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Hey, I'm on a hunt to make a list of post-apocalyptic films. Ideally with a sci-fi theme but stuff like "Mad max"  will do. (IOW: not really looking for stuff like "The day after")

I have:
Night of the Comet
Planet of the Apes
The Omega Man
The Matrix

I just started it so I haven't had time to think. I don't want movies with apocalyptic titles that don't deliver (ie: Armageddon, yet the world IS saved) Anything with zombies, creatures, machines, or really post future is great. I"m sure there has to be more than that. NO Kevin costner movies please. ;-) thanks

"After the Fall of New York" -- A hilarious movie that "borrows" HEAVILY from "Escape from New York."  I'm submitting a reader review on it after I come up with a couple more lessons learned.

Maybe someone can help me with this:  After "The Day After" came out, the Brits put together something similar called "Threads" that was so realistic critics said it was comparable to "All's Quiet on the Western Front" while "Day After" was the "Hogan's Heroes" of nuclear war movies.  Then there was a Soviet version that was played on public television in the US.  It focused on a guy I think in Kiev who worked in a hospital on the day of the war and then holed himself up in - I think - a library or archive or something (memory is foggy here).   It was English-subtitled and VERY VERY good.  It was also surprisingly non-political for a Soviet-era film.
Does anyone have the name of this movie?  I'd really like to see it again.

How about STRYKER?  A post-apocalyptic movie that was so good it didn't even need a reason for the apocalypse.

Then there's RADIOACTIVE DREAMS.  I believe Andrew has a review on this page.

All the MAD MAX movies, but you already knew that.

Wizards .  That's a good one.  A bit draggy here and there, but hilarious in places.

Andrew's got a review  here.  (http://www.badmovies.org/movies/wizards/index.html)  In fact, you might want to go through the entire Bad Movie list.  There's probably a lot more there.
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 Fist of the North Star(Stay away from the live action versions)
 Warrior of the Wasteland
 2020 Texas Gladiators
 Warrior of the Lost World(Possibly the best movie ever made in the history of film starring your new god, Robert Ginty)

DAMNATION ALLEY, with George Peppard and giant cockroaches.
A BOY AND HIS DOG

haven't heard of that Soviet post-nuclear flick, but it sounds interesting.  There was a UK made-for-TV one called THE WAR GAME that is supposed to be pretty disturbing too.

Add this ones to your list:

1) Cyborg (Yep, the Jean Claude Van-Damme one)

2) Screamers (starring Peter Weller, not the one reviewed in this site)

3) Tank Girl

jmc wrote:
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> DAMNATION ALLEY, with George Peppard and giant cockroaches.

They're KILLER cockroaches, not giant--the scorpions are giant.  A real stinker that one--cool all terrain vehicles though.

A few more:

CHERRY 2000
SURVIVOR
WATERWORLD
DEF CON IV
THE POSTMAN
AMERICA 3000
HELL COMES TO FROGTOWN
DELICATESSEN (a personal favorite)
THE DAY THE WORLD ENDED
HARDWARE

There area  million of 'em.

Don't forget


The Last Man On Earth (Vincent Price...) this was later remade into The Omega Man

Some good ones, and some i've never seen before..thanks. I don't know why but only really cheesy 80's ones come to mind. Like "Solarbabies". There was also some other Australian one I remember about some young guy who realized he was the last guy on earth or something..well he did find a few others I think. I don't remember much about it as I saw it probably 10 years ago or something but I have a feeling I might have liked it...or it was one of those films with a letdown at the end or soemthing.

A boy and his dog starring don johnson..hmm..was he a boy in that movie? ;-)

I guess i could include "The time machine" since part of it involved a post apocalyptic world with mutant cannibals underground that fed off the dumb humans above like cattle. Funny tho, I'm suprised there haven't been more in recent years but I guess the theme with modern apocalyptic movies is to actually SAVE the world. sigh

Susan wrote:
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> There was also some other Australian one
> I remember about some young guy who realized he was the last
> guy on earth or something..well he did find a few others I
> think.

You're thinking of THE QUIET EARTH.  It's from NZ rather than Austrailia.  Great movie.

Another one that comes to mind is Wim Wender's apocalyptic road movie UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD.

>There was a UK made-for-TV one called THE WAR GAME that is supposed to >be pretty disturbing too.

