100 MAD MAX/FALLOUT-STYLE POST-APOCALYPTIC MOVIES

[Rev. Powell]

In honor of FURIOSA, I thought I'd start yet another another "100" list.

I specified "Mad Max"-style specifically to try to exclude the separate "zombie apocalypse" genre. I'm pretty sure people won't read this post and will include zombie apocalypse movies, though, and I won't try to police them. But hopefully we can stick to non-zombie post-nuke apocalypses! I want to see if we can come up with 100 of them. And I especially value recommendations for pre-ROAD WARRIOR examples of the genre.

Anyway, I'll start with the movie that inspired me to start this thread:

1. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)

[LilCerberus]

It gives me a headache just thinking about this topic.....

http://www.badmovies.org/movies/2019after/
http://www.badmovies.org/movies/bloodheroes/
http://www.badmovies.org/movies/boyanddog/
http://www.badmovies.org/movies/cherry2k/
http://www.badmovies.org/movies/fistnorthstar/
http://www.badmovies.org/movies/gunhed/
http://www.badmovies.org/movies/hellfrog/
http://www.badmovies.org/movies/hybrid/
http://www.badmovies.org/movies/planetapes/
http://www.badmovies.org/movies/radiodreams/
http://www.badmovies.org/movies/ratsnight/
http://www.badmovies.org/movies/returnfrogtown/
http://www.badmovies.org/movies/sixstringsam/
http://www.badmovies.org/movies/solarbabies/
http://www.badmovies.org/movies/teencavefu/
http://www.badmovies.org/movies/warriorlost/
http://www.badmovies.org/movies/zardoz/

[Rev. Powell]

Oh man, thanks for braving the headache and compiling that list!

1. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)
2. 2019: AFTER THE FALL OF NEW YORK (1983)
3. THE BLOOD OF HEROES (1989)
4. A Boy and His Dog (1974) - (this is the first movie I think of when I think of the MAD MAX milieu before MAD MAX. A lot more sci-fi, but the general desert junkyard vibe is the same.)
5. CHERRY 2000 (1986)
6. FIST OF THE NORTH STAR (1986)
7. Gunhed (1989)
8. HELL COMES TO FROGTOWN (1987)
9. Hybrid (1997)
10. PLANET OF THE APES (1986)
11. RADIOACTIVE DREAMS (1984)
12. RATS: NIGHT OF TERROR (1983)
13. RETURN TO FROGTOWN (1992)
14. SIX-STRING SAMURAI (1998)
15. SOLARBABIES (1986)
16. TEENAGE CAVEMAN (2002 remake)
17. WARRIOR OF THE LOST WORLD (1983)
18. Zardoz (1973)

I might as well add the original MAD MAX to save people the trouble.

19. MAD MAX (1979)

[LilCerberus]

20) Turbo Kid (2015)
21) Warriors of the Wasteland (1983)
22) Warriors of the Apocalypse (1984)
23) Endgame - Bronx lotta finale (1983)
24) Stryker (1983)
25) Wheels of Fire (1985)

[LilCerberus]

Man, I feel like my brain is trying to bust outa my ears & make a break for it!

26. The Exterminators of the Year 3000 (1983)
27. Battletruck (1982)
28. Deathsport (1978) (I came across Warlords (1988) & Dune Warriors (1991) while looking for this one, but haven't seen them.)

[LilCerberus]

Oy..... In the notion of a futuristic free-for-all, the subgenre gets way more convoluted!!!

29. Steel Dawn (1987)
30. Robot Holocaust (1987)
31. 2020 Texas Gladiators (1983)
32. Phoenix the Warrior (1988)
33. Land of Doom (1986)
34. Knights (1993)

The last three are about a female protagonist..... Could be, Furiosa was a wee bit behind the times.....

[M.10rda]

Lil' Cerberus runs the table! 

[Cult_Moody_Movies]

35. Fist of the North Star (1995) - The live action version.

[Cult_Moody_Movies]

36. America 3000 (1986)

[Cult_Moody_Movies]

37. Vampire Hunter D (1985) -  Set in the year 12,090 AD, in a post-nuclear holocaust world. Vampires happened to be in it.

[Trevor]

38. SURVIVAL ZONE (1983) from South Africa 😳

[Alex]

39. Doomsday.

[RCMerchant]

40. MAD MAX 2: the ROAD WARRIOR (1981)
I figured this would be at least in the first 10!

[RCMerchant]

41. MAD MAX: BEYOND THUNDERDOME (1985)

[M.10rda]

42.) CRAZY THUNDER ROAD (1984)

I'm also gonna' say

43.) AKIRA (1989)
by the end, anyway.