post apocalyptic fiction/film/tv

[rhod]

Even sillier, but worth watching IMO is America 3000

It doesn't take itself too seriously - I mean any post-apocalyptic film that has a mutant hairy guy running around with a pre-nuke ghetto-blaster rescued from the President's bunker has to be worth watching for a laugh, right?

And the scene where a guy teaches himself to read after a few years of fondling a chilld's story book raises a chuckle or two..

 

[8den]

Even sillier, but worth watching IMO is America 3000

It doesn't take itself too seriously - I mean any post-apocalyptic film that has a mutant hairy guy running around with a pre-nuke ghetto-blaster rescued from the President's bunker has to be worth watching for a laugh, right?

And the scene where a guy teaches himself to read after a few years of fondling a chilld's story book raises a chuckle or two..

Can't be a good as the cavemen flying F-16s in Battlefield Earth.

definitely check this out

http://www.quietearth.us/postapoc.htm

Excellent site.

 

[cat107]

Try this site for a pretty comprehensive list of TV, films and books.

http://www.empty-world.com/

 

[rhod]

Stephen Baxter - Flood and Moonseed. Both are excellent, especially because of the British bias in locations. Flood does get a a little tedious as it mainly covers a pretty relentless rise in sea level.

Looked up the blurb for Moonseed, and I'm sold on it ! Sounds great - but poor old fuckin Scotland, eh?

A world-class disaster epic worthy of any Saturday matinee, Moonseed opens with the spectacular, explosive death of Venus, an event requiring energy a thousand billion times the world's nuclear arsenal. As the radioactive blast from the late Venus reaches Earth, scientists scramble to attribute a cause, with massless black holes and elementary particles the size of bacteria pointing towards some sort of superstring as the smoking gun. The pace quickens when the substance that may have caused the demise of Venus is accidentally introduced to Earth. This substance, dubbed moonseed, acts as a geological lubricant: processes that normally take millions of years occur in mere months with moonseed in the picture. Once Scotland and the state of Washington get gobbled up by this rock-eating, 10th-dimensional nano-lifeform, all hell breaks loose and the search turns towards finding safe refuge for humanity on the Moon. The book's second half is a seat-of-your-pants, what-if exploration of space travel and terraforming.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

definitely check this out

http://www.quietearth.us/postapoc.htm

Interestingly, or rather 'oddly' they don't have the ultimate post apocalyptic film 'The Quiet Earth'

Everyone on earth vanishes.

 

[Giles]

Quatermass. I have the DVD, and the book.

Loved watching this when I was a kid.

Giles..

 

[rhod]

Right At Your Door was quite an interesting low budget film from a couple of years back. Plot centered around how you would react in the aftermath of a nuclear explosion, and having secured your "refuge" how you would deal with loved ones left on the outside...

(I'm sure the plot was a bit of a Twilight Zone rip-off, but then you could say that about a lot of films)!

 

[8den]

Interestingly, or rather 'oddly' they don't have the ultimate post apocalyptic film 'The Quiet Earth'

Everyone on earth vanishes.

Ohhhh I have that, never watched it though.

 

[hermitical]

Interestingly, or rather 'oddly' they don't have the ultimate post apocalyptic film 'The Quiet Earth'

Everyone on earth vanishes.

it's on their list between The Quick and the Undead and The Silent City:

The Quiet Earth
A man finds himself the only living person on the planet, and you get to watch him go crazy, boozing and dancing around in women's clothing.
Rating: 10 | Director: Geoff Murphy | IMDB | Trailer | Amazon

 

[Dr. Furface]

I haven't seen it for years and years but I remember the original 1959 version of On The Beach as being terrific. Australia awaits the radiation fallout from a nuclear war that has wiped out the rest of humanity.

 

[xenon]

For TV: The Day of the Triffids. BBC drama at its best.

The book Z for Zachariah pretty good too. Not read it since school though.

 

[xenon]

^^^also a great book by jon wyhndam


I have fond memories of Jean Ures Plague series

I'm sure I've read the book. Can't remember how the end differs from the TV series.

Was it TV, where they discover sea water kills the them. Or was that in the book too?

*wiki's*

 

[DotCommunist]

I'm sure I've read the book. Can't remember how the end differs from the TV series.

Was it TV, where they discover sea water kills the them. Or was that in the book too?

*wiki's*

In the book an intrepid band of goodies fled to the isle of wight and left the mainland to the triffids and the neo-fuedalist madmen.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Ohhhh I have that, never watched it though.

I saw half of it on telly when I was a kid and didn't know what it was. When the internet came along I asked some people on a DVD forum and they told me.
It's a cheapo DVD. Annoyingly the sound drifts out of sync throughout the film, by the end it's intolerable.

Good fun film though, I love the last shot.