 Check out Testament, a US made for TV movie. No flashy special effects, just a town exposed to radiation. Very realistic and haunting.

Truly an awful awful awful HORRIBLE movie.  At the end, the hero and his girl get away from a nuclear blast on a SAILBOAT.

At the end, the hero and his girl get away from a nuclear blast on a SAILBOAT.

In "Interceptor Force", the good guy escapes from a nuclear explosion by jumping in a well.

Also:

"American Cyborg"
"Robot Holocaust"
"Cold Harvest"

Freep wrote:  In "Interceptor Force", the good guy escapes from a nuclear explosion by jumping in a well.

*****  That's kind of like what happened in the big-budget "Broken Arrow," when Christian Slater and the cute-redhead-we-never-saw-in-anything-again escaped an underground nuclear explosion by jumping in an underground river and swimming 60 yards!

>>>> That's kind of like what happened in the big-budget "Broken Arrow," when Christian Slater and the cute-redhead-we-never-saw-in-anything-again escaped an underground nuclear explosion by jumping in an underground river and swimming 60 yards!
<<<<

I remember that.  Guess radiation means nothing to anyone. Then there's "Deep Impact" where the kid escapes a tsunami wav  travelling at unknown speeds by riding a motercycle through the woods..at a slower pace since riding on rocky terrain is hard. They just got splashed a little. There should be a book based on movies: "How I survived a near catastrophe"

I think TESTAMENT is probably one of the most depressing movies ever made....

>That's kind of like what happened in the big-budget "Broken Arrow," when >Christian Slater and the cute-redhead-we-never-saw-in-anything-again

 You mean Samantha Mathis, who also starred with Slater in Pump Up the Volume and had a major part in Super Mario Brothers as well as quite a few other movies?

>I think TESTAMENT is probably one of the most depressing movies ever
>made....

 Yes, but it's probably one of the most realistic movies to depict the aftermath of a limited nuclear war.

"The World, the Flesh, and the Devil" Only three survivors: a black man, a white woman, and a white man. The black man is Harry Belafonte, the white woman is Inger Stevens, and the white man is Mel Ferrer.
And "On the Beach," also from 1959, w/ Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, and Anthony Perkins, where Australia is the home of the last survivors on earth.
I'll try to think of some more. Enjoy!

I remember one weird PA-movie starring a young Michael Dudikoff  (I think) and some other guy who run around in 30s P.I.-outfits because pulp P.I. novels was all there was to read in their bunker.


Also I remember an animated british film about an old couple living through a nuclear exchange and after that and not getting whats happening.
One of the saddest films I've ever seen.


I don't remember the titles though, perhaps someone could help me out ?

Well if you go animated, you get about half of the Anime catalog, starting with Akira

A few more:

SURVIVOR

Would that be um..the one (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0157079) with Richard Moll?  Or um.. the other one (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0204661) with Richard Moll?

Neither IMDB link is very informative, although I've seen the first (later) movie where he plays Kyla. Although it has a very post-apoc feel when the get down to Earth, I wasn't really sure it qualified

Fearless Freep wrote:
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> Well if you go animated, you get about half of the Anime
> catalog, starting with Akira

Just finishing the Neon Genesis Evangelion Series, which is about the fulfillment of an apocalyptic prophecy. Of course, the world doesn't end until the end of the series.

Another animated movie that might fit is Titan A.E.

As for regular, live-action movies, I'm surprised nobody has mentioned The Blood of Heroes, featuring Rutger Hauer and Joan Chen playing a brutal sport in the wasteland of the future.

There was also Phoenix the Warrior, depicting a future in which hot-looking women rule the future, led by an old hag living in a factory that someone is trying to pass off as a bunker or something. Notable for having the worst performance by Persis Khambatta, and that's saying something.

Pokethulhu wrote:
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> I remember one weird PA-movie starring a young Michael
> Dudikoff  (I think) and some other guy who run around in 30s
> P.I.-outfits because pulp P.I. novels was all there was to
> read in their bunker.
>

Radioactive Dreams (http://www.badmovies.org/movies/radiodreams/index.html).  (Hey look!  George Kennedy!)

>
> Also I remember an animated british film about an old couple
> living through a nuclear exchange and after that and not
> getting whats happening.
> One of the saddest films I've ever seen.
>

That would be When the Wind Blows (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0090315).

