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Wynter Dark

The Kingdom Of New York Will Never Bow To Its Ice-Age Foes, London And Neo Tokyo

The upcoming post-apocalyptic war movie Wynter Dark has released a few concept designs of New York city 800 years in the future, during our next ice age. Looks like Lady Liberty is still standing (as usual in post-apocalyptic movies), but everything else is frozen and desolate. It also appears that the citizens of NYC have constructed some sort of barrier, obviously to keep their enemies from across the pond out of their city. There are no more details other than that out there for the moment on this 20th Century Fox film, but click through for a look at a snow-tank of the future. More »

8:40 AM on Mon Jul 14 2008
By Meredith Woerner
4,415 views, 36 comments

Latest by Grey_Area: @Mister Adequate: aw shucks, you're welcome. Now go change your pants, please. more »

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 »

The Terrifying Super-Lions Of The Post-Apocalypse More proof that environmental collapse is the new apocalypse: Wanted scribes Michael Brandt and Derek Haas have just sold a movie script called All Creatures Great And Small to Sony and producer Neal Moritz. In the future, after the fossil fuels dry up, humans retreat inside walled forts, to defend ourselves against savage, super-evolved animals. Like super-bears and super-lions. (And fearsome super-kangaroos?) It's a fun Jurassic Park-type story, says Brandt: "Because of people's inability to quench their thirst for oil and consumption of resources, we basically ruin the planet, and the planet fights back... And part of that is the quick evolution of many of the animals." [Hollywood Reporter]

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dystopian science fiction

Dystopian Science Fiction Can Save The World, According To You

If you want to save the world, you should study worst-case scenarios for the future, according to 20,000 science fiction fans. The Sci Fi Channel did an online poll, through its Visions For Tomorrow initiative, to find out the top "things to read, watch and do to save the world." And the winners were dark tales of a world gone to hell, including Blade Runner, 1984, Firefly, the new Battlestar Galactica and The Matrix. An exclusive first look at all the winners, below the fold. More »

12:20 PM on Mon Jun 16 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
2,582 views, 31 comments

Latest by n/a: Sorry I meant Soylent green not Green solient. more »

2015

Make Your Own Cloverfield, For ABC's Fucked-Future Documentary

We're freaking doomed, according to a new documentary coming in September from ABC News. 2100 will look at the next century, which could be "the last century of our civilization," thanks to global warming, food and fuel shortages, population explosion and general apocalyptic mania. But ABC's super-depressing documentary also has a fun side — you get to create your own dystopian home movies, which may be featured as part of the show. The sample they showed on Good Morning America today looks incredibly Cloverfield-esque, which is a Good Thing. I'm almost ready for New York to vanish under the ocean if it means more teenagers will make their own dystopian home movies. [ABC News]

4:30 PM on Thu Jun 12 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
1,916 views, 15 comments

Latest by avconsumer: ABC "news" huh? Shouldn't that be somehow illegal? Great, something else to scare the cattle. more »

found footage

Can The Children Of Men Escape From New York?

Our hero Snake PlisskenParsifal busts the world's last fertile woman out of a maximum security facility staffed by knights in armor armed with laser crossbows (pew! pew!) in this awesome sequence from Italian post-apocalyptic masterpiece 2019: After The Fall Of New York. More »

8:00 PM on Wed Jun 4 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
3,579 views, 32 comments

city of ember

First Look At Saoirse Ronan's Postapocalyptic Detective In City Of Ember

Here's the first trailer from October's City Of Ember, a kids' movie set in a postapocalyptic underground city whose power generator is running out of juice. Our first glimpse includes the corrupt mayor (Bill Murray) trying to rally the town. Everything depends on two crafty kids, who follow a path of clues down ancient tunnels and passages. Learn more about the challenges that meet the kids below (including minor spoilers). More »

10:40 AM on Fri May 16 2008
By Meredith Woerner
2,854 views, 21 comments

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 »

babylon a.d.

Finally, A Dystopia Grim Enough For Vin Diesel

Here's the first teaser trailer for August's Babylon A.D., the troubled Vin Diesel future dystopia movie based on a French graphic novel. It looks as pretty as you'd expect from director Matthieu Kassovitz (Gothika), and the scenes of Russia and China sliding into chaos look alarmingly lifelike. Plus, Vin Diesel is still mostly bald and charmingly thuggish, and we finally get to see Michelle Yeoh. I'm still cautiously optimistic. Click through for a gallery of new stills. More »

12:00 PM on Thu May 1 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
6,625 views, 39 comments

Latest by Klebert L. Hall: @nonbreakingspace: Just play anything by Games Workshop (okay, maybe not the historicals or LotR), and make your own sequel. -Kle. more »

junot diaz

Trapped On A Post-Apocalyptic Highway, In A Robot Truck

All of a sudden, I'm desperate to read Junot Diaz's new science fiction novel — just as soon as he can finish it. Diaz, who just won the Pulitzer Prize for The Brief And Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao, a book littered with nerdy references to Star Wars and comics, shared a brief excerpt from his new novel-in-progress, Dark America, during an Amazon.com interview. And's a dazzling passage, set aboard a robot truck in a desolate future world. More »

3:30 PM on Wed Apr 16 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
1,525 views, 9 comments

Latest by n/a: My partial memory of the movie makes me think that they did indeed try it with a cow. It seems like they made several attempts from a person waiting in the road and chickening out to tying up either more »

wall-e

What Does Wall-E Have To Hide?

