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Compiled By: gammahammer@yahoo.com
Brought to you by: The Post Apocalyptic Forge
05/28/04
The following movie list is NOT strictly post apocalyptic. Some apocalyptic events are local
or regional and not world wide, some movies/shows have merely a post apocalyptic ‘feel’.
Also included are Animated Movies, Animated Series, TV movies and TV Series. Please
contact me if you see information you know to be in error or that you wish to add.
Genre Notes:
PA – Post Apocalyptic in the strictest sense
PA regional – for a small region, the world has ended as they know it
PA historical – Post Apocalyptic once upon a time, but now society is rebuilding
PA feel – NOT a Post Apocalyptic movie/show, but has that roasted PA smell and feel
PA fanciful – while strictly speaking is PA, it has either strange elements to its story or is
intended as satire or humor and has little to do with traditional PA themes.
PA adult – adult themes and images not suited for the kiddies.
PA ? – I haven’t seen it, and can’t tell from it’s description how to sort this one, so your
guess is as good as mine. Please do let me know for sure.
Deliberate Omissions: These are ‘marginal’ movies I felt just didn’t quite cut the mustard,
either in feel or in more substantive ways, like plot direction. You are more than welcome
to harbor your own standards of ‘acceptable’ material, as I know my decisions are arbitrary
Night of the Living Dead - The story follows a small group of survivors barricaded in a
home for one night. The civil authorities show up the following morning. There is no
general breakdown of society and it only affects a very small regional area.
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes – simply put, absolutely nothing PA about this movie,
except it sets the background for the other Planet of the Apes movies and series.
Escape from the Planet of the Apes – Set in contemporary, but alternate timeline, nothing
to do with PA, but it does set some more of the background for the other Planet of the
Apes movies and series.
When Worlds Collide – deals with the apocalyptic events, not the ‘after effects’. There is a
book After Worlds Collide that is the direct sequel and is quite an interesting read.
Resident Evil – One giant underground facility gone bad does not seem ‘apocalyptic’
enough for me. It is more thriller/horror genre than anything else. PA elements too few.
The PA Related Movies List
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12 Monkeys
Category : Drama/PA
Starring : Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, Brad Pitt
Director : Terry Gilliam
Year : 1996
Description
Inspired by Chris Marker's acclaimed short film La Jetée (which is included on the DVD
Short 2: Dreams), 12 Monkeys combines intricate, intelligent storytelling with the uniquely
imaginative vision of director Terry Gilliam. The story opens in the wintry wasteland of the
year 2035, where a virulent plague has forced humans to live in a squalid, oppressively
regimented underground. Bruce Willis plays a societal outcast who is given the opportunity
to erase his criminal record by "volunteering" to time-travel into the past to obtain a pure
sample of the deadly virus that will help future scientists to develop a cure. But in bouncing
from 1918 to the early and mid-1990s, he undergoes an ordeal that forces him to question
his own perceptions of reality. Caught between the dangers of the past and the
devastation of the future, he encounters a psychiatrist (Madeleine Stowe) who is initially
convinced he's insane, and a wacky mental patient (Brad Pitt in a twitchy Oscar-nominated
role) with links to a radical group that may have unleashed the deadly virus. Equal parts
mystery, tragedy, psychological thriller, and apocalyptic drama, 12 Monkeys ranks as one
of the best science fiction films of the '90s, boosted by Gilliam's visual ingenuity and one of
the finest performances of Willis's career.
28 Days Later
Category : Sci-Fi / Horror/PA regional
Starring : Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris,
Director : Danny Boyle
Year : 2002
Description
A powerful virus escapes from a British research facility. Transmitted in a drop of blood
and devastating within seconds, the virus locks those infected into a permanent state of
murderous rage. Within 28 days the country is overwhelmed and a handful of survivors
begin their attempts to salvage a future, little realizing that the deadly virus is not the only
thing that threatens them.
Andromeda
Category: TV Series/Space Genre/PA historical
Starring: Kevin Sorbo
Director: Jorge Montesi
Year: 2000
Description
The Glorious Commonwealth:
More than 3000 years ago, aliens from a planet called Tarn Vedra in the Andromeda
galaxy invented a way to travel across the stars almost instantaneously. They called it
Slipstream, and they used it to build a vast commonwealth of planets across six galaxies.
When Earth was ready, we were welcomed into it.
It was a vast, diverse group of cultures working together in peace, striving to spread
civilization across the Universe. Unfortunately, some factions came to disagree with the
Commonwealth's methods.
The Fall:
The Nietzscheans - a group of genetically engineered humans who follow a strict
interpretation of Nietzsche - felt that the Commonwealth was weak because it made
treaties with its greatest enemies - the Magog. So they formed a rebellion and attacked the
Commonwealth of which they were a part. The result was a civil war that plunged the
Universe into a new Dark Age.
One of the first casualties of that war was a Glorious Heritage Class starship called the
Andromeda Ascendant. Most of her crew abandoned ship, but her captain - Dylan Hunt -
remained on board as the ship fell dangerously close to a black hole.
The Long Night:
Three hundred years of darkness passed. The Commonwealth was gone. Interstellar
communication became undependable. Slipstream routes fell into disuse. Some still
traveled the stars, but the journey was full of piracy, unmarked dangers and people fighting
for their lives. Technology stopped developing and even reverted in some ways. A few
local governments held together, but most of them were brutal and fascist. The remnants
of the old Commonwealth decayed.
