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

[willwallace]

Melancholia, the whole movie is kind of depressing but that's the point. The ending with the planet crashing into the earth while some of the characters are under a "magic" teepee is pretty intense.

 

[Curt Chiarelli]

Not a movie, but rather a 1964 TV campaign ad from the Johnson administration:

Not only does Barry Goldwater become President, but that little kid still won't be able to count properly after the Big One is dropped. Scary stuff . . . .

 

[BAYLOR]

Not a movie, but rather a 1964 TV campaign ad from the Johnson administration:

Not only does Barry Goldwater become President, but that little kid still won't be able to count properly after the Big One is dropped. Scary stuff . . . .

I can recall seeing this add on tv but it was years after Barry Goldwater's presidential bid.

 

[Curt Chiarelli]

I can recall seeing this add on tv but it was years after Barry Goldwater's presidential bid.

Yes, that's how I saw it too. I was still a kid when it was incorporated into a longer TV program about nuclear war. It made quite an impression. Years later I found out that this ad was only played once because of its ham-fisted use of fear mongering. Nowadays, this kind of political maneuver is far more commonplace. You can get a toxic dose of the same tactics every day on FOX News.

 

[BAYLOR]

Yes, that's how I saw it too. I was still a kid when it was incorporated into a longer TV program about nuclear war. It made quite an impression. Years later I found out that this ad was only played once because of its ham-fisted use of fear mongering. Nowadays, this kind of political maneuver is far more commonplace. You can get a toxic dose of the same tactics every day on FOX News.

It effectively scared alot of people away from Goldwater.

 

[Curt Chiarelli]

It effectively scared alot of people aw from Goldwater.

Hell, Goldwater effectively scared a lot of people away from Goldwater!

 

[BAYLOR]

Hell, Goldwater effectively scared a lot of people away from Goldwater!

Goldwater was all talk. I doubt he would have ever used nukes on Vietnam or anywhere else. He did not want that kind of war no leader in his right mind would.

 

[Curt Chiarelli]

Goldwater was all talk. I doubt he would have ever used nukes on Vietnam or anywhere else. He did not want that kind of war no leader in his right mind would.

I couldn't agree more. Still, his manner and posturing would have been enough, under the right conditions, to trigger such a conflict. His arrogance and bellicosity had an effect like that of benzene on an open flame, making escalation, rather than resolution, the only likely outcome.

 

[BAYLOR]

The Stand 1994 miniseries.

 

[BAYLOR]

Night Gallery The Boy Who Predicted Earthquakes

 

[BAYLOR]

Level 7 from the tv anthology series Out of The Unknown It has Shades of On the Beach and Dr Strangelove.

 

[BAYLOR]

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

It's bleak and humous at the same time.

 

[BAYLOR]

Beneath the Planet of the Apes That should have been the end of the series.

 

[Jeffbert]

Even Planet of the Apes itself is a bleak end of the world scenario, at least as far as humanity is concerned. Given the rise of the apes, I would welcome annihilation. I agree with Venusian Broon on this, entirely.

As far as that goes, being an Eloi living under