BEYOND THE GRAVE
As wonderfully eccentric a take on zombie cinema as anyone could hope for, a Brazilian made film that’s creepy, perplexing, energetic, gruesome and recommended
THE END OF THE WORLD (1931)
Yikes! An asteroid is heading for Earth, threatening to wipe out the entire planet Sounds like METEOR, DEEP IMPACT, ARMAGEDDON and a host of other modern-day disaster pics, but it’s actually THE END OF THE WORLD, filmmaker Abel Gance’s 1931 epic.
SURVIVAL OF THE DEAD
The final installment of George Romero’s DEAD saga is about on par with his previous efforts LAND OF THE DEAD and DIARY OF THE DEAD: flawed in many respects, but pretty good for the most part
STAKE LAND
If Terrence Malick directed I AM LEGEND the results would probably play a lot like Jim Mickle’s STAKE LAND, a terrific apocalyptic horror fest, and one of the standout films of 2011
THE SILVER GLOBE
Here’s something interesting: an unfinished Polish science fiction film from the seventies that seems to have become a horror movie by default
THE SIGNAL
Hardly the “groundbreaking indie masterpiece” it’s been made out to be, THE SIGNAL (2007) is a semi-experimental anthology film that’s scary, funny and suspenseful—but still not all it could be
ATRAPADOS
ATRAPADOS (1981) is one of the world’s great unknown cult films, a shocking, nightmarish, mind-expanding apocalyptic parable
APOCALYPSE
Evangelical silliness from the nineties that’s probably the best Christian end-of-the-world movie on the market
Y2K: SHUT DOWN DETECTED
Yes, we all know the dreaded “millennium bug” was a joke, but you’re advised to catch Y2K: SHUT DOWN DETECTED, an extremely slick little film marred only by the fact that it really should have been longer
PANIC IN YEAR ZERO!
This 1962 classic is a stark and disquieting look at a socio-economic breakdown in the wake of a nuclear attack