Andromeda Rescued:
A salvage vessel called the Eureka Maru then found the Andromeda Ascendant and pulled
her free. When they boarded the High Guard relic, they found that Dylan Hunt had
survived - the whole ship had been caught in severe time dilatation. From Dylan's
perspective, only a few moments had passed since his crew escaped. But outside the
black hole, darkness had fallen across his beloved Commonwealth.
Time to Rebuild:
Dylan once protected civilization, he now felt an obligation to rebuild what had been lost.
As someone who knew what it was like to live in a Universe that was for the most part safe
and at peace, he felt he and his ship could bring back the Commonwealth. He recruited
the crew of the Eureka Maru, and ever since they have been searching the galaxies for
worlds who are willing to join the New Commonwealth.
Army of Darkness
Category : Action/Comedy, Horror/PA feel
Starring : Bruce Campbell
Director : Sam Raimi
Year : 1993
Description
The third in director Sam Raimi's stylish, comic book-like horror trilogy that began with The
Evil Dead (1982), this tongue-in-cheek sequel offers equal parts sword and sorcery-style
action, gore, and comedy. Bruce Campbell returns as the one-armed Ash, now a
supermarket employee ("Shop Smart. . .Shop S-Mart") who is transported by the powers
of a mysterious book back in time with his Oldsmobile '88 to the 14th century medieval era.
armed only with a shotgun, his high school chemistry textbook and a chainsaw that
mounts where his missing appendage once resided, the square-jawed, brutally competent
Ash quickly establishes himself as a besieged kingdom's best hope against an "army of
darkness" currently plaguing the land. Since the skeleton warriors have been resurrected
with the aid of the Necronomicon (the same tome that can send Ash back to his own time)
he agrees to face the enemy in battle. Ash also finds romance of a sort along the way with
a beautiful damsel in distress, Sheila (Embeth Davidtz) and contends with his own
doppelganger after mangling an important incantation. This movie also has its original
apocalyptic ending.
Bridge of Dragons
Category : Action/PA
Starring : Dolph Lundgren, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
Director : Isaac Florentine
Year : 1999
Description
In this action-oriented sci-fi adventure, a military leader who is drunk with power takes
control of a rival kingdom in a post-apocalyptic world of the future. The young princess
who helps guide the nation flees for her life, and a champion warrior (Dolph Lundgren) is
set out by the crazed general to capture her. But before his assignment is completed, the
warrior finds his loyalties are severely tested.
Beowulf
Category : PA
Starring :
Director :
Year : 1999
Description:
Christoper Lambert stars in this post-apocalyptic future story based on the 8th century
Saxon epic poem about the knight who battled a monster in a medieval castle. In this
story, Beowulf is a wanderer who learns about a man-eating creature called Grendel which
comes in the night to devour warriors trapped at the Outpost. The Outpost is ruled by
Hrothgar (Oliver Cotton). He has a daughter (Patricia Velasquez), whose husband may
have been murdered by the Outpost's master of arms (Goetz Otto).
Blood of Heroes
Category : Action/PA
Starring : Rutger Hauer, Joan Chen
Director : David Webb Peoples
Year : 1989
Description
Set in the post-nuclear war world, a group of battle-torn men and women challenge rival
townships to a brutal game of strength and skill. It is their hope to defeat all their
challengers and earn the right to play against the great and blood-thirsty teams in the
'League'.
Cherry 2000
Category : Action/PA feel
Starring : Melanie Griffith, David Andrews, Pamela Gidley
Director : Steve De Jarnatt
Year : 1988
Description
At long last, one of the seminal films of the Melanie Griffith oeuvre is now available. Cherry
2000 is the heartwarming tale of Sam Treadwell (David Andrews), who will stop at nothing
to find another model of his broken sex android. Griffith plays E. Johnson, the tough-as-
nails tracker who helps him track her down. As deliriously chowderheaded as the premise
of the movie sounds, it's actually not half bad and immensely fun to watch. The surprisingly
mature plot (nobody gets naked!) involves Treadwell's gradual discovery that there's more
to a good woman than a beautiful body and perfect subservience. Don't worry, there are
plenty of explosions to keep you from getting bored. Griffith absolutely owns the movie--
she looks like a complete badass handling surface-to-air missiles, though of course she
still sounds like she picked up diction tips from early Shirley Temple movies. The DVD
version includes the invaluable documentary "The Making of Cherry 2000" and the option
of watching the entire film dubbed into French.
Cybercity
Category : Action/PA
Starring : C. Thomas Howell, Roddy Piper, Heidi Von Palleske
Director : Peter Hayman
Year : 1999
Description
In 2017, the survivors of a worldwide apocalypse do battle for supremacy in this sci-fi
adventure. Most of the Earth has been reduced to ruins, and the pitiful few who have
survived have moved underground and organized themselves into religious cults who
wage war among themselves for dominion over what's left of the planet. A self-ordained
holy man (Roddy Piper) kills the family of a roving mercenary (C. Thomas Howell), and the
warrior swears revenge. He joins forces with a beautiful female killer-for-hire (Heidi Von
Palleke) and they set out to win back the world for the forces of good. Cybercity also
features David Carradine
Cyborg
Category : Action/PA
Starring : Jean-Claude Van Damme, Deborah Richter
Director : Albert Pyun
Year : 1989
Description
Jean-Claude Van Damme, a.k.a. "the Muscles from Brussels," had only a few movies to
his credit when he played the hero in this lame post apocalyptic action flick from 1989. It's
really just another martial-arts movie, dressed down with near-future trash and dirty sets
that have "low budget" written all over them. Van Damme plays the protective escort for a
half-human, half-cyborg woman whose programming contains a possible cure for a plague
that's threatening to wipe out the entire population of Earth. But the woman is kidnapped
by Van Damme's evil nemesis (is there any other kind?) while they are en route to her
Atlanta headquarters. That leads Van Damme right into a lion's den of sadomasochistic
torture and torment. If you've made it this far (and if you have, why?), you're probably a
founding member of the Jean-Claude Van Damme fan club. To everyone else: Don't say
you weren't warned--this is the kind of movie in which naming characters after electric
guitars (Van Damme's character is named "Gibson Rickenbacker") qualifies as clever
screenwriting.