Fearless Freep wrote:
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> SURVIVOR
>
> Would that be um..the
> one (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0157079) with Richard Moll?  Or um..
> the other one (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0204661)
> with Richard Moll?
>

This (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0204661) is the one I was thinking of (the second one above).  It had some stricking imagery, but generally sucked ass.

Another one I just heard about was CAPTIVE WOMEN (1952) (http://www.scifilm.org/talk/read.php?f=1&i=7763&t=7763) -- a cross between post-apocalypse and a cave man movie.

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned...

Don't be, there are a *lot* of post-apoc movies out there :)

AndyC wrote:
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> As for regular, live-action movies, I'm surprised nobody has
> mentioned The Blood of Heroes, featuring Rutger Hauer and
> Joan Chen playing a brutal sport in the wasteland of the
> future.

Some of us are trying to forget it.

Neon Genesis is one of my favorites.  The ending left more questions than answers, but I enjoyed it very much.  Another PA anime that comes to mind was "A Wind Named Amnesia."  The film wasn't to bad, but I really liked the premise.  Everyone in the world developed amnesia and lost all of their memories except for one person.  Worth looking at.

Cool Tester wrote:
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> Neon Genesis is one of my favorites.  The ending left more
> questions than answers, but I enjoyed it very much.

Just wondering if you're referring to the two-part series ending, where they do a psychological exploration of the characters, or the two follow-up movies that were made because the fans wanted some closure to the story.

I've just watched Death and Rebirth, and it's filled in a good deal of missing information. End of Evangelion, which I'm about to watch, looks like it has a lot more.

Fearless Freep wrote:
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> I'm surprised nobody has mentioned...
>
> Don't be, there are a *lot* of post-apoc movies out there :)

With this group, it's amazing if anything has gone unmentioned after 20 posts :)

With this group, it's amazing if anything has gone unmentioned after 20 posts :)

Well, in this case, *most* of the movies mentioned I've heard and many I've seen, and I could probably name about a half dozen more without  trying too hard.  One reason I've avoided adding to the list is because there are just *so many* that if you really put together a comprehensive list, it be overwhelming

Just for grins I'll throw out :

Omega Doom
Prototype X29A
Solar Force
Equalizer 2000
A.P.E.X

Don't forget She, with Sandal Bergman.

I was referring to the 2-part ending of the series itself.  I haven't seen End of Evangelion or Death and Rebirth.  I've heard that they answer a lot of questions that weren't answered in the series, yet they also raise a lot more.  I'll have to get these.

Freep's "A wind named..." thread reminded me of:

SLIPSTREAM (1989) -- a truly Z-grade one starring Mark Hammill and Bill Paxton.

Hey, this one goes with Susan's "Bill Paxton" thread too--sorry Sue, he isn't a jerk, killer, psycho, or any of the above in this one.  He actually plays a good guy.

>>He actually plays a good guy.<<

damn! Well he deviates from his usual roles from time to time i guess. ;-)

Cool Tester wrote:
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> I was referring to the 2-part ending of the series itself.  I
> haven't seen End of Evangelion or Death and Rebirth.  I've
> heard that they answer a lot of questions that weren't
> answered in the series, yet they also raise a lot more.  I'll
> have to get these.

Having finally seen them both, they do just that. You figure out most of what was going on throughout the series, then you get an ending that leaves you saying "what the hell is going on?"

As I said earlier, here are some more post-apocalpyse films. I just hope they don't duplicate what has already been mentioned. Enjoy!
"Things to Come" (1936)
and its remake "The Shape of Things to Come" (1978)
"Five" (1951)
"Captive Women" (1952)
"World without End" (1955)
"The Day the World Ended" (1955)
"Teenage Caveman" (1959) w/ Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) as the title character.
"The Last Woman on Earth" (1961)
"Beneath the Planet of the Apes" (1970)
and "Battle for the Planet of the Apes" (1973)

Hope nobody minds me digging up this one.....

Get yourself a copy of Dead Men Walking with Jeffrey Combs in which a deadly disease reduces the peoples live expectancy to 3 years, unless you can afford a cure.

MetalStorm: The Destruction of Jared Synn

It's pretty post-apoc, with mutants and dune buggies. It's a b***h to find though.