Post Apocalyptic (9 titles)
A selection of classic post apocalyptic movies and TV.
75% from 4 members
Mad Max
A brilliant bleak movie road movie set against a backdrop of a violent lawless society in decay.
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Mad Max
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel, Steven Bisley
Director: George Miller
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Rebel bikers combat the police in a bleak post-nuclear future where the highways are bloody battlegrounds. When a gang of motorcyclists brutally murder a policeman's family he becomes Mad Max, avenger of the highways. Sequel: "The Road Warrior."
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A Boy And His Dog
Excellent adaptation of Harlan Ellison's short story about a boy and his psychic dog surviving in a world of roaming gangs of adolescents.
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A Boy And His Dog
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: Don Johnson, Susanne Benton, Jason Robards
Director: L.Q. Jones
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Vic (Don Johnson), survivor of atomic holocaust, wanders hungrily across the bleak desert landscape in search of cans of food buried deep in radioactive ash. His telepathic dog, Blood (Tim McIntire) depends on Vic for food, but Vic needs Blood to find him something much more scarce: female ..read more »
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Dawn Of The Dead
If Night of the Living Dead is the apocalypse then this is the aftermath. A true classic of more than one genre, also a defining moment in zombie cinema.
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Dawn Of The Dead
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: David Emge, Ken Foree, Scott Reiniger
Director: George A. Romero
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Picking up where NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD left off, and still offering no explanation of why the dead are walking the earth, DAWN plunges headlong into one of the most violent and original horror films ever made. After securing an apartment building overcome with flesh-eating zombies, two ..read more »
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Survivors - Series 1
A flu like disease rips through Britain and kills off almost all the population. Those left have to build society back from scratch.
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Survivors - Series 1
(4 discs)
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: Peter Bowles, Lucy Flemming, Carolyn Seymour
Director: Pennant Roberts, Gerald Blake, Terence William
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A conical flask smashes in a laboratory and a deadly virus escapes into the atmosphere. A number of survivors, seemingly immune to the disease, search each other out.
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The Day Of The Triffids
Another classic BBC TV series. A meteor storm leaves most of the country blinded, which means killer plant like alien triffids have free reign. The core of the story though is one of survival against very human adversaries in a world that has broken down.
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The Day Of The Triffids
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: John Duttine, Emma Relph, Maurice Colbourne
Director: Ken Hannam
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A meteor collides with Earth, causing havoc to mankind as the vast majority of the population is left blind and huge carnivorous plants are spawned which prey on humans... Based on the novel by John Wyndham.
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28 Days Later
Violent and intense. The rage virus turns any one who becomes infected into a dangerous killer, who like Romero's zombies will kill anyone at site. But unlike Romero's zombies they are fast and give their victims no time to think. A story of survival against all odds.
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28 Days Later
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Cillian Murphy, Megan Burns, Noah Huntley
Director: Danny Boyle
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TRAINSPOTTING director Danny Boyle returns to edgy form and reinvents the science-fiction/horror genre with this apocalyptic tale of viral infection and Darwinian survival. A fatal virus is unleashed on the British public following the liberation of infected chimps from a research laboratory by ..read more »
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The Omega Man
Adaption of Richard Matheson's excellent book. A man surviving in a world filled with vampire mutants. Heston's unsympathetic character actually helps the story along, driving towards the conclusion where he finally learns to question the nature of what is monstrous.
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The Omega Man
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Charlton Heston, Anthony Zerbe, Rosalind Cash
Director: Boris Sagal
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In the aftermath of a bacteriological war, the future of mankind hangs in the balance. Only a chosen few have survived the mutating effects of germ warfare unharmed. A small enclave of healthy, stalwart resistors has formed a camp where, for the moment, they live peacefully. The other human ..read more »
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Threads
A bleak movie about the aftermath of a nuclear attack.
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Threads
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Karen Meagher, Reece Dinsdale, David Brierly
Director: Mick Jackson
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Critically acclaimed but chilling story of a nuclear strike on Britain. Through the eyes of two Sheffield families we witness the immediate after-effects of the attack...the shock, grief, radiation sickness, hypothermia and starvation...
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Doomsday - BLU-RAY Version
A kind of mad max on acid and much better than I anticipated. More schlock than the average post apocalyptic film, with an implausible plot, but enjoyable despite that.
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Doomsday - BLU-RAY Version
(2008)
Starring: Sean Pertwee, Adrian Lester, Bob Hoskins
Director: Neil Marshall
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Writer/director Neil Marshall earned the respect of horror devotees with his first two features, DOG SOLDIERS and THE DESCENT, refreshing and scary twists on the werewolf and expedition-gone-wrong genres. Where those works exemplified a respect for pure horror, devoid of the tension-spoiling comedy ..read more »
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