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Dear Beautiful

The World's Most Beautiful Zombies

Roland Becerra's terrifyingly lovely animated short, Dear Beautiful, is being turned into a full-length movie. The jarringly realistic animation follows Paul, a married man whose marriage is in trouble. Paul's wife sniffs a deadly new flower that is popping up all over their home state of Connecticut. The contaminated flower (tarnished by a nearby make-up laboratory) slowly turns Paul's beloved into a crazed zombie. Unable to accept her transformation, Paul goes about living his life with his zombie wife, much to the horror of his friends and family. Click through to check out the trailer. More »

8:40 AM on Tue Jul 8 2008
By Meredith Woerner
5,380 views, 23 comments

Latest by Doug Nelson: Too dark. No, seriously, I can hardly see it. more »

poll

What's The Greatest Post-Apocalyptic Movie For Kids?

Will City Of Ember be the first post-apocalyptic movie aimed at kids? Based on Jeanne DuPrau's young adult novel, Ember features two kids discovering there's a world outside the dying underground city that they've lived in for the past 250 years. And director Gil Kenan (Monster House) sees it as a visual, epic teen adventure movie. But is it really the first ruined-world movie aimed at kids, as post-apocalyptic blog Quiet Earth claims? The Boston Globe's Josh Glenn says no, there have been plenty of others. Click through to vote for the greatest. More »

1:02 PM on Wed May 14 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
5,138 views, 55 comments

Latest by Jonny_eh: What about Blast From the Past? Or is that not post-apocalyptic since the apocalypse never happened? more »

doomsday vault

Norway Builds Giant Shelter For The End Of The World

Norway's "Doomsday Vault" will open tomorrow, just in time to safeguard our biodiversity against the apocalypse. Carved into the permafrost of a remote Arctic mountain, about 620 miles from the North Pole, the vault has been built to withstand nuclear missiles or a plane crash on top of it, but it's also far enough above sea level that it won't be flooded by melting icecaps. Click through for more images of the Doomsday Vault. More »

10:23 AM on Mon Feb 25 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
6,901 views, 29 comments

Latest by jbq: Damn, that looks like it was designed by Mike Mignola - maybe it's the set for Hellboy III? That's gotta be Lobster Johnson in the first picture! :-D more »

jericho

Jericho Predicted The Blackwater Scandals

This week's episode of post-apocalyptic drama Jericho pits our hero Jake Green against Ravenwood, the government security contractor he used to work for. When the producers were originally coming up with ideas for a TV show about the collapse of governing institutions after nuclear attacks, they did a lot of research into contractors like Halliburton and Blackwater operating in the chaos of post-invasion Iraq, producer Carol Barbee revealed at Wondercon. Jericho's portrayal of unaccountable contractors presaged the Blackwater scandals, which hadn't yet come out. More about the politics of Jericho, after the jump. More »

4:38 PM on Sun Feb 24 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
1,989 views, 7 comments

Latest by MyEasyTV: And technically that horrible movie "The Siege" predicated that Muslims would be harassed in the future. more »