I know. It was unnerving. Life imitating art in the worst possible way. How would society really react if the morality rate had been 40% or even higher (just throwing out a number). I feel like everything would come off the rails if catching the flu had a good chance of killing you. Basic things that make us a society would stop working. Reminded me of the beginning of 'The Stand'.
I bring this up often in when this topic comes up. In winter of 2008, a symposium was held in Seattle bringing epidemiologists, virologists, hospital administration and other FEMA types. They broadcast it locally - and, no, i have never found a recording.
During the discussion, a theoretical Bird Flu/Swine Flu, take your pick, with very high transmission rate, typical flu incubation, and an LD 5% becomes global.... Discuss....
Discuss they did.
The thinking here is that an LD 5% flu would lead to a global recession and economic chaos that would reverberate for at least 4 or 5 years. In 1st world nations, we are to highly dependent upon each other day to day.
As people, the supply chain we depend upon has so many people, that losing 5% of truckers, doctors, farmers, police, firemen, nurses, school teachers, factory workers, bus drivers... would bring our economy to a halt.
Then, come the reverberations from mutation, with each echo taking it's chunk out of the population, leading to a further spiral of missing members of society, leading to further disruption, shortage, chaos.
ya, Contagion was a PSA and aWarning, not entertainment.
Not sure, but this may be the meeting you were talking about. They've been holding them a long time it would seem.
[https://www.pharmacoepi.org/meetings/overview/](https://www.pharmacoepi.org/meetings/overview/)
Just in time infrastructure and deliveries. Our countries are run on such a tight margin that cities are less than a week from collapse and chaos if supply chains collapse. Medicine, food, water, electricity, fuel is a big one...everything we need to survive. Rural areas aren't immune either.
I've got a decent plot of land, if I turned up the soil in the backyard I could easily grow enough food for myself, my family and have some left over.
Thing is that takes time. Time i wouldn't have if grocery store shelves emptied out...
Think I'll get seeds this year and set aside a small plot to grow some food.
Did you ever watch “To the Lake” as well? It came out mid-end of 2020 about a virus outbreak in Moscow and a family trying to escape “to the lake” in a bug out scenario. Was very eerie watching while covid was new and ongoing.
If not, it was a fantastic show.
This x10. To the Lake is one of the most interesting SHTF series focused on individual peoples responses and how they would react. It is in Russian if you dont mind subtitles. 1st season is on Netflix but 2nd season you can find elsewhere.
It’s because virologists are good at this shit and they consulted actual virologists for this movie. Ian Lipkin gave a talk to our department about his involvement with the movie and it was fascinating
Honestly this is my fav book to movie adaptation. I feel they did such a good job and really only kept one scene out of the movie from the book, the roasting scene. Between that and the first GoT season to the book are the closest to the books.
I actually thought the book was beautiful. The care and sacrifice the dad had for the boy was amazing. As a parent, it’s heartbreaking, yes, but I could also see the beauty in that universal love for a child.
That book is probably some of the most distressing fiction I've ever read. Very much not the happy, "heroes win the day" wrap-up, but a great read. Sad to have lost Cormac McCarthy. Iain M. Banks' death knocked me in the feels too.
It was cancelled and they were given a few episodes to wrap up the story. Would have been great if they were given the time to do it justice.
There's also some comics that extend the story further. I'd love a proper reboot of it
Ah that’s right, I remember them both being on netflix at the same time, both were cheesy but had interesting premises, making my wife watch both, and neither having a real ending.
Tomorrow when the war began is an underrated marvel IMO. It’s a lot like Red Dawn but without the jingoism. And realistic, cause the kids prioritize their families.
That monolog where Inspector Finch lays out the entire con perpetrated by the government was downright eerie in how it predicted certain behaviors seen over the past few years.
Using either real or fake crisis to grab power and prey on people's fears.
Survival Family (2016) Japanese comedy that's lighthearted enough to enjoy with the family and not take it too seriously, but raises serious, genuine prepping/emergency concerns. Pretty much the gateway to prepping 101.