Cyborg 2
Category : Action/PA ?
Starring : Jack Palance, Elias Koteas, Billy Drago
Director : Michael Schroeder
Year : 1993
Description
In the year 2074, when the manufacture of cyborgs is big business , one manufacturer
injects a liquid explosive into a female cyborg in order to blow up his rival's headquarters.
When she escapes, two lethal pursuers are soon on her trail.
Cyborg 3 - Recycler
Category : Action/PA ?
Starring : Zach Galligan, Khrystyne Haje
Director : Michael Schroeder
Year : 1995
Description
The latest cyborg creation represents a dangerous step in man's evolution--she has been
programmed to become a creator. Can mankind compete against its own creations?
Damnation Alley
Category : Action/PA
Starring : Jan-Michael Vincent, George Peppard
Director : Jack Smight
Year : 1977
Description
Based on the classic sci-fi novel by Roger Zelany, a small but hardy band of survivors
traverses a post-apocalypse American landscape in this sci-fi thriller. After a nuclear
holocaust leaves only three survivors (Jan-Michael Vincent, George Peppard, and Paul
Winfield) at an underground military facility, they load up a special all-terrain land cruiser
and head for Albany (for some reason, the only American city not nuked). As they travel
through the wastelands in between, they pick up a couple hitch-hikers as they battle huge
mutant insects, roving bands of radiation-maddened survivors, and brutal electrical storms.
Dark Angel
Category : TV/Sci-Fi/PA feel
Starring : Jessica Alba / Michael Weatherly
Director : Created by -James Cameron/Charles H. Eglee
Year : 2000
Description :
With a marginalized and devastated America as backdrop an escaped genetic experiment
tries to get her life back together and find her past while being hunted by the secretive
agency which initiated the genetic experiments that created her and others like her.
Dark Vengeance
Category : Action/Sci-Fi/PA
Starring : Jay Roberts Jr/Denice Duff
Director : Faruque Ahmed
Year : 1992
Description :
Set in a distant post-apocalyptic future when the environment has been blasted into a
poisoned wasteland and society has degenerated to rule by competing hordes of
marauding gangs. There is one warrior, though, who fights to bring some semblance of
peace and order to the land. When his family is brutally murdered, however, he becomes
obsessed with seeking out their killer and taking his revenge.
Dead or Alive-Final
Category : PA
Starring : Dominique Pinon/Bernard Montiel
Directory : Paulo Machline
Year : 2002
Description :
Set in a post apocalyptic Yokohama where the population is kept under rigid control by a
half crazed mayor, Riki Takeuchi is a hard boiled cop and Show Aikawa a mellowed out
drifter that hooks up with a gang of rebels. When the gang kidnap Takeuchi's son, the
wheels are set in motion that leads to an inevitable showdown.
Death Sport
Category : Action/PA
Starring : David Carradine
Director : Allan Arkush
Year : 1978
Description
David Carradine romps around in a loin-cloth as Kaz Oshay, a good-guy biker who hops
on his destructo-cycle to participate in a sport to the death, in Roger Corman's futuristic
gladiator motorcycle film. The film takes place 1000 years after the "Neutron Wars" have
decimated civilization, except for pockets of domed cities. Surrounding the cities are vast
wastelands called "ranges." Kaz is a "ranger guide" who roams the range riding horses
and wielding sabers. The sabers are necessary to fend off the "Statesmen" -- roving
hordes under the thrall of Lord Zirpola (David McLean). Zirpola captures Kaz and throws
him into a cell, where he meets Deneer (Claudia Jennings), who tells Kaz that a group of
mutants have abducted her daughter. Kaz and Deneer escape and set off in search of her
daughter as they dodge the Statesmen and their high-decibel motorcycles called "Death
Machines." Kaz is finally forced to participate in the "Death Sport" -- a mad free-for-all
inside a tunnel in which only one contestant can emerge alive.
Defcon 4
Category : Action/PA
Starring : Maury Chaykin, Kate Lynch, Tim Choate
Director : Paul Donovan
Year : 1985
Description
Three astronauts who were lost in space finally return to Earth, only to find that during their
absence the planet has been ravaged by nuclear war, and is rife with radiation. In order to
survive, the trio must fight for survival amongst flesh-eating mutants, gun-crazy maniacs,
and other unsavory, demented types. Meanwhile, a teenager who runs his own slave trade
operation is becoming drunk with power. The space travelers must use their survival
instincts to defeat the egomaniacal teen.
Domination Nation
Category : PA adult
Starring :
Director :
Year : 1997
Description :
It's the not-too-distant future, when women rule the world and their angry Alpha leader
Christy is looking for wild, lost men to hunt down and have her way with. The only problem
is, once they're spent, they're dead. Because this is post-Armageddon and men die once
they climax ... unless the beautiful scientist Ariana can stop the curse and save mankind.
