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I'm looking to build a list of post-apocalyptic or dark future films that were made in the late Cold War era, roughly 1970 or so to 1990. I already have a long potential list, but I have not seen them all and would like to know how well they fit what I'm looking for. What I want more of is the films about dealing with the situation after the collapse, or with a dystopian society in which people/gangs may have to fight for survival. What's also good is if there is some attempt to improve things, or some seed of hope that is being improved. I'm not really interested in the films that portray the collapse itself so much. I don't care too much what genre or tone it has, although if it's a highly elegiac film in which most of the world's population has disappeared, I might keep it off the list. Here is my list so far (I may update as I get suggestions). The ones with a * I have seen. The ? is for those I'm pretty sure fit but have not seen : *Damnation Alley (1977) *Escape From New York (1981) *Battletruck (1982) *Mad Max (1979) *[Mad Max 2] The Road Warrior (1981) *Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) *Warrior of the Lost World/Mad Rider/Il giustiziere della terra perduta/Sad Max (1983) *No Blade of Grass (1970) *City Limits (1984) *Land of Doom (1986) *Fist of the North Star (1986) The Aftermath (1982) Warriors of the Wasteland/The New Barbarians/I nuovi barbari (1983) The Ultimate Warrior (1975) Def-Con 4 (1985) Ravagers (1979) Survival Zone (1983) 1990: The Bronx Warriors/1990: I guerrieri del Bronx (1982) Exterminators of the Year 3000/Il giustiziere della strada (1983) Rats: Night of Terror/Rats - Notte di terrore (1984) Cherry 2000 (1987) World Gone Wild (1987) Mindwarp 1991) Hell Comes to Frogtown (1988) Dead Man’s Letters/Pisma myortvogo cheloveka (1986) Prayer of the Rollerboys (1990) Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds (1988) Turkey Shoot (1982) Sons of Steel (1988) Dune Warriors (1990) Raiders of the Sun (1992) ?Solarbabies (1986) ?Stryker(1983) ?In the Year 2889 (1969) ?Steel Dawn (1987) ?2019: After the Fall of New York/ 2019 - Dopo la caduta di New York (1983) 2020 Texas Gladiators/2020 Freedom Fighters/Anno 2020 - I gladiatori del futuro (1983) These I consider more questionable, either because the setting is less appropriate, or the subject matter, or because I just don't know enough about them (again, * means I have seen it): *The Warriors (1979) *Death Race 2000 (1975) *A Boy and His Dog (1975) *The Last Chase (1981) *Surf Nazis Must Die (1987) *Zardoz (1974) *The Last Battle/Le Dernier Combat (1983) *The Omega Man (1971) Deathsport (1978) Hardware (1990) A Visitor to a Museum/Posetitel muzeya(1989) On the Silver Globe/Na srebrnym globie (1988) Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em (1988) Incident at Raven's Gate/Encounter at Raven's Gate (1988) The Chain Reaction (1980) ?The Final Executioner/L’ultimo guerriero (1984) ?Wired to Kill (1986) ?The Bed Sitting Room (1969) ?Rush (1983) ?A Man Called Rage/Rage - Fuoco incrociato (1984) ?Endgame [ Bronx lotta finale ] (1983) ?Memoirs of a Survivor (1981) ?Burst City/Bakuretsu toshi (1983) ?Grey: Digital Target ?Where Have All the People Gone? (1974) ?The Rollar Blade Seven (1991) ?Glen and Randa (1971) ?Interzone (1989) ?Music of the Spheres (1984) ?Radioactive Dreams (1985) ?Testament (1983) ?Morning Patrol/Proini peripolos (1987) ?The Hamburg Syndrome/Die Hamburger Krankheit (1979) ?Malevil (1981) ?O-Bi, O-Ba [The End of Civilization]/[Koniec cywilizacji](1985) ?Black Moon (1975) If you've seen these, let me know which you think would fit my list. Or if you know any others, suggest them. Kangra fucked around with this message at 18:13 on Oct 5, 2020 |
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Its been a while since i've seen it but A Boy and His Dog would certainly fit. It's not a particularly good movie though and it does lack the seed of hope theme you're looking for.