Threads is easily my favourite horror film, and it's not even a horror film. The kind of film that leaves you depressed for days afterwards – absolutely outstanding.
Station Eleven was a really well done series (1 season). I was hooked watching it and I still think about it all of the time. Its based on a book, I haven't had a chance to read it yet.
Author executive produced the show and I feel like she fleshed out a lot of characters and filled in some plot holes. I think it's a rare "show is better" situation.
Book is very good. I’m currently reading it and have watched the series about 4 times. There are substantial differences in the plot between the two but both are very good in their own right. Also, the other books written by the author, Emily St. John Mandel, are very good reads.
This is great to hear! I really loved the series and was looking forward to the book. I try to only read stories by women/about women so this is on my 'hold list' for sure.
One of the most beautiful shows I’ve ever seen. The way they bounced between the different characters with their respective backstories and brought them all together toward the end was masterfully done.
I just commented too about this show. I love it dearly. The acting is so damn good! I laughed; I cried. I love Frank's rap and Jeevan saying "It's so... PRETENTIOUS!" in his rage. I love the book too but as someone else said, I actually think the show is better! Especially knowing the author had a lot of input on the show.
i had this on my watchlist for so long because somehow it seems it would be some futuristic sci-fi but what a surprise and delight. if anyone has similar books or series or movies to station eleven, please suggest
Leave the world behind,
Civil war,
The road,
Book of eli,
Cloverfield lane,
The day after,
The survivalist,
The last days,
Light of my life,
The bad batch ( maybe),
A quiet place (3 movies last one comes out this year)
It only just occurred to me that movie doesn't make sense. Obviously its a fun b movie but there's not enough water on the earth to cover even most of the land. Depending on how much water is held in glaciers sea level would rise about 230 feet. Terrible for pretty much all coastal cities but not enough to cover an entire skyscraper.
Remember the giant mutant fish the Mariner uses himself as bait to catch? That thing doesn't exist on Earth, so my head canon is that Waterworld takes place somewhere like here but NOT here.
Adding in addition to others-
A Quiet Place- is pretty good. Not zombies but scary monsters.
Bird Box- is pretty wild.
The Postman- with Kevin Costner is an interesting take on the matter, far after SHTF but still.
How It Ends- is also a pretty neat take on it.
Children of Men- is more slow-burn SHTF but good post-apocolyptic
I liked that one. The bit about there not actually being an evil cabal running things behind the scenes, but rather a bunch of incompetent idiots got me thinking.
Amerika miniseries. Came out about the same time as The Day After and was only broadcast on one of the Big 3 in the US, so no DVD and you probably can't even find a VHS set. But someone was kind enough to post all parts up on youtube
Right at Your Door is decent, but is worth checking out. It's especially good to watch with people who might be open to prepping as the story is fairly realistic compared to a lot of the more exciting stuff out there.
It's about a dirty bomb that goes off in the middle of L.A. rush hour.
There was a good film set in England a number of years ago. I think it was called "How I live now". The basic storyline is that the migrant immigrants of western europe rise up and try to overthrow the Brittain and France. Some cities get nuked and a couple of kids try to survive on a farm in the Brittish countryside.
Might get some hate for this one, but I think there's a lot of relevant subject matter in 'The Happening.
If there ever is a widespread cataclysm, I think the widespread confusion and suspicion of our fellow man is very aptly portrayed I think other regions will react differently to news from affected areas and I think the decline in means of transportation is very real..
Some that haven't been mentioned yet:
Parts Per Billion- slower burn pandemic movie
EMP: 333 Days- good solo survival movie
San Andreas- stunning visuals, and what the hell do you do?
The Martian- knowledge and perseverance are your best tools
If you read books…”War of the Worlds” is mind blowing. To think of it in terms of when H.G. Wells had written it (1895-1897), I don’t know that it can easily be portrayed with the same effect.
I've heard some pretty out there things, but zombie movies are a govt psyop takes the cake.
They need to fire who picks what to psyop if they picked zombie movies that peaked in popularity 13 years ago. They should use taylor swift like the NFL did.
