Many people know firsthand the situation in the spirit of “barn burned, house burned”. That’s why in the off-season we escape not with romantic comedies with a happy ending, but with dark stories about ghouls and other evil spirits. And this is understandable – why look at people who roll like cheese in butter and do not know any worries? After all, we complain about life in order to cry with our friends, not to make fun of ourselves and to learn with them how wonderful everything is. Therefore, the best medicine against depression is dark movies.
If the world is falling apart, let everyone suffer, right? Hence our fall marathons of watching the Twilight Saga, Scandinavian detective stories, and… end-of-the-world movies. When global changes occur that we’re not prepared for, we want to curl up and get over it.
We found 10 excellent new movies about the apocalypse, where everything is so bad that every problem seems solvable after watching them.
“Furiosa: The Mad Max Chronicles”, dir. George Miller (2024)
A dieselpunk classic about surviving the apocalypse. The new film in the series tells the story of the childhood and youth of Furiosa, a wasteland warrior played on screen by Anya Taylor-Joy. In the story, a girl is kidnapped by members of the Horde of biker Dementus (Chris Hemsworth) in order to use her to find the land of plenty, the Green Land of a Thousand Mothers. After killing her mother, he takes Furiosa hostage and goes to the Citadel to organize a rebellion against the village leader known as Immortan Joe (Lachey Hume). On this journey, Furiosa will meet her colleague and fall in love with Jack (Tony Burke). They come together not only to confront their enemies, but also to save innocent people.
“Flood”, dir. Mahalia Belo (2023)
A disaster movie about a water apocalypse, starring Killing Eve star Jodie Comer. The main character, a heavily pregnant woman, almost dies in a flood – it’s raining non-stop in London, so a critical water level threatens to kill millions of residents. They manage to save her, and she safely gives birth to a son, who she names Zeb. Vast areas are flooded, the country is on the verge of famine. The husband persuades his lover to go with her son to a commune where only one parent and child are accepted. Will they be able to achieve their goal?
“Leave the World Behind” is Sam Esmail (2023)
A post-apocalyptic thriller starring Julia Roberts, Mahershala Ali, and Ethan Hawke. In the story, a family goes out of town for a weekend of isolation. But instead of relaxation, they are met with a series of strange events: from WiFi and power outages to animal migrations, drone strikes, messages about radiation, and leaflets falling from the sky in Farsi, Korean, and Chinese. When the owner of the house arrives with her adult daughter, there is no doubt that something terrible has happened. Now they must team up to get to the nearest shelter.
“The Age of Survival”, dir. Kristina Buozhite, Bruno Samper (2022)
As a result of an environmental catastrophe, mutants rule the world, and now a select few of humanity hide behind the walls of the castle, while the rest are forced to fight desperately for survival. Viruses and organisms created by geneticists have infiltrated the animals and most edible plants that have been wiped out in the wild. 13-year-old Vesper (Raffiella Chapman) lives with her paralyzed father and adapts to her new reality by experimenting with growing plants. She dreams of becoming a bioengineer and saving people, and one day, she finds such an opportunity when Vesper rescues a stranger from the castle who survived a shipwreck.
“Finch”, dir. Miguel Sapochnik (2021)
Perhaps the most touching and tearful story about friendship between a man and a dog. And probably no one except Tom Hanks could show such tenderness to the tailed one. In the story, the hero of the story, robot engineer Finch, is terminally ill with radiation. After the solar flare, a global catastrophe occurred: hurricanes and dust storms rage on Earth, and there is no food during the day – the few survivors are engaged in robbery and murder. Because of the radiation, you can only go outside in a spacesuit, and you have to spend most of the day in a shelter. The only person who brings joy to Finch’s free time is the Irish terrier Goodyear. His owner cannot stand the thought of what will happen to his friend when he dies, so he decides to create an android Jeff who will look after him, based on the three laws of robotics. When their shelter is destroyed, Finch and his friends set off to find a new home.
“Don’t Look Up”, dir. Adam McKay (2021)
A witty apocalyptic satire with an impressive star cast. An astronomy grad student named Kate (Jennifer Lawrence) discovers a previously unknown comet. Her professor Randall (Leonardo DiCaprio) calculates the orbit and discovers that the comet will hit Earth in six months. NASA experts confirm their words, but US President Jane Orlin (Meryl Streep) is in no rush to inform the public so as not to cause panic. Later, the astronomers appear on a morning talk show with host Bree Avanti (Cate Blanchett), who turns their remarks into jokes, concerned only with viewer ratings. Can the scientists convince the authorities and save humanity, or will they just accept the inevitable?
“A Quiet Place 2”, dir. John Krasinski (2021)
The sequel, A Quiet Place, is set approximately one year after the sonic monsters have invaded Earth. After fending off an attack by the creatures in their own home, Emmett (Cillian Murphy) and Evelyn (Emily Blunt) and their children are forced to find new shelter. After intercepting a radio signal, they head to the location of a supposed colony of survivors.
“Resident Evil: Raccoon City”, dir. Johannes Roberts (2021)
A reboot of the legendary zombie apocalypse series, based on the first two parts of the horror shooter. The film takes place in 1998, when Claire Redfield (Kaya Scodelario) returns to her hometown of Raccoon City, which she ran away from as a child. After the death of her parents, she and her brother grew up in an orphanage sponsored by the Umbrella corporation. Claire realizes that something has infected the small population of the abandoned town, but her police brother appears healthy. Suddenly, the authorities blockade the city, and now she, along with a team of police officers, will have to face something completely terrible.
“Greenland”, dir. Rick Roman Waugh (2020)
This time, Gerard Butler’s hero does not save the world, but only his family. The fall of comet fragments causes global changes in the planet’s ecosystem. And now an immigrant named John from Atlanta must take his wife Allison and son through a panic-stricken country to Greenland, where a refuge has existed since the war.
“The Chronicles of Predatory Cities”, ed. Christian Rivers (2018)
A thousand years have passed since a global cataclysm, and now the remnants of humanity live in bustling Mega-Cities, moving on giant “caterpillars” and ravaging smaller cities for resources. Desperate masked girl Esther (Hera Hilmarsdottir) plans to kill Valentine (Hugo Weaving), the head of the Historians’ Guild, but standing in her way is a young museum apprentice and down-home Londoner Tom (Robert Sheehan), who is searching for lost technology.
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Source: People Talk
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