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
LETTERS FROM A DEAD MAN
From pre-Glasnost Russia, a profoundly grim and depressing look at the aftermath of a nuclear war that’s also a supremely lyrical, poetic piece of filmmaking
THE LAST WAVE
Australian director Peter Weir’s follow-up to his masterful PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK was this dreamlike exercise in apocalyptic fantasy that’s nearly as powerful as the earlier film
THE LAST MAN ON EARTH
This 1964 film has been accorded classic status, presumably due to many viewers’ nostalgic memories of seeing it as a child, or maybe just because it’s old