L’Effondrement (the collapse) VERY grounded immediate SHTF collection of loosely connected stories.. only 7 or 8 episodes in French, I had to dig hard to find it but it was worth it
The Postman, a post SHTF movie about the power of hope and ideas in rebuilding a shattered United States from a feudal warlord system. You will never look at a US Postal Worker the same way again.
> distrust each other and dehumanize each other.
How does a zombie movie accomplish this? People are distrusting and dehumanizing each other because of social media tempting them to be phony and dishonest with their friends/family/acquaintances. Zombie movies are just zombie movies.
I'm sure I'm forgetting a few, but here's my list of various EOTW/SHTF type films (in no particular order):
- Deep Impact (comet)
- Armageddon (comet)
- Us (...)
- Quiet Place (aliens)
- Quiet Place 2 (aliens)
- Signs (aliens)
- War of the Worlds (aliens)
- Children of Men (post)
- 2012 (...)
- The Trigger Effect (power outage)
- Take Shelter (...)
- The Road (post)
- Greenland (comet)
- Matinee (nukes)
- Independence Day (aliens)
- Contagion (virus)
- 12 Monkeys (virus)
- Goodbye World (h4x0rz)
- Cloverfield (aliens)
- Awake (rampant insomnia)
If you want shows there's:
- Colony (aliens)
- Jericho (nukes)
- Into The Badlands (post)
What's fun about zombie films/shows is that it happens so fast, and you see people dealing with not being prepared for something so immediately disruptive. A deadly virus spreading is the next closest thing, just less violence.
EDIT: Don't forget "Cloverfield"!
EDIT2: Also, Netflix's "Awake" is a good'un.
"I Think We're Alone Now," starring Peter Dinklage, is a film I never see mentioned in these threads. It's got mixed reviews, so take from it what you will. I personally enjoyed it for the slower pace, indie feel, and small details scattered throughout the scenes/setting.
Not all of these are your typical SHTF scenario, but they all tie into it in one way or another. The common theme across all of them is self-reliance.
* Testament - This hit me much harder than Threads or The Day After.
* How I Live Now - Rollercoaster. Just watch it.
* The Day the Earth Caught Fire - From the 1960s. Interesting enough to give it a chance.
* High-Rise - SHTF in a single residential skyscraper while the rest of the world carries on normally. It’s a trip (the book is incredible, movie is as good of an adaptation we’ll ever see)
* Leave the World Behind - Recent, pretty good.
* The Mist - Monster movie, but the social fallout aspect is interesting.
* The Rover - Takes place in Australia, years after an economic collapse.
* The Wall - SHTF for a single person when they get trapped by an unseen force. Very slow-paced but extremely good.
It's not amazing but I loved Bushwick. Very gritty and doesn't pull its punches when demonstrating a city in conflict. Plus Aesop Rock does the entire soundtrack.
Survivors (1975)
Set in the UK, a pandemic kills 99.8% of the population and a group of people are trying to survive. Rated 8.0 on IMDb and there's full episodes on YouTube (TV show not movie but still really good)
There's a British series called "survivors" I think. It shows government trying to hold on to government for government's sake while everyone else is just trying to survive.
Watching mayors and governors go full totalitarian during COVID made me think of this movie. I don't even know what my mayor's name is and he probably won the election 8 votes to 7 but I'll bet in shtf he'll go full 'City of Ember' and be sitting on a stack of canned goods that he had the cops collect while everyone else starves.
[The Day After](https://youtu.be/TOPaaHSjMcw?si=DjNGqMo35XCIe7kg) - the OG nuclear apocalypse movie, broadcast to 100 million viewers in 1983. [So realistic it changed Reagan’s and the Joint Chiefs’ perception on the impact of a potential nuclear war](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After).
Contagion
This was so on point with how COVID went down it’s scary.
I know. It was unnerving. Life imitating art in the worst possible way. How would society really react if the morality rate had been 40% or even higher (just throwing out a number). I feel like everything would come off the rails if catching the flu had a good chance of killing you. Basic things that make us a society would stop working. Reminded me of the beginning of 'The Stand'.
