


Unfortunately almost everyone knows how it ends which spoils this modern retelling.

Take a look at this list
Thread: MOVIES FOR GLPers. A SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY (Page 48)

Monsters (2010)

A space probe is contaminated as it returns to Earth. The organisms on it begin multiplying in stages in Latin America and Mexico. A wall is built to control the spread of them, but the phenomena is new and the military is not in control of the situation.

We follow a freelance photographer in Mexico who's been tasked to both document the alien life forms as well as to get the daughter of his boss back to the USA.

This is a very fine independent film and demonstrates how great a film can be without huge budgets.

A Boy and His Dog (1975)


Very weird cult scifi film starring Don Johnson way before he was famous. A young man and his telepathic dog travel the post-apocalyptic world and try to simply survive from day-to-day. You have to see this one to appreciate it.

idiocracy.although every movie is a reflection of society,therefore a doom movie.

In a post-apocalyptic world.......where the russians nuked us...the capital was moved to Vegas and Elvis was declared King.....

The King is now dead....and guitar playing, sword slinging warriors are coming from all over to battle to be the new King.

Very Campy....but enjoyable and has a cult following.

These are some good ones.

Really fun to watch
Lunopolis
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The signal
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Pontypool
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The Quiet Earth

On the Beach
Threads
Last day on Earth
Melancholia ( give that a miss or you might wanna hope it was the last day on earth lol )
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This is the End
World's End

both 2013.

I prefer comedies.

Boy and his Dog looks good - heard of the title for years, thx!

Watching The Core right now....looks good!! Pigeons everywhere!!!!

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The divide.

warning,
this movie is very sick.

for a new day and maybe more suggestions??

Thanks! WE got a great list here.

Juan in a Million


I don't know if this is good or not, but it's on my list on highly anticipated films. The concept is great. Did he dimensionally shift out of reality?

The Langoliers


This is a Stephen King novella made into a tv movie. I really enjoyed reading it. It made for a decent film.

The Brotherhood of the Bell (1970)


A good old conspiracy film which almost no one has seen, the Brotherhood of the Bell is about the secret cabal that runs the world aka fill-in-the-blank acroymns like the the Council for Foreign Relations, Skull & Bones, Bohemian Grove, etc

It's hard to believe the elite allowed it to be made into a film considering it was created in 1970.

Reign of Fire


The dragons are awakened and lay waste to whole cities. Only a few survive and call themselves firefighters and attempt to oppose them. Christian Bale stars. A pretty good if very silly film.

Most of the smaller known films have been named.

There's an independent film made in the last ten years. It's about a city that's been hit by nuclear fallout. A guy seals his house up to keep the radioactive dust out, then he has to deal with some good neighbors or even family members trapped outside and the moral quandary of what to do. It was really great but I can't recall the name. Maybe someone else will remember it?

I remember scenes where the folks outside are contaminated with dust, and maybe he let's them inside, but segregates them into a different comparmentalized section of the house.