What are Most Chilling End of The World Scene(s) You seen In the movie and On Television

[BAYLOR]

In the cinema and on television what are he most chilling an disturbing end of the world scenes that you seen and what makes them so memorable?

 

[reiver33]

The 1988 film Last Night, for the chilling banality of it all. The world will end at midnight and noting can be done. People have had months to prepare themselves and government/society has run-down, but there are those who still keep turning up at work, even on this final day.

No car chases, no space ships, no nukes - just ordinary people trying to cope with the end of all songs...

 

[Rodders]

Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World.

A really nicely executed movie, but without hope.

 

[The Crawling Chaos]

The 1988 film Last Night, for the chilling banality of it all. The world will end at midnight and noting can be done. People have had months to prepare themselves and government/society has run-down, but there are those who still keep turning up at work, even on this final day.

No car chases, no space ships, no nukes - just ordinary people trying to cope with the end of all songs...

In the same vein, On The Beach (1959), adapted from Nevil Shute's novel (1957). I did not see the 2000 remake.

Excellent end of the world story.

 

[ralphkern]

A Stephen King film called 'The Mist' A survival horror in which they seemingly reach a no-win scenario, the MC decides to give the other characters the 'easy way out'...but only seconds later realizes that they would have been saved if they'd just hung on.

 

[Susan Boulton]

Have to go with On the Beach. So understated and bleak.

 

[Droflet]

Crack in the World. B grade sf but the final scene of the Earth splitting in half has remained with me for decades.

 

[Venusian Broon]

It's an oldie, practically a cliché, and even as a kid when I first saw it I realised the scale was wrong ("It's too small!") But...

....there was the painstaking slow reveal as they ride along the beach, the only soundtrack the crashing waves on the shore*. Till they reach something...the penny drops and Charlton Heston suddenly understands, with us, what's actually happened.

I give you The Planet of the Apes




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* Actually I might be wrong, there might have been some of the music - I just remember the sea sounds right now though!

 

[chopper]

Threads (1984).

 

[Chris Guillory]

The end of the Twilight Zone episode, To Serve Man.

 

[Brian G Turner]

Most chilling, ever?

Easily The War Game, a documentary made by the BBC in the 1960's about what would happen in the event of a nuclear attack. It was considered so frightening it was banned from broadcast until the 1980's. Even then, it was still terrifying.

I used to have links to it on Youtube, but am afraid I can't find them now.

Meanwhile, here's the BBC's prepare announcement in the event that nuclear war ever broke out:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/02_10_08nuclearattack.pdf

 

[Jeffbert]

Yes, TO SERVE MAN was indeed a great TZ, but my favorite end of world story is another TZ, in which the Earth's orbit is decaying & everything is becoming so hot as to be unbearable. People are wishing it was much cooler, then the sleeper awakens, & it is revealed that the Earth is moving away from the Sun, & everything is freezing! Or was it the other way around?

 

[BAYLOR]

Yes, TO SERVE MAN was indeed a great TZ, but my favorite end of world story is another TZ, in which the Earth's orbit is decaying & everything is becoming so hot as to be unbearable. People are wishing it was much cooler, then the sleeper awakens, & it is revealed that the Earth is moving away from the Sun, & everything is freezing! Or was it the other way around?

Midnight Sun Easily one of the grimmest episode of the Twilight Zone.

 

[Delmak-O]

The Day the Earth Caught Fire has a great unresolved ending. Everyone waiting for an atomic bomb to be detonated to correct the earths orbit. Scenes of a dried up Thames River bed very well done. A bit dated now but still a great film.

 

[Rodders]

I loved that movie.

I remember being quite affected by the destruction of the Earth in the Martian Chronicles TV series. I was only young at the time.

 

[BAYLOR]

Testament 1983 With Jane Alexander . This is about people in a small town in the aftermath of nuclear war. This one is a real downer.

 

[Rodders]

Would invasion of the body snatchers count? Ok, it's not the end of the world as we know it, but it is the end of the human race.

 

[Dinosaur]

Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World.

A really nicely executed movie, but without hope.

I was pleasantly surprised at this film, normally I just expect Kiera Knightly to just stand around looking posh/pretty with no real effort at the scripts.

But it really worked.

 

[BAYLOR]

The Day After 1983

 

[BAYLOR]

inconsistant Moon New Outer limits Tv Series. Though not quite the end.