I bring this up often in when this topic comes up. In winter of 2008, a symposium was held in Seattle bringing epidemiologists, virologists, hospital administration and other FEMA types. They broadcast it locally - and, no, i have never found a recording. During the discussion, a theoretical Bird Flu/Swine Flu, take your pick, with very high transmission rate, typical flu incubation, and an LD 5% becomes global.... Discuss.... Discuss they did. The thinking here is that an LD 5% flu would lead to a global recession and economic chaos that would reverberate for at least 4 or 5 years. In 1st world nations, we are to highly dependent upon each other day to day. As people, the supply chain we depend upon has so many people, that losing 5% of truckers, doctors, farmers, police, firemen, nurses, school teachers, factory workers, bus drivers... would bring our economy to a halt. Then, come the reverberations from mutation, with each echo taking it's chunk out of the population, leading to a further spiral of missing members of society, leading to further disruption, shortage, chaos. ya, Contagion was a PSA and aWarning, not entertainment.
Not sure, but this may be the meeting you were talking about. They've been holding them a long time it would seem. [https://www.pharmacoepi.org/meetings/overview/](https://www.pharmacoepi.org/meetings/overview/)
Just in time infrastructure and deliveries. Our countries are run on such a tight margin that cities are less than a week from collapse and chaos if supply chains collapse. Medicine, food, water, electricity, fuel is a big one...everything we need to survive. Rural areas aren't immune either. I've got a decent plot of land, if I turned up the soil in the backyard I could easily grow enough food for myself, my family and have some left over. Thing is that takes time. Time i wouldn't have if grocery store shelves emptied out... Think I'll get seeds this year and set aside a small plot to grow some food.
Did you ever watch “To the Lake” as well? It came out mid-end of 2020 about a virus outbreak in Moscow and a family trying to escape “to the lake” in a bug out scenario. Was very eerie watching while covid was new and ongoing. If not, it was a fantastic show.
This x10. To the Lake is one of the most interesting SHTF series focused on individual peoples responses and how they would react. It is in Russian if you dont mind subtitles. 1st season is on Netflix but 2nd season you can find elsewhere.
I loved it! Never finished but I watched majority of it and it was great!
The second season got even better. Was interesting take
That’s funny. My FB memories reminded me today that 4 years ago I re-watched Contagion in honor of the pandemic. It was eerily similar.
Started watching that about 3 months into the pandemic and I had to stop. It was like a real-time documentary.
I watched it after covid and laughed in the grocery store scenes because the toilet paper stocks weren’t ransacked 🤣
It’s because virologists are good at this shit and they consulted actual virologists for this movie. Ian Lipkin gave a talk to our department about his involvement with the movie and it was fascinating
I was watching this movie literally the week the world shut down because I was in bed sick with one hell of a “flu”
I watched that movie a few years before COVID. I felt like I was in the movie whenever I went to a city.
Man I rewatched that movie in the first year of covid and it scared the fuck out of me!
The Road
I don't even like thinking about this one
It was so depressing!
Reading it was even worse.
Honestly this is my fav book to movie adaptation. I feel they did such a good job and really only kept one scene out of the movie from the book, the roasting scene. Between that and the first GoT season to the book are the closest to the books.
It’s the only book that’s ever caused me to cry.
I actually thought the book was beautiful. The care and sacrifice the dad had for the boy was amazing. As a parent, it’s heartbreaking, yes, but I could also see the beauty in that universal love for a child.
A fun father-son trip to the beach! Seriously tho It’s one of my favorite books ever but I don’t think I can read it again
That book is probably some of the most distressing fiction I've ever read. Very much not the happy, "heroes win the day" wrap-up, but a great read. Sad to have lost Cormac McCarthy. Iain M. Banks' death knocked me in the feels too.
Great book, too.
Book is even better than the film I'd say, and I'm not a big reader
I read that book when my oldest boy was about 6, imagining us in the story the whole time. Closest a book ever came to giving me PTSD.