Doom Runners
Category : Action/PA fanciful
Starring : Tim Curry, Lea Moreno, Bradley Pierce
Director : Brendan Maher
Year : 1997
Description
A post-apocalyptic sci-fi flick for kids, DOOM RUNNERS is about a group of kids who are
trying to find the last unpolluted place on Earth - New Eden. However, the Doom Troopers,
led by Dr. Kao (Curry), who talks a bit like Dr. Frank-N-Furter, want to get there first and
will do anything to stop the children.
Dragon Fury
Category : Action/PA ?
Starring : Robert Chapin, Richard Lynch, Judy Landers
Director : David Heavener
Year : 1995
Description
In a future blighted by plague, a warrior journeys back in time for a cure.
Dragon Fury 2
Category : Action/PA
Starring : Robert Chapin, Mike Norris
Director : Bryan Michael Stoller
Year : 1996
Description
In this futuristic action-adventure a lone female warrior battles against a gang of thugs
seeking a computer chip which would allow them to control the world. An ancient scientist,
hoping to help her, thaws out a long-frozen warrior to take up her fight, but not all goes
according to plan.
Endgame
Category : Action/PA regional?
Starring : Al Cliver, Moira Chen, George Eastman
Director : Joe D'Amato
Year : 1985
Description
This violent sci-fi actioner is set in an irradiated New York City a few years following a
terrible nuclear holocaust. Within the city, telepathically linked mutants abound, and people
entertain themselves by attending gladiator fights to the death. The story centers on a
group of mutants as they try to escape the brutal confines of the city.
Eraserhead
Category : Fantasy/Horror/PA fanciful
Starring : Jack Nance/Charlotte Stewart
Director : David Lynch
Year : 1977
Description :
Is it a nightmare or an actual view of a post-apocalyptic world? Set in an industrial town in
which giant machines are constantly working, spewing smoke, and making noise that is
inescapable, Henry Spencer lives in a building that, like all the others, appears to be
abandoned. The lights flicker on and off, he has bowls of water in his dresser drawers, and
for his only diversion he watches and listens to the Lady in the Radiator sing about finding
happiness in heaven. Henry has a girlfriend, Mary X, who has frequent spastic fits. Mary
gives birth to Henry's child, a frightening looking mutant, which leads to the injection of all
sorts of sexual imagery into the depressive and chaotic mix.
Escape from New York
Category : Action/PA feel
Starring : Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef
Director : John Carpenter
Year : 1981
Description
Another John Carpenter cult classic, ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK was one of the best
entries in the once popular post-apocalyptic genre which included ROAD WARRIOR and
THE TERMINATOR. In 1997, the island of Manhattan has been turned into the world's
largest maximum security prison, a place where the worst of humanity is sent to rot. The
U.S. Government finds itself in a major crisis when the president's plane crash lands in
New York only days before a vital peace summit between major warring nations is to take
place. The president survives the crash, but is taken hostage by the denizens of
Manhattan and held for ransom. Only war hero turned felon Snake Plissken can save the
day, and he is offered a simple deal for his work: save the president and live, fail to save
him and die. The one-eyed bandit sets to work, cutting a path of destruction to the
president that has to be seen to be believed. Kurt Russell creates the indelible character of
Snake Plissken as no other actor could have. Wisecracking and cool under the very worst
of pressures, Snake is the ultimate bad good guy. Often copied, but never duplicated,
ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK is full of the wit, energy and action that marks a John
Carpenter picture.
Future Hunters
Category : Action/PA fanciful
Starring : Robert Patrick, Linda Carol, Ed Crick
Director : Cirio H. Santiago
Year : 1989
Description
2025 A.D. A lone adventurer searches the post-nuclear wasteland for the most
devastating, godless artifact in history. When he touches it, he is transported back in time
to 1989 Los Angeles. Mortally wounded he requests a young couple to return the spear to
its sheath and end its reign of evil
Genesis II
Category: TV Movie/PA
Starring: Alex Cord
Director: John Lewellyn Moxey
Year: 1973
Description
On February 14, 1979, Dylan Hunt is appointed by NASA to guide research in the
"Ganymede Project," which was for the development of suspended animation for long
duration space flights. Dylan Hunt volunteered for the first human testing which was
conducted in a NASA research center housed inside a grotto, deep inside Carlsbad
Caverns. It was not known that a geologic fault existed over the area, and was completely
sealed off during a massive earthquake. Dylan Hunt, who had been placed in suspended
animation inside the Xenon pressure chamber remained undisturbed for more than 154
years.
Hardware
Category : Horror/PA
Starring : Dylan McDermott, Stacey Travis
Director : Richard Stanley
Year : 1990
Description
Music video director Richard Stanley made his feature debut with this apocalyptic, post-
industrial nightmare set in the distant future. Dylan McDermott stars as Moses "Hard Mo"'
Baxter, a washed-up ex-soldier who spends most of his time in "The Zone" -- a scorched,
ochre-colored desert littered with the radioactive debris of an unspecified war (or wars).
Mo's recent Zone foray with war-buddy Shades (Jon Lynch) turns up an interesting find --
a pile of droid parts he purchases from a spooky "Zone Tripper" (Carl McCoy, frontman for
goth-rock's Fields of the Nephilim), which he carts home to his reclusive artist girlfriend Jill
(Stacy Travis) to serve as raw material for her latest work. Unbeknownst to them, the
dismantled robot is the prototype of a controversial new battle-droid dubbed the Mark 13,
which is designed to reassemble itself from available materials if damaged in combat. In
short order, the Mark 13 proceeds to do just that, tapping into the power grid in Jill's
fortress-like apartment and targeting her for death.