We've watched the trailers for Pixar's upcoming cute-bot movie Wall-E a zillion times, but we still had lingering questions. Like, why is Wall-E so alone at the start of the movie? What happened to all the other robots? Is Wall-E really as nice as he seems, or is there a hidden sociopathic side to the postapocalyptic robot? And a few other questions that we won't mention, for fear of spoilering people who've avoided even the first trailer. Anyway, a new featurette answers a lot of our questions with some narration by director Andrew Stanton, and also shows off a decent amount of footage we haven't seen before. More »

8:20 AM on Wed Apr 16 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
2,839 views, 19 comments

Latest by Monster Chalk: Man you guys shoulda warned for this one, that clip is straight up SPOILERIFIC. Thanks buddies. more »

poll

Now That Plagues Are Played Out, What Should Be Movies' Next Apocalypse?

We fell in love with Doomsday's plague-quarantine horror, but sadly the rest of the world failed to fall with us. And maybe the failure of yet another movie about a deadly virus wrecking civilization means that people are finally sick of plagues? After I Am Legend, 28 Days/Weeks, and countless others, it's time for something else to take its turn crashing everything down. What do you think should be our new global disaster movie meme? More »

1:52 PM on Tue Mar 25 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
4,886 views, 105 comments

retro-futurism

Nuclear Missiles Are Rock Stars In Moscow

Russians prepare to parade nuclear missiles through Red Square as part of the annual Victory Day celebrations. The procession of Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, a scary Cold War tradition, ended after the Soviet Union fell, but now Russia is reviving it. Call it apocalyptic retro-futurist nostalgia. Or maybe just overcompensation. Either way, Russians will be screaming and maybe throwing their underwear at these shiny gray WMDs. A gallery of weapon-porn, after the jump. More »

11:40 AM on Thu Mar 20 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
2,196 views, 34 comments

Latest by Guizzy: They forgot to put the price tags. more »

mad max reenactments

Vent Your Atomic Road Rage With Mad Max Reenactments

You've just seen Doomsday, and you're pumped to strap a bolt-gun to your car and go on a mohawked demolition-derby frenzy. Luckily for you, there's a whole society (cult?) devoted to reenacting Mad Max: The Road Warrior on the highways of America... and they've only gotten thrown in jail once. Details and a gallery below the fold. More »

10:02 AM on Tue Mar 18 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
11,790 views, 40 comments

Latest by n/a: Who, exactly, wrote this? I hope it's not a 'news' type item. As usual, some of the facts are wrong and certain comments in it are a liitle misleading. If you read it, it sounds like this is an organized more »

found footage

Worst Postapocalyptic Game Of Death Ever

A nuclear holocaust has caused a new ice age and all but wiped out humanity... and the survivors kill time with pointless murder games. Robert Altman's Quintet has two of the greatest movie concepts in history jammed together, in a quintessentially 1970s blend of apocalypse and wacky death game. No wonder Paul Newman is excited! It's like stumbling into Rollerball, Death Race 2000, Jericho and the Sci Fi Channel's Ice all rolled into one. (And check out the proto-Bartertown sets, complete with weird slogans.) Sadly, the seemingly innocent game of Quintet hides a dark secret, as you'll see after the jump. More »

11:20 AM on Thu Mar 13 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
2,910 views, 35 comments

Latest by Captain Valiant: This movie (Quintet, remember? It was mentioned up there above the millions of Newman/Redford corrections) is the only Robert Altman movie I hate. In fact, it's also my least favorite postapocalyptic game of death. It's no Blood of Heroes. It's more »

Wall-E, Social Critic The most controversial movie of the summer... Wall-E? That's what one writer is claiming. The G-rated animated movie presents a dire image of a morbidly obese human race, crammed into giant spaceships and exhorted to ever greater depths of over-consumption by signs saying "DO YOUR PART, FILL YOUR CART." (Remember those shopping carts in the trailer?) Meanwhile, the reason Wall-E has been left as the only custodian of Earth is because the human race has rendered it uninhabitable with pollution and heedless consumer culture. Somehow, I doubt the inevitable toy tie-in ads will mention these aspects of the film. [Jim Hill Media]

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sci fashion

Worst Possible Outfits for the Apocalypse

When society implodes, women need to make themselves easy zombie targets, so the boys can run to the hills and get weaponized. That seems to be the point of a lot of self-proclaimed post-apocalyptic fashion, at least. From floor-length hobble skirts with a million straps to straitjackets to kinky boots, the clothes in SludgeFaktory's post-apocalyptic collection would be worst thing to wear while trying to escape from cannibal bikers. Weirdly, mainstream fashion designers are creating more appropriate dystopian future-wear. Click through for images. More »

1:30 PM on Wed Mar 12 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
5,685 views, 57 comments

Latest by Mecharine: Those skirts look like theyre made from discarded duffel bags. more »

interview

Doomsday's Neil Marshall Explains Apocalypses Without Monsters

The Descent was one of our favorite horror movies of recent years, so we were automatically excited about director Neil Marshall's new movie, Doomsday. And that was before we found out Doomsday was going to be Mad to the Max. In Doomsday, the government walls off Scotland to contain a deadly plague... only to send a team into the shattered country 30 years later. We talked to Marshall about strong women, genre confusion, and why Doomsday has no monsters. More »

12:07 PM on Mon Mar 10 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
2,896 views, 20 comments

Latest by IntoAshes: @aspiringexpatriate: They didn't? Looking at those clips you could have fooled me. more »

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