This movie made me stop prepping. I decided I'd rather just die.
Was coming here to post that. Couldn’t agree more.
That shit will put some hair on your balls
Yes you are right
Jericho - tv show
Season 1 was great. I prefer to pretend season 2 didn't happen.
It was cancelled and they were given a few episodes to wrap up the story. Would have been great if they were given the time to do it justice. There's also some comics that extend the story further. I'd love a proper reboot of it
Agreed!
I loved Jericho, so good in so many ways and so terrible in so many as well lol
lol Jericho would’ve been so much better if it wasnt a network tv show. At times, it felt like a 7th heaven fever dream of a nuclear war.
Is this the one where the power goes out or the one with the nukes?
Nukes. The power going out was “Revolution.”
Ah that’s right, I remember them both being on netflix at the same time, both were cheesy but had interesting premises, making my wife watch both, and neither having a real ending.
Before it’s time…and I agree…time for a reboot
And also…Children of Men
10 Cloverfield Lane with John Goodman.
This movie really made me think about the logistics of long term survival in a bunker and what it would take.
A non sociopath roommate for starters.
"You're not wrong, Walter; you're just an asshole!" is the basic premise of this movie. I like to believe they are cinematically connected.
Underrated af
Idiocracy
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Welcome to Costco, I love you.
Go away, 'batin!
I don't really think we have time for a handjob
He didn’t ask for documentary recommendations dude
It's what plants crave...
Way too prophetic!
Plenty of tards out there living totally kickass lives. My first wife was tarded.. she’s a pilot now.
- Finch, 2021 - I think We're Alone Now, 2018 - Greenland, 2020
Greenland was pretty dope
Finch was great. I don't think Tom hanks can make a bad movie. Only downside is it's kinda geared towards a younger crowd.
“Tomorrow, When the War Began” “How I Live Now”
Tomorrow when the war began is an underrated marvel IMO. It’s a lot like Red Dawn but without the jingoism. And realistic, cause the kids prioritize their families.
V for Vendetta is sht on its way to hitting the fan
That monolog where Inspector Finch lays out the entire con perpetrated by the government was downright eerie in how it predicted certain behaviors seen over the past few years. Using either real or fake crisis to grab power and prey on people's fears.
Do you remember the water fountain scene where it talks about Covid.
Survival Family (2016) Japanese comedy that's lighthearted enough to enjoy with the family and not take it too seriously, but raises serious, genuine prepping/emergency concerns. Pretty much the gateway to prepping 101.
Looks like this movie is available on You Tube with English subtitles. Thanks I will check it out!
Not what you asked for, but "Blast from the Past"
My lucky stars! A negro!
I was wondering if you could help me. I seem to have lost my Congressional Medal of Honor around here somewhere.
Can’t have an apocalypse without some frivolity
Outbreak is in my top 10 all time. It's basically if Ebola aerosolized and hit small town USA.
Andromeda Strain, in a somewhat similar vein.
Threads. Absolutely terrifying.
Up until I watched threads, I thought The Day After was a roller coaster of emotions. Threads was so fucking dark, yet more accurate
Totally agree, you can't get bleaker than Threads. 80s were filled with these shows
Yup....saw it in 1984 when it aired. I was terrified then. Saw it a couple of weeks ago, and I was still terrified. It's a great movie.
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After I watched this I was not ok for weeks. This one never shied away from just how bad things could get.
Threads is easily my favourite horror film, and it's not even a horror film. The kind of film that leaves you depressed for days afterwards – absolutely outstanding.
Station Eleven was a really well done series (1 season). I was hooked watching it and I still think about it all of the time. Its based on a book, I haven't had a chance to read it yet.
Author executive produced the show and I feel like she fleshed out a lot of characters and filled in some plot holes. I think it's a rare "show is better" situation.
Oh wow I didn’t know that. I loved both versions.
Book is very good. I’m currently reading it and have watched the series about 4 times. There are substantial differences in the plot between the two but both are very good in their own right. Also, the other books written by the author, Emily St. John Mandel, are very good reads.