Jeremiah
Category : PA
Starring : Luke Perry
Director :
year : 2002
Description:
In a post-apocalyptic future, a deadly virus has wiped out most of humanity. The only ones
who survived, was those who hadn't yet reached puberty. Now a decade has gone by, and
a man called Jeremiah (Luke Perry) is set on a quest to find a mysterious place his father
spoke of, a place called Valhalla.15 years after a virus wiped out everyone who had
passed puberty, the survivors are living on the scraps of the old world. Now they must
either continue the downward slide, or begin to rebuild the world, taking responsibility for
themselves and the world and each other.
Knights
Category : Action/PA
Starring : Kathy Long, Kris Kristofferson, Lance Henriksen
Director : Albert Pyun
Year : 1993
Description
A cyborg army roams the wasteland searching for the latest fuel source, human blood. A
female warrior and a cyborg try to stop them.
Le Dernier Combat
Category : Action/PA
Starring : Pierre Jolivet, Jean Bouise
Director : Luc Besson
Year : 1985
Description
Director Luc Besson's (THE FIFTH ELEMENT, LEON: THE PROFESSIONAL) first feature
tells the tale of a bleak post-nuclear war world where survival is a day-to-day struggle. One
man (known only as The Man) struggles to build an airplane so that he can fly about in
search of a mate. His goal is complicated by the fierce Brute (Jean Reno)-- but with help
from a mad old scientist, The Man may eventually rise above his oppressive surroundings
to find true love. Shot in black and white, with no dialogue to speak of, this unusual work
won numerous French Film Awards.
Logan's Run
Category : Thriller/PA
Starring : Michael York, Jenny Agutter
Director : Michael Anderson
Year : 1976
Description
If you can stifle the urge to laugh at its pastel unisex costumes and futuristic shopping-mall
décor, this extravagant science fiction film from 1976 is still visually fascinating and
provocatively entertaining. Set in the year 2274, when ecological disaster has driven
civilization to the protection of domed cities, the story revolves around a society that holds
a ceremonial death ritual for all citizens who reach the age of 30. In a diseaseless city
where free sex is encouraged and old age is virtually unknown, Logan (Michael York) is a
"sandman," one who enforces this radical method of population control (but he's about to
turn 30 and he doesn't want to die). Escaping from the domed city via a network of
underground passages, Logan is joined by another "runner" named Jessica (Jenny
Agutter), while his former sandman partner (Richard Jordan) is determined to terminate
Logan's rebellion. Using a variety of splendid matte paintings and miniatures, Logan's Run
earned a special Oscar for visual effects (images of a long-abandoned Washington, D.C.,
are particularly impressive), and in addition to fine performances by Jordan and Peter
Ustinov, the film features '70s poster babe Farrah Fawcett in a cheesy supporting role.
Jerry Goldsmith's semi-electronic score is still one of the prolific composer's best, and
Logan's Run remains an interesting example of '70s sci-fi that preceded Star Wars by less
than a year.
Logan’s Run
Category : TV Series/Sci-Fi/PA
Starring : Gregory Harrison, Heather Menzies, Donald Moffat, Randy Powell
Director : William F. Nolan
Year : 1977-1978
Description :
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Mad Max
Category : Action/PA
Starring : Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel, Tim Burns
Director : George Miller
Year : 1980
Description
The Road Warrior is already a classic, sans condescending genre distinctions like "sci-fi"
or "action." But the story of Mel Gibson's stately antihero begins in Mad Max, George
Miller's low-budget debut in which Max is a "Bronze" (cop) in an unspecified post
apocalyptic future with a buddy-partner and family. But unlike most films set in the
devastated future, Mad Max is especially notable because it is poised between our
industrialized world and total regression to medieval conditions. The scale tips towards
disintegration when the Glory Riders burn into town on their bikes like an over-amped
cadre of Brando's Wild Ones. Representing the active chaos that will eventually
overwhelm the dying vestiges of civil society, they take everything dear to Max, who will
exact due revenge. His flight into the same wilds that created the villains artfully sets up
the morally ambiguous character of the subsequent films.
Mindwarp
Category : Thriller/PA
Starring : Bruce Campbell, Angus Scrimm, Elizabeth Kent
Director : Steve Barnett
Year : 1991
Description
A rebellious woman is exiled from her enclosed community in a future post apocalyptic
world. Rescued by an outside survivor, both are soon captured by "Crawlers" and taken
underground where she learns something about her famous father that could cost her her
life.
Neon City
Category : Action/PA
Starring : Michael Ironside, Monte Markham, Lyle Alzado, Valerie Wildman
Director : Monte Markham
Year : 1992
Description
In the year 2053, the earth has been devastated by a military experiment gone awry. The
ozone layer is gone, radioactive clouds drift across the plains, and unpredictable, intense
bursts of sunlight called "brights" incinerate anyone caught outside. In these conditions, a
group of travelers are trying to get from Jericho to Neon City: A doctor, an old man, a
prostitute, a spoiled rich girl, an un-talented comedian, and a bounty hunter with his
valuable prisoner. Few, if any, of the passengers turn out to be what they initially appear.
New Eden
Category : Action/PA
Starring : Stephen Baldwin, Lisa Bonet, Tobin Bell
Director : Alan Metzger
Year : 1994
Description
An Ayn Rand-like story set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland where a peaceful engineer and
his family try to rebuild civilization while under constant attack by barbarians.
