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#foundfootage
Come To Post-Apocalyptic Boston For The Eastern European Charm, Stay For The Sewer Mutants
Welcome to the streets of post-apocalyptic Boston, Massachusetts: the plague hit so hard, the buildings look Bulgarian and the cars are all Yugos. It's just one of the charms of Adrenalin: Fear The Rush, including a great sewer mutant fight. More » -
#madmaterials
Build a Post-Apocalyptic Shelter Out of Cloth: Just Add Water
Concrete Cloth makes the perfect addition to your apocalyptic shopping list. The flexible cloth is easily transported, but transforms into a sturdy concrete shelter after it gets wet. More » -
#cosycatastrophe
British Books Offer A "Cosy" Antidote To Apocalyptic Horror. Let's Be Civilized, Shall We?
Looking for an alternative to the horrific scenarios of 2012 and The Road? Try the "cosy catastrophe" genre, the Guardian suggests: Stories like Day Of The Triffids and The World In Winter feature a less violent version of the end. More » -
#conceptart
Heroin Fun Kits, Suicide Cola, and Other Unfortunate Products from the Apocalypse
Will corporations still market to consumers at the end of the world? Designer Carl Bender certainly thinks so, and his series Anarkon imagines the sorts of products companies will try to sell consumers after the apocalypse, complete with pretty packaging. More » -
#foundfootage
How To Reattach A Severed Robot Head
Rutger Hauer finds a severed robot head on the ground, and helps it get a new body, in this hilariously unconvincing sequence from Omega Doom. Too bad Robot Blade was using that head as a soccer ball... and he's pissed. -
#booklists
Gaming Manuals That Will Prepare You For An Alternate World
You can't wander into the speculative future (or alternative past) blindly – you need a guide to show you the way. These five game manuals are the best at explaining aliens, mutants, angry robots and even non-sparkly vampires. More » -
#conceptart
Times Square Still Shines, Even After the Flood
After the sea levels rise, airships, rowboats, and gondola lifts with replace New York's subways and taxi cabs. The Aqualta series imagines New York 40 years into the future, when the city's once-crowded streets have filled with quiet waters. More » -
#conceptart
Nature Reclaims a Post-Apocalyptic Disney World
Epic Mickey's stylized concept art is a mecha-filled vision of the Disney apocalypse, but Alexis Rockman's paintings take a more natural view of a post-human Disney World — and imagines other cities and monuments long after we're gone. More » -
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#theroad
"The Road" Is Lined With Dismal Sayings, Skulls On Sticks In New Trailer
Thanksgiving will see you giving thanks that you're not living in the movie adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's The Road, judging from the ultra-bleak new trailer. Takeaway message: the world is dying, and pleasant dreams mean you've given up on living. More » -
#poll
Which Overused Trope Are We Sickest Of?
There's nothing scarier than deja vu: that feeling that everything we've seen before will keep coming back over and over again, until your head dissolves. Which overused trope are you most sick of: zombies, vampires, alt-universes, post-apocalyptic worlds or steampunk? More » -
#apocalypticvacation
Choose Concrete Mushrooms For Your Next Post-Apocalyptic Vacation
A relic of WWII paranoia, Albania's "concrete mushroom" bunkers dot the country's landscape, from the oceans, to the mountains, to the cemeteries. Now, a group wants to reclaim the bunkers and transform them into eco-friendly hotels. More » -
#foundfootage
When A Nuclear Holocaust Wrecks Civilization, It's Important To Be A Nipple Connoisseur
Three great moments from 1985's post-apocalyptic Def-Con 4: Three astronauts watch a nuclear holocaust claim the entire world. A post-apocalyptic survivalist demands to know, in great detail, about the female astronauts nipples. And a teenager whips slaves dragging a space-capsule. More » -
#assaultgirls
Hot Monster Hunters vs The Sand Whale Apocalypse
If the Assault Girls teaser didn't sate your appetite for gun-toting girls battling graboid-like monsters in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, the full trailer is here, with more clips of our monster-slaying ladies kicking human and sand-whale ass. More » -
#foundfootage
Now This Is A Post-Apocalyptic Ruckus We Can All Subscribe To
Eat your blistery hearts out, Zombieland and The Road. They don't make post-apocalyptic epics like 1985's Wheels Of Fire anymore. Witness skin-peeling punks, a speechifying harem-gathering warlord, and the would-be rapist who gets knifed in the crotch. Plus machine-gun kick-boxing! -
#modernruins
The Ruins of Chernobyl, Over 20 Years Later
In 1986, the disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant forced the residents of the town of Prypiat to evacuate, never to return. Today, Prypiat is a collection of crumbling buildings, and nature has begun to reclaim the city. More » -
#nuclearapocalypse
Gamers Play Fallout — In the Real World
A group of over 200 Russian role players enacted their own Fallout-style video game, offering a taste of how the nuclear apocalypse might look. Check out the gallery of their gameplay, complete with military encampments, radiation suits, and atomic zombies. More » -
#triviagasm
The Cities You Can Never Leave
Science fiction imagines strange and wondrous cities in our future, but many are less paradise than prison. We take an ill-advised vacation inside the cities that will never let you leave.
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#sarahconnorchronicles
An Intense Deleted Scene From SCC Shows John Connor's Bitterness, Cameron's Deathwish
The second season of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles comes out on DVD and BluRay Sept. 22... just in time for a new season not to start. Sigh. As the next best thing, we have a new deleted scene, below. More »