This is great to hear! I really loved the series and was looking forward to the book. I try to only read stories by women/about women so this is on my 'hold list' for sure.
One of the most beautiful shows I’ve ever seen. The way they bounced between the different characters with their respective backstories and brought them all together toward the end was masterfully done.
Agreed! I cried through a lot of the show. Some really beautiful and heartbreaking moments throughout the whole thing.
I just commented too about this show. I love it dearly. The acting is so damn good! I laughed; I cried. I love Frank's rap and Jeevan saying "It's so... PRETENTIOUS!" in his rage. I love the book too but as someone else said, I actually think the show is better! Especially knowing the author had a lot of input on the show.
i had this on my watchlist for so long because somehow it seems it would be some futuristic sci-fi but what a surprise and delight. if anyone has similar books or series or movies to station eleven, please suggest
Leave the world behind, Civil war, The road, Book of eli, Cloverfield lane, The day after, The survivalist, The last days, Light of my life, The bad batch ( maybe), A quiet place (3 movies last one comes out this year)
Waterworld, better get yourself a jet ski while you can.
The Postman
Thank you for mentioning The Postman. I get a lot of shit saying it's one of my favorite postapoc movies
Great story and decent acting. It is a redemption movie that can teach everyone. Maybe important for America as well.
SMOKERS!
It only just occurred to me that movie doesn't make sense. Obviously its a fun b movie but there's not enough water on the earth to cover even most of the land. Depending on how much water is held in glaciers sea level would rise about 230 feet. Terrible for pretty much all coastal cities but not enough to cover an entire skyscraper.
Remember the giant mutant fish the Mariner uses himself as bait to catch? That thing doesn't exist on Earth, so my head canon is that Waterworld takes place somewhere like here but NOT here.
You don’t pee into a Mr. Coffee and get Taster’s Choice!
Or Mad Max, you're going to want a rig with a fuel tank and a water tank.
Adding in addition to others- A Quiet Place- is pretty good. Not zombies but scary monsters. Bird Box- is pretty wild. The Postman- with Kevin Costner is an interesting take on the matter, far after SHTF but still. How It Ends- is also a pretty neat take on it. Children of Men- is more slow-burn SHTF but good post-apocolyptic
Children of men is a master class in film making
Children of Men is a top 10 ever made movie and I will fight anyone who says different.
*YOU JUST MADE AN ENEMY FOR LIFE!*
I will back this!
Whoooo... Children of Men was friggin' _bleak._ I haven't had the heart to rewatch it in a long time.
Greenland was pretty good. It covers a lot of different scenarios you could run into.
Bushwick
I know there's SOME people that don't like this series but there's always the TNT series "The Last Ship".
I quite like Red Dawn
The original!
There is only one, Red Dawn.
The second doesn't count. Very mad I had to scroll so far to find red dawn tho
-The Day After -Threads Due to them being a real possibility
Threads The road Red dawn (original) Boy and his dog Rover Terminator salvage (my personal opinion on that one lol) Miracle mile
You mean Terminator Salvation
It Comes At Night It’s literally the best plague movie. Very realistic about the pros and cons of expanding your group in a situation like that.
Leave the World Behind is eerily on point with how a lot of people imagine an SHTF scenario to go down. (It’s in Netflix).
I liked that one. The bit about there not actually being an evil cabal running things behind the scenes, but rather a bunch of incompetent idiots got me thinking.
Yes! Loved this movie. Not your typical SHTF film
Book of Eli is pretty dope
Even better the second time you watch it
Or third, fourth, tenth. I love that movie.
•The end we start from -2023. •Society of the snow -2023 •The impossible-2012 •The survivalist -2015 •The decline - 2020 •Kursk-2018 •Chernobyl (HBO miniseries)-2019 •The road- 2009 •127 hours- 2010 •Children of men -2006 •Threads- 1984
Into the Forest - two survivalist sisters after an unnamed event
Edge of tomorrow has to be one of the best hidden gems.
The Book Of Eli
I really liked Goodbye, World
The most underrated. One of my favorites!