Omega Doom
Category : Action/PA
Starring : Rutger Hauer, Anna Katarina, Norbert Weisser
Director : Albert Pyun
Year : 1997
Description
While wandering through a post-apocalyptic wasteland, a picaresque cybernetic hero
happens upon a mini-civilization amidst the torched remains of a theme park. Warring
factions vie for control of the area's resources, but they both crumble under the tumultuous
assaults from the deadly interloper.
On the Beach
Category : Drama/PA
Starring : Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner
Director : Stanley Kramer
Year : 1959
Description
After the entire Northern Hemisphere is destroyed by a nuclear war, a group of survivors in
Australia prepare for their own inevitable demise. As a deadly cloud of radiation creeps
toward the continent, some survivors cling to hopes that life as they know it has continued
somewhere, hopes that are fed by the discovery of a mysterious, erratic radio signal
emanating from San Diego. Others, such as Astaire's sardonic, race-car driving physicist
and Gardner's world-weary, tippling party girl, throw their energies into squeezing the last
drops from their lives. A grim, unflinching clarion call for sanity that inches along at a
maddeningly deliberate and suspenseful pace. Based on the novel by Nevil Shute.
Academy Award Nominations: 2, Best Editing (Frederic Knudtson) and Best Score (Ernest
Gold).
Passion to Kill, A
Category : Fantasy/Sci-Fi/PA?
Starring : Ted Newsom/Bryan Moore
Director : Ron Ford
Year : 1999
Description
In a post-apocalyptic future, a scientist sends his look-alike son into the past, our present,
to change our future (their present). He is ordered to impregnate a certain woman in order
to save civilization. He and the woman in turn are hunted down by a six-foot tall red-
headed, large-breasted robot in high heels. A big-breasted blonde and a hood team up
with the woman to battle the red-headed robot, which meets her end by being knocked into
a swimming pool and turning into a rubber skeleton. Of course, it all ends happily ever
after.
Planet Earth
Category: TV Movie/Post-Apocalyptic
Starring: John Saxon
Director: Marc Daniels
Year: 1974
Description
The PAX team is ambushed by the Kreeg while on a mission where one of their members
is gravely wounded. The only one who can do the delicate surgery is Dr. Jonathan Connor,
missing for a year. The rest of the team members attempt to find the Dr. and are captured
by the Women of Ruth and eventually find and rescue the good Dr. who returns to perform
the surgery.
Postman, The
Category : Drama/PA
Starring : Kevin Costner, Will Patton, Larenz Tate
Director : Kevin Costner
Year : 1997
Description
In a post-apocalyptic, totally anarchic America, circa 2013, a defector from the ranks of
murderous despot General Bethlehem masquerades as a representative of the good old
U.S. Postal Service. But his ruse so delights the weary, oppressed people he meets that it
indeed becomes real--and he finds himself championing their rights and the American
Way. Adapted from the novel by David Brin.
Radioactive Dreams
Category : Action/PA?
Starring : John Stockwell, Michael Dudikoff
Director : Albert Pyun
Year : 1986
Description
Having lived in a bomb shelter for 15 years after a nuclear explosion, two daring young
men emerge into the light of day for the first time in search of adventure.
Raiders of the Sun
Category : Action/PA
Starring : Richard Norton, Rick Dean, Brigitta Stenberg
Director : Cirio H. Santiago
Year : 1992
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When a nearly apocalyptic biological spill decimates most of the Earth's population, a one-
man army takes it upon himself to create order out of the chaos.
Reign of Fire
Category : Action/PA
Starring : Christian Bale, Matthew McConaughey
Director : Rob Bowman
Year : 2002
Description
The Road Warrior meets Dragonslayer in the briskly entertaining post-apocalyptic action
thriller Reign of Fire. Reign of Fire exists primarily to give us a bigger and better dragon
than the Vermithrax Pejorative of 1981's classic Dragonslayer, and in that regard, the
special effects are mightily impressive; the reptilian fire-breathers are stupendously
convincing. While the earlier film offers a richer, more whimsical medieval adventure,
Reign of Fire is a fast-moving tale of man versus dragon that takes place in the charred
England of 2020, after Earth has been scorched by rapidly multiplying dragons and the
aftermath of a futile nuclear counterstrike. Mixing high-tech gadgetry with primitive
survivalism, X-Files alumnus Rob Bowman makes the most of his midlevel budget,
establishing a lavish castle base for the rugged, adversarial teaming of Christian Bale and
Matthew McConaughey as dragonslayers on the brink of extinction. With a steady supply
of crowd-pleasing highlights, Reign of Fire is a pyrotechnical treat.
Return to Frogtown
Category : Action/PA fanciful
Starring : Lou Ferrigno, Charles Napier, Brion James
Director : Donald Jackson
Year : 1994
Description
This bargain-basement budgeted sci-fi horror movie pays a kind of tribute to 1930s sci-fi
serials such as "King of the Rocket Men." It is set just after the Frog Wars of the preceding
film Hell Comes to Frogtown (1988). Following that terrible battle, the Froggie mutants
were placed on the special Frogtown Mutant Reservation. The story begins as the leader
of Frogtown, Zar abducts Professor Tanzer and forces him to perfect a terrible serum that
will turn the Earth's remaining population into croaking, fly-eating amphibians. Zar then
sends out an android version of Commander Toady (a character who died in the first film)
to bring in some subjects to test. Toady's first catch is the muscle-bound Rocket Ranger
Jones who is injected by the lovely Nurse Cloris. To save Jones from a terrible fate, fellow
rocketeers send out the courageous Ranger Sam Hell to save them.