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Oct 3, 2020 00:46
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Dead Man's Letters would certainly fit, along with the director's other film A Visitor to a Museum. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHUOXCZFBBE
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Oct 3, 2020 04:39
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I think Andrzej Żuławski's On the Silver Globe probably qualifies even though you might argue that it's not technically 'post apocalyptic'
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Oct 3, 2020 05:03
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banned from Starbucks posted:Its been a while since i've seen it but A Boy and His Dog would certainly fit. It's not a particularly good movie though and it does lack the seed of hope theme you're looking for. 100% A Boy and His Dog fits. They mention the Big Bang and it’s deffo post apocalyptic. I like it but it ain’t for everyone. Cherry2000 also fits and was free on Amazon a while ago. Radioactive Dreams really fits and is free on YouTube. Cheesy fun as two kids raised in a bunker by 50s gangsters go out and explore the world after the pocsaclypse World Gone Wild. gently caress....old school forgotten movie. Definitely fits. Now I want to find it again. Adam freakin Ant New stuff Dead End Drive In - it’s borderline as no mushroom clouds but society collapses and they send teenagers to a concentration camp. It’s Australian so still feels very post apocalyptic. Hardware- British- you know 2000AD? Judge Dredd and not the cheesy Sly Stallone 90s one? Well this is the same world. Smaller scale about somebody finding out why you don’t bring things from the Cursed Earth into your home. Post apoc but different. From the 1990 on the dot. Borderline as it was released in 1992 but filmed mostly in 1990. Movie called Mindwarp.Bruce Campbell, Angus Scrimm, Cannibals, mutants, vault dwellers and Fangoria produced.It’s 80s tastic no matter the release date. Discounted by the release and production date but Six String Samurai. Watch it. B movie throwback that is very enjoyable in spite of an annoying kid. I’ve actually seen a couple more 80s Italian and Spanish post apocalyptic movies but gently caress if I remember at the moment. That Night of theTerror/ Ratto movie sucks terribly hard. Edit: bugger me.:.. Hell Comes to Frogtown. Not serious but it fits. Good to put in the mix DogsInSpace! fucked around with this message at 05:25 on Oct 3, 2020 |
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Oct 3, 2020 05:18
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Nroo posted:Dead Man's Letters would certainly fit, along with the director's other film A Visitor to a Museum. Double posting to say watch this - very good film
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Oct 3, 2020 05:24
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Thanks for the suggestions so far. Yeah, it doesn't have to be necessarily post-apocalyptic, anything that shows a societal in breakdown or rebuilding is what I'm after. As long as it's not setting up a world too far afield from our own, or is focused only on the basics with a realistic survival scenario (which is why I don't know about something like Testament -- I thing it's maybe being just that). So something like No Blade of Grass is partly that but it's heightened enough to fit for me. I'm also perfectly fine with just having discussion/suggestions on PA/dark future/dystopian films, although I'll still be paring my list to the period and criteria I'm going for.
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Oct 3, 2020 09:20
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The Omega Man (1971) with Charlton Heston. He plays chess with himself, kills zombies, and dies in a fountain, from what I recall. What a piece of crap.