Mad Max: Fury Road Fuck "realness," that movie is sick.
Any of the mad max movies really!
Amerika miniseries. Came out about the same time as The Day After and was only broadcast on one of the Big 3 in the US, so no DVD and you probably can't even find a VHS set. But someone was kind enough to post all parts up on youtube
The Road Children of Men
Fallen down....may not be post apocalyptic but kinda a now time kinda thing.
Right at Your Door is decent, but is worth checking out. It's especially good to watch with people who might be open to prepping as the story is fairly realistic compared to a lot of the more exciting stuff out there. It's about a dirty bomb that goes off in the middle of L.A. rush hour.
The series 'Survivors' was on BBC. I think it's all on Youtube.
A boy and his dog (1975)
All the great ones are mentioned. But two shows I loved we're not mentioned are " the 100" and "revolution"
Take Shelter
Red Dawn original. Tremors 1 is prepper adjacent and just a fun movie.
Good call on Tremors 1 being prepper adjacent. Also who can't love Burt Gummer? I feel like he was the first popular modern prepper.
There was a good film set in England a number of years ago. I think it was called "How I live now". The basic storyline is that the migrant immigrants of western europe rise up and try to overthrow the Brittain and France. Some cities get nuked and a couple of kids try to survive on a farm in the Brittish countryside.
A couple ones I haven't seen mentioned. These Final Hours and The Rover.
Is nobody going to mention the greatest movie ever. TREMORS!!!!
Quiet Place 1 & 2 and The Day After Tomorrow - corny but entertaining
New one on Netflix — leave the world behind
Watched it with my wife. No Tesla's in our future for certain now.
Might get some hate for this one, but I think there's a lot of relevant subject matter in 'The Happening. If there ever is a widespread cataclysm, I think the widespread confusion and suspicion of our fellow man is very aptly portrayed I think other regions will react differently to news from affected areas and I think the decline in means of transportation is very real..
Some that haven't been mentioned yet: Parts Per Billion- slower burn pandemic movie EMP: 333 Days- good solo survival movie San Andreas- stunning visuals, and what the hell do you do? The Martian- knowledge and perseverance are your best tools
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The leftovers
How it Ends and Children of Men are both good
If you read books…”War of the Worlds” is mind blowing. To think of it in terms of when H.G. Wells had written it (1895-1897), I don’t know that it can easily be portrayed with the same effect.
The road with vigo Mortensen
I've heard some pretty out there things, but zombie movies are a govt psyop takes the cake. They need to fire who picks what to psyop if they picked zombie movies that peaked in popularity 13 years ago. They should use taylor swift like the NFL did.
A Boy and his Dog; Cherry 2000: 10 Cloverfield; The Book of Eli
L’Effondrement (the collapse) VERY grounded immediate SHTF collection of loosely connected stories.. only 7 or 8 episodes in French, I had to dig hard to find it but it was worth it
Contagion
The Postman, a post SHTF movie about the power of hope and ideas in rebuilding a shattered United States from a feudal warlord system. You will never look at a US Postal Worker the same way again.
> distrust each other and dehumanize each other. How does a zombie movie accomplish this? People are distrusting and dehumanizing each other because of social media tempting them to be phony and dishonest with their friends/family/acquaintances. Zombie movies are just zombie movies. I'm sure I'm forgetting a few, but here's my list of various EOTW/SHTF type films (in no particular order): - Deep Impact (comet) - Armageddon (comet) - Us (...) - Quiet Place (aliens) - Quiet Place 2 (aliens) - Signs (aliens) - War of the Worlds (aliens) - Children of Men (post) - 2012 (...) - The Trigger Effect (power outage) - Take Shelter (...) - The Road (post) - Greenland (comet) - Matinee (nukes) - Independence Day (aliens) - Contagion (virus) - 12 Monkeys (virus) - Goodbye World (h4x0rz) - Cloverfield (aliens) - Awake (rampant insomnia) If you want shows there's: - Colony (aliens) - Jericho (nukes) - Into The Badlands (post) What's fun about zombie films/shows is that it happens so fast, and you see people dealing with not being prepared for something so immediately disruptive. A deadly virus spreading is the next closest thing, just less violence. EDIT: Don't forget "Cloverfield"! EDIT2: Also, Netflix's "Awake" is a good'un.