Sacrifice, The
Category : Drama/PA fanciful
Starring : Erland Josephson, Susan Fleetwood
Director : Andrei Tarkovsky
Year : 1986
Description
Set in Sweden, Andrei Tarkovsky's last film follows the travails of wealthy patriarch
Alexander (Erland Josephson), a former actor and critic who lives in a remote home on the
edge of the Baltic Sea. One year on his birthday, a sudden television announcement
interrupts the celebration with news of a nuclear holocaust. His family and guests suffer
through violent fits of hysteria and emotional turmoil in the ensuing days, but the previously
troubled Alexander finds a clearness of mind when he makes a pact with God--offering
himself as a sacrifice in order to redeem the fallen earth for his cherished son. Supremely
poetic, THE SACRIFICE is filled with achingly beautiful images, expertly shot by Ingmar
Bergman's trusted cinematographer Sven Nykvist. As Alexander goes from self-contented
ease to crippling animal fear and existential anguish and finally to spiritual abandon, the
troubled journey is illustrated with a haunting succession of images, tableaus, objects,
dreams, and gestures--all sewn together in a seamlessly elliptical vision. As in all of
Tarkovsky's haunting and mystical films, the characters are forced to come to terms with
their own physical and spiritual existence, with redemption coming through faith--in this
case, Alexander's faith in his love for his young son.
Shepherd
Category : Sci-Fi/PA
Starring : C. Thomas Howell/Roddy Piper
Director : Peter Hayman
Year : 1999
Description
In a post-apocalyptic underground society ruled by rival religious cults, Dakota is working
as an assassin, or "Shepherd" for The Church of Miles. He has been given an assignment
to take out a female Shepherd from a rival cult, but balks at completing the task when he
sees that his target has a young child. The two assassins and the child all find themselves
being hunted down by both cults, and so decided to stick together as they run for their
lives. Along the way, they encounter several other strange religious compounds, as well as
random thugs living on the outskirts of society.
The Stand
Category : TV Movie mini-series/PA
Starring :
Director :
Year :
Description :
Based on the Stephen King novel of the same name. The story revolves around a
mismatch collection of survivors who are trying to rebuild some semblance of their lives
while battling the forces of evil.
Starlight
Category : Drama/PA
Starring : Rae Dawn Chong, Billy Wirth, Willie Nelson
Director : Jonathan Kay
Year : 1997
Description
A lovely alien envoy arrives on a post-apocalyptic Earth with a mission: find and bring back
a half-human, half-alien hybrid who possesses a gene necessary for her planet's survival.
Steel Dawn
Category : Action/PA
Starring : Patrick Swayze, Lisa Niemi, Anthony Zerbe
Director : Lance Hool
Year : 1987
Description
They call him Nomad - a man without a home, without a past - a new breed of warrior
trained in the arts of swordsmanship and hand-to-hand combat, roaming the vast desert
wastelands in a post-nuclear age - in a time when laws are useless and water is more
precious than blood. Patrick Swayze stars with wife Lisa Niemi, with help from many
members of the Hool family.
Steel Frontier
Category : Action/PA
Starring : Bo Svenson, Joe Lara, Jim Cody Williams
Director : Paul G. Volk, Jacobsen Hart
Year : 1994
Description
In a post-apocalyptic world ruled by thugs, a lone cowboy arrives to liberate a small town.
Stryker
Category : Action/PA
Starring : Steve Sandor, Andrea Savio, William Ostrander
Director : Cirio H. Santiago
Year : 1983
Description
The time is post World War III and there are no nations, only bands of maurauding men in
search of the most precious commodity of all, water. In the midst of the cut-throat tactics of
the water marauders there is a band of women who have discovered a water source.
Survivor :
Category : Action/PA
Starring : Chip Mayer, Sue Kiel, Richard Moll
Director : Michael Shackleton
Year : 1986
Description
An astronaut is on a routine mission in space when he sees the beginning and the end of
WW III. Eventually he must return to Earth, and when he does, he finds it populated by
ruthless barbarians.
Tank Girl
Category : Action/PA
Starring : Lori Petty, Ice-T, Malcolm McDowell
Director : Rachel Talalay
Year : 1995
Description
In the year 2033, the world's water supply is controlled by Kesslee, a maniacal dictator
who presides over the Water & Power company. Rebecca, a tough, punk water poacher,
struggles alongside her comrades to deliver the valuable resource to parched persons
around the globe. But when she's captured by Kesslee, he makes her work as one of his
human automatons in the W & P mines. Her fate goes from bad to worse when Kesslee
makes her a proposition: She can go free if she agrees to exterminate the ravenous
Rippers--half-man, half-kangaroo beasts. But before she's forced to answer, along comes
Jet Girl, who rescues Rebecca from Kesslee's clutches. Now these two spunky chicks will
do whatever it takes to destroy Kesslee and hydrate the desert planet.