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Oct 5, 2020 07:12
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let's get fucken Australian in here, cunts Smoke 'Em If You've Got 'Em (1988) https://letterboxd.com/film/smoke-em-if-you-got-em/ Dead End Drive-In (1986) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090915/ Turkey Shoot (1982) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082338 Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Ground (1988) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098373 Proyas, baybee Sons of Steel (1988) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098362/ The Chain Reaction (1980) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080513/ Incident at Raven's Gate (1988) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095098/ - this is a maybe, but it's got Australian/social isolation in spades because, yknow, De Heer These are all low-budget as hell because, hey, late 80s Australian genre film was not a particularly well funded endeavour but they've all got their moments
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Oct 5, 2020 13:46
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Right on the tail end, but Prayer of the Rollerboys (1990)
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Oct 5, 2020 14:51
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Kangra posted:Lots of flicks Deathsport (1978) takes place in a wasteland but it's more dystopian future esque one with cities and society is still a thing, it was intended as a spiritual successor to Deathrace 2000. THE ULTIMATE WARRIOR counts. It even has George Eastman in it!  Hell yeah it does. But it also makes me very sad - that lead role, the movie's extremely Fist of the North Star-esque and if Bruce Lee hadn't died he probably would have starred in it (same director as Enter the Dragon and it's about an ultimate warrior rolling into a besieged town).  Sidehackers (Five the Hard Way) does NOT count, it's not in the future at all and and there's nothing apocalyptic about it, a pretty lovely "one man was pushed too far" kinda flick. I'd recommend watching the MST3K episode of it instead of the actual movie. One very late post-apocalyptic flick not on your list that is still a remnant of that type of flick is the 1995 movie Steel Frontier. Has Joe Lara, Brion James, and several other DTV regulars. Some good stunts and explosions in it so worth checking out. There's a lot of American International/Corman ones too from the late 80s and early 90s, a lot of which aren't that great imo. Two that come to mind off the top of my head that I remember being kind of decent are Raiders of the Sun (1992) and Dune Warriors (1990). These are like 2020 Texas Gladiators where like you say it's about actual society happening/re-forming after the apocalypse instead of going fully depopulated. Most of the ? ones on your list do count for this imo. I loving love Rats: Night of Terror (make sure you get the longest/uncut version). It's much more original and fun than it looks on the surface, and that ending, like, WOW hell yeah society after the apocalypse alright. I love it. Neo Rasa fucked around with this message at 16:11 on Oct 5, 2020 |
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Oct 5, 2020 16:08
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Threads (1984) Always good for a laugh. Made for television, and spends time on the lead up to things kicking off but it also assuredly covers 'society' in the following 15 years or so following its collapse.
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Oct 5, 2020 19:02
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Sentinel Red posted:Threads (1984) Trailer: https://youtu.be/vgT4Y30DkaA It’s cut such that the guy on the toilet at 1:56 looks like he’s blasting an atomic dook that destroys the city.
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Oct 11, 2020 18:47
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What's the ray of hope element in Threads, again?
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Oct 15, 2020 09:06
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I, Butthole posted:let's get fucken Australian in here, cunts Top quality stuff here. Love Smoke em if you got em
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Oct 16, 2020 14:29
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The music video for "Knights of Cydonia" by Muse totally falls into this category. It's from 2006, but the video is a homage to that '80s post-apocalyptic sci-fi/Western/martial arts aesthetic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_sBOsh-vyI
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Oct 17, 2020 06:54
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In the Aftermath might fit what you're looking for. It's mostly interesting for it's use of an anime spliced in to tell part of the story. It's not amazing, but there is a ray of hope in it.
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Oct 20, 2020 05:27
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It was made in 89, so I'm assuming it would fit, but Cyborg with Van Damme. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097138/
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Oct 20, 2020 14:16
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What about a sports movie in the wasteland? The Blood of Heroes https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094764/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
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Oct 24, 2020 23:07
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Bogart posted:What's the ray of hope element in Threads, again?
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Dec 2, 2020 17:11
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyOEwiQhzMI Colossus: The Forbin Project code:
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Dec 2, 2020 23:29
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Shrecknet posted:Humanity will, in totum, live on After seeing what counts for "humanity" in that film is it really a hopeful message tho
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Shrecknet posted:it ends with some kids in a school? Humanity will, in totum, live on Threads ends with a freeze frame of a young woman about to scream in horror at the sight of her dead/malformed baby. Quite the ray of hope.
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