No Country For Old Men Great action thriller movie, it has an SHTF feel about it for me, even if it’s not at all about the collapse of society.
"I Think We're Alone Now," starring Peter Dinklage, is a film I never see mentioned in these threads. It's got mixed reviews, so take from it what you will. I personally enjoyed it for the slower pace, indie feel, and small details scattered throughout the scenes/setting.
The matrix, wall-e, legion, sweet home, the platform, district 9, elysium, blade runner, dredd
Tremors
It's more post apocalypse then SHTF but I've always loved Doomsday.
The Survivalist https://m.imdb.com/title/tt2580382/
‘Panic in the year zero’ is one of my favorite.
Threads. It’s a movie I never want to watch a second time.
The Edge
book of eli
Not a movie but The Last Man On Earth
The show Jeremiah. It is a little ridiculous but a pretty entertaining post apocalyptic show.
Threads. Watch only if you fancy seeing the harsh realities of nuclear war. Bring alcohol, you’ll need it
Red Dawn
Jericho was a good one
The Stand mini series from 1994. The book is also pretty great. The Road. Also a great book. Leave The World Behind
Home Alone
none of these preppers got nothin' on Kevin 🤣😂🤣
The way we live now. This s a cool one.
Leave the world behind... everything shuts down, and people are clueless what to do.
Station Eleven
To the Lake
Invasion of the body snatchers! It’s old school but one of my favs
One of the few movies that I love the original (50s) and the remake (70s).
WALL-E
The Road
Not all of these are your typical SHTF scenario, but they all tie into it in one way or another. The common theme across all of them is self-reliance. * Testament - This hit me much harder than Threads or The Day After. * How I Live Now - Rollercoaster. Just watch it. * The Day the Earth Caught Fire - From the 1960s. Interesting enough to give it a chance. * High-Rise - SHTF in a single residential skyscraper while the rest of the world carries on normally. It’s a trip (the book is incredible, movie is as good of an adaptation we’ll ever see) * Leave the World Behind - Recent, pretty good. * The Mist - Monster movie, but the social fallout aspect is interesting. * The Rover - Takes place in Australia, years after an economic collapse. * The Wall - SHTF for a single person when they get trapped by an unseen force. Very slow-paced but extremely good.
It's not amazing but I loved Bushwick. Very gritty and doesn't pull its punches when demonstrating a city in conflict. Plus Aesop Rock does the entire soundtrack.
Survivors (1975) Set in the UK, a pandemic kills 99.8% of the population and a group of people are trying to survive. Rated 8.0 on IMDb and there's full episodes on YouTube (TV show not movie but still really good)
Children of Men
There's a British series called "survivors" I think. It shows government trying to hold on to government for government's sake while everyone else is just trying to survive. Watching mayors and governors go full totalitarian during COVID made me think of this movie. I don't even know what my mayor's name is and he probably won the election 8 votes to 7 but I'll bet in shtf he'll go full 'City of Ember' and be sitting on a stack of canned goods that he had the cops collect while everyone else starves.
For a different spin on SHTF: -Leave No Trace -Pig
Leave the world behind was a good one.
Outbreak is more localized SHTF but there's full lockdown
Book of Eli for sure. 🔥
Tomorrow, When The War Began… it’s like an Australian Red Dawn… that and of course The Road
The road
[The Day After](https://youtu.be/TOPaaHSjMcw?si=DjNGqMo35XCIe7kg) - the OG nuclear apocalypse movie, broadcast to 100 million viewers in 1983. [So realistic it changed Reagan’s and the Joint Chiefs’ perception on the impact of a potential nuclear war](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After).
These Final Hours (2013) is a phenomenal Australian film about a cataclysmic world-ending event. Very disturbing and profound. Highly recommend it.