6/17/2023 0 Comments Zombie biker 2017![]() While J Blakeson’s “ The 5th Wave” suffers from a rushed and clumsy plot, stiff acting from the support characters, and the unbelievable concept that apocalypse survivors could have clean hair, it is noteworthy as the only “Young Adult” sci-fi/post-apocalypse film on this list. Winstead’s performance as a highly intelligent, resourceful, and resilient protagonist is thrilling to watch, right up to the movie’s surprising and dramatic conclusion.Īliens have a step-by-step strategy for making humans extinct, and it involves turning them on each other. Claustrophobic and filled with trickery, this film forces the viewer contemplate the dilemma of being stuck with a potentially dangerous person in a world potentially filled with danger. Without having clear evidence of the wasteland above her, Michelle starts to suspect that Howard is actually a lying, delusional serial killer, and that she and Emmet are his next victims. Also present is Emmet ( John Gallagher), an employee of Howard’s. Howard’s bunker is an apparent safe haven, equipped with an air filtration system, a generator, and food supplies. After a car accident, Michelle ( Mary Elizabeth Winstead) wakes up in a windowless, cellar-like room with Howard ( John Goodman), who claims to have saved her from an attack on Earth that has left the air lethally contaminated. Dan Trachtenberg’s pseudo-sequel to the 2008 film “ Cloverfield” mixes the post-apocalypse genre with psychology and the terror of paranoia. When the world goes to hell, you definitely should never trust the “kindness” of strangers. “10 Cloverfield Lane” will have you guessing what is real and who the real villain is. Like a first-person-shooter video game, the viewer gets uncomfortably close to the drama, violence, and difficult decisions that Lauren has to make in order to save her daughter. The movie’s most interesting aspect has to do with its filming style, which is shot from the perspectives of the characters, who all have cameras built into their helmets. ![]() What they find out there is (predictably) carnage and mayhem, the streets filled with “Stage 5” infected people who are able to run and manipulate objects as weapons. Set in Los Angeles, Lauren Chase ( Rachel Nichols) is a doctor who is sent on a mission to retrieve a lost medical unit. Pandemicĭirected by John Suits, “ Pandemic” gives you front-row seats to the zombie apocalypse. “Pandemic” is a first-person-shooter survival story with close-up danger and gore. Top: The post-apocalyptic world of “Dust” is a somberly beautiful one. Many of them are teeming with zombies, and all of them explore how human morality would shift dramatically in the dead new world. Zombies have been overwhelmingly popular, which speaks to our fears concerning overpopulation and epidemics.īelow is a list of 10 movies from 2016 and forthcoming in 2017 that examine the apocalypse and post-apocalyptic world, be it through disease, disaster, or invasion. ![]() From the Book of Revelation, to Y2K, to the supposed end of the Mayan calendar in 2012, it is fair to say that people have long been fascinated by the “end of the world.” This is part of our linear, fatalistic, religious, and/or increasingly nihilistic thinking: If everything had a beginning, then everything has to end, right?Īs Hyong-jun Moon argues in “The Post-Apocalyptic Turn,” our obsession with worldwide calamity arises from “urgent socio-political questions such as danger of globalization, effect of neoliberal capitalist hegemony, ecological disasters, fragility of human civilization, and so on.” 1 Not surprisingly, these questions manifest themselves in contemporary horror, sci-fi, and thriller movies.
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