Terminator, The
Category : Action/PA feel
Starring : Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton
Director : James Cameron
Year : 1984
Description
James Cameron's THE TERMINATOR is one of the tightest, tensest sci-fi films ever made
and a landmark in the genre. In the year 2029, battles rage between the superintelligent
machines that rule the world and the last vestiges of humanity. In late-20th-century Los
Angeles, Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) suddenly finds herself stalked by an unstoppable
killing machine--a Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger) sent from the future to kill her and
her unconceived son, John Connor, the future leader of the human resistance. Sarah can
rely only on Reese (Michael Biehn), a soldier sent from the future to protect her from the
seemingly indestructible Terminator and save humanity. This low-budget masterpiece was
the breakthrough film for director Cameron, who weds special effects, thrills, and
understated romance to create one of the finest action films of the 1980s, which spawned
many imitations but few equals. Science fiction author Harlan Ellison sued over the film's
similarities to his own works, especially the OUTER LIMITS episode "Demon with a Glass
Hand," and won acknowledgement in the film's credits. Schwarzenegger will forever be
known as the relentless Terminator, a heartless killing machine who returns (in a kinder,
gentler form) in 1991's TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY.
Threads
Category : Drama/PA
Starring : Karen Meagher, Rita May, David Brierly
Director : Mick Jackson
Year : 1985
Description
This powerful film depicts the aftermath of the most heinous destruction imaginable -
global thermonuclear war. A realistic and chilling portrayal.
-Season 1 (1980-1981)
Wizard War
Fortress Of Fear
Island Of The Body Snatchers
City Of Evil
Last Train To Doomsday
Masters Of The Stolen Sunsword
Trial By Terror
Prophecy Of Peril
Toad Warrior
Category : Action/PA fanciful
Starring : Scott Shaw, Joe Estevez, Jill Kelly
Director : Donald G. Jackson
Year : 1996
Description
Max Hell is the lone samurai on the trail of the Frog Serum which was unleashed to turn all
of humanity into toads. I think this is the 3rd in the Frog Town series of movies.
Vampire Hunter D
Category : Anime Horror/PA fanciful
Starring : ?
Director : Toyoo Ashida
Year : 1985 (1988 English)
Description :
Society looks like some high tech version of the middle ages. Creatures of darkness
terrorize the land and lurk in the shadows. a girl named Dorris and her little brother Dan
live in the country where they raise livestock. One day, when Dorris was fending off the
local wildlife she encounters Count Magnus Lee (a vampire), and he bites her. Dorris gets
bitten, therefore she requires the services of a vampire hunter.
Wasteland Days
Category : PA
Starring :
Director :
Year :
Description
After Earth is ravaged by the Weapons of the Apocalypse, humans live in scattered
settlements, and the wasteland between is only crossed by Walkers, chivalrous couriers
carrying messages or deliveries. Now a rookie Walker named Zen must carry a mysterious
object - the last television on Earth - to the Lost City of Altair; but the evil Doctor Ferdinand
would use it to destroy Altair and conquer Earth with his mutant armies.
Water World
Category : Action/PA
Starring : Kevin Costner, Dennis Hopper
Director : Kevin Reynolds
Year : 1995
Description
In a flooded future Earth, people cling to man-made floating islands for survival. When a
tyrannical madman driving a supertanker over the world in search of "dry land" invades
one of these islands a mysterious wanderer named the "Mariner" rescues a woman and
her adopted daughter from the slaughter and they embark on a quest that could save
mankind. Academy Award Nomination: Best Sound.
Wizards
Category : Animation/PA fanciful
Starring : Mark Hamill, Richard Romanus, Bob Holt
Director : Ralph Bakshi
Year : 1977
Description
This uniquely 1970s blend of swords, sorcery, science fiction, kung-fu, fascism, and
nuclear holocaust was director Ralph Bakshi's first venture into fantasy after his grim urban
epics STREETFIGHT and HEAVY TRAFFIC. In a post apocalyptic future that appears as
a blend of World War II Europe and J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, a pint-size wizard
named Avatar (Bob Holt, sounding like Peter Falk) must save the world from a band of
fascist mutants controlled by his evil twin brother, Blackwolf (Steve Gravers), who likes to
confuse enemy armies by projecting films of Adolf Hitler speeches during attacks. Painted
live-action footage of advancing Nazi armies contrasts with Saturday-morning-cartoon-
style animation of fairies and elves as Avatar travels through various magical and
radioactive realms on his quest. Aiding him are a sexually promiscuous fairy queen (Jesse
Wells), a hot-blooded warrior elf (Mark Hamill, fresh from his role in STAR WARS) and
Peace (David Proval), a misunderstood robot rebelling against his Blackwolf-controlled
programming. A bizarre and psychedelic meditation on magic vs. technology, this cult film
still finds an audience on college campuses and will prove quite rewarding to viewers in
the right frame of mind.
Zardoz
Category : Action/PA
Starring : Sean Connery, Charlotte Rampling
Director : John Boorman
Year : 1974
Description
When Sean Connery abandoned the James Bond series to seek out new challenges, he
turned to director John Boorman's sci-fi project, ZARDOZ. Connery stars as Zed, one of a
carefully bred race of supervisors, the Exterminators, who oversee the agricultural labor of
the neanderthal Brutals, since in 2293, with most of the Earth's surface off-limits as a
polluted Outlands, industrial society has been abandoned. All worship Zardoz, a huge
flying stone head who makes periodic visits to Earth to pick up grain consignments and
issue bizarre statements involving the male anatomy through the voice of Arthur Frayn
(Niall Buggy). An increasingly skeptical Zed decides to stow away inside the head, which
deposits him in the Vortex, a commune of scientists and intellectuals who are ruled by the
ever-youthful and asexual Eternals. They capture Zed, allowing geneticist May (Sara
Kestleman) to use him as a research subject for a limited period, but he begins to arouse
more than scientific curiosity in the commune's supposedly nonsexual female population.