Director: L.Q. Jones
Writer: L.Q. Jones and Wayne Cruseturner based on a story by Harlan Ellison
Release Year: 1975
Dog Day After-Apocalypse
In a post-nuke setting, a young Don Johnson (!) and his talking dog (!!!) are roaming the wastelands, in search for food and women. Just when you thought you’ve seen it all in this dry & dusty genre, A Boy and his Dog come along…
Director: Thomas Smugala
Writer: James Dean Schulte & Thomas Smugala
Release Year: 2005
When the going gets tough the tough get a beauty queen.
Society goes down the tubes and only former beauty queen Amber Bathory (Beverly Hynds) has the sheer force of will needed to keep things going in her small, frigid community. She makes great efforts to make a show of helping out the less fortunate, many of whom follow her because she’s attractive, but really, she’s a monster. You see, like her namesake Elizabeth Báthory, Amber has a nasty habit of bathing in the blood of her serving girls to keep her youth. Things start to go wrong when her servants, sick of her increasing delusional megalomania decide that it might be time to retire her….
With genre movies like Dog Soldiers and The Descent, writer/director Neil Marshall had already built up a solid reputation amongst worldwide horror audiences. In 2008, Marshall was invited to the 26th Brussels Fantastic Film Festival to present his latest film, the post-apocalyptic Doomsday.
Director: Phil Tucker
Writer: Wyott Ordung
Release Year: 1953
At what point on the graph do ‘must’ and ‘cannot’ meet?
Little Johnny (Gregory Moffett) and his ‘family’ have to battle with one of the least convincing alien invaders of all time … the ROBOT MONSTER! The ROBOT MONSTER! invades the Earth and destroys almost all life with his CALCINATOR DEATH RAY! – which uses stock footage of fighting dinosaurs from One Million B.C. among others – leaving only Johnny and his family as well as some off-camera people who die later in another stock footage extravaganza. This collection of people are humanity’s last hope to avoid extinction, but really if that’s the best Earth has to look forward to they might as well just up and die…..
Director: Ubaldo Ragona & Sidney Salkow
Writer: Richard Matheson (novel “I Am Legend”) & William F. Leicester
Release Year: 1964
Alive among the lifeless… alone among the crawling creatures of evil that make the night hideous with their inhuman craving!
An adaptation of the novel I Am Legend about a man trying to survive in a post-apocalyptic world, defending his home against hordes of zombie-vampires every night. There are many adaptations of this book and this is considered by many the best (the people with taste), which is not that surprising since it has Vincent Price instead of Will freakin’ Smith or Charlton cold dead hands Heston. And because the mood of the movie set by the desperation and loneliness of Morgan ofcourse. Also notice the similarities with Night of the Living Dead, released 4 years later.
Director: Enzo G. Castellari
Writers: Tito Carpi, Enzo G. Castellari & Antonio Visone
Release Year: 1982
Italian title: I Nuovi Barbari
Fred Williamson and the Templars of Doom
Italian Post-Apocalyptic Mayhem… Oh, how those words sound like music to my ears. Undisputed champions, as they are, in ripping off every possible succesful foreign genre known to mankind, Italians can truly claim the title of being the uncrowned kings of 80′s Post-Nuke sci-fi/action fodder. Once again the end of the world is nigh, and these warriors of the Italian wastelands perfectly illustrate just how insane things can get…
Director: Boris Sagal
Writer: John William Corrington & Joyce Hooper Corrington based on I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
Release Year: 1971
Take your stinking hands off me, you damned dirty family!
Robert Neville (Charlton Heston) – the lone surviving human after a pandemic – fights madness in a deserted the Los Angeles. In addition to the scourge that is loneliness, he has to face the survivors who are horribly mutated by the disease. Ironically, the reason Neville survived unscathed, is because he was a scientist working to cure the plague when an accident forced him to try the experimental cure on himself….
Director: Geoff Murphy
Writers: Bill Baer, Bruno Lawrence & Sam Pillsbury (based on a novel by Graig Harrison)
Release year: 1985
Condemned to live
Zac Hobson wakes up to what could have been a normal day. But it’s not. His life will never be the same as he finds out he’s the only person left on this earth. What happened and where have all the people gone?
Director: Ranald MacDougall
Writer: Ranald MacDougall, based on a story by Ferdinand Reyher and a novel by M.P. Shiel
Release year: 1959
Three’s always a crowd!
Ralph Burton isn’t exactly having a good day. First, the mine he’s working in collapses. And when he finally manages to crawl his way out to freedom, he finds himself to be the last man on the face of this earth…
Director: Nazim Tulyakhozayev
Writer: Nazim Tulyakhozayev, based on a story by Ray Bradbury and inspired by a Sarah Teasdale poem
Release year: 1984
Perplexing Russian short
The year is 2026. Nuclear devestation has happened. In one house, tireless robots and absurd machinery once programmed by humans, continue to perform their monotonous tasks…
