Stake Land (2010)
Jim Mickle's Stake Land uses vampires as backdrop for a melancholy survival drama. Sometimes the vampires are not the point.
Tag: Post-Apocalyptic
Post-apocalyptic stories skip the ending of the world to ask the better question: what do survivors build next? This tag collects reviews of post-apocalyptic film and fiction and the societies they imagine from rubble.
Book ReviewsThere Will Come Soft Rains
There are no human characters in Bradbury's story, and that is the point: an automated house goes through its daily routines after nuclear war has killed everyone. It teaches emotional power without people, horror through implication, and lyrical prose in…
2010sA Quiet Place (2018)
John Krasinski directs the post-apocalyptic horror about a family surviving in silence to avoid blind monsters that hunt by sound. A Quiet Place is John Krasinski's 2018 American post-apocalyptic horror film depicting a family surviving in rural silence to avoid…
1970sDawn of the Dead (1978)
Survivors of the zombie apocalypse take refuge in a suburban shopping mall, in George Romero's social satire sequel. Dario Argento financed the Italian co-production and supervised the European cut that runs approximately seven minutes shorter than Romero's preferred American version.
2000s28 Days Later (2002)
Danny Boyle directs the British zombie film about a man waking from a coma to find London depopulated by a rage virus. 28 Days Later is Danny Boyle's 2002 British post-apocalyptic horror film depicting a bicycle courier who wakes from…
2000sWALL-E (2008)
Andrew Stanton's 2008 Pixar masterpiece. Garbage robot finds love on dead Earth.
2010sOblivion (2013)
Oblivion is Joseph Kosinski's 2013 American science fiction film and one of the stronger entries in Tom Cruise's late science fiction cycle. The work is more thoughtful than Cruise's late action filmography typically allows.
HorrorWar of the Worlds (1953 & 2005)
The War of the Worlds material has been adapted as theatrical film twice across more than fifty years: The War of the Worlds (1953) starring Gene Barry and Ann Robinson, and War of the Worlds (2005) starring Tom Cruise and…
1960sThe Day of the Triffids (1962)
The Day of the Triffids is the British apocalypse film about ambulatory carnivorous plants invading a world that has been blinded by a meteor shower. Steve Sekely directed most of the film, with Freddie Francis uncredited for the lighthouse subplot.
2010sSnowpiercer (2013)
Bong directed and co-wrote with Kelly Masterson. The film made approximately eighty-six million dollars worldwide on a forty million dollar budget.
1970sWizards (1977) Review
Wizards is one of the substantial adult animated productions of the late 1970s and one of the most distinctive Ralph Bakshi feature productions. He had directed Fritz the Cat in 1972, Heavy Traffic in 1973, and Coonskin in 1975 before…
1990sTerminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) Review
James Cameron's most audacious decision in Terminator 2 isn't the liquid metal effects or the freeway chase or the nuclear dream sequence. It's taking his own iconic villain and making him the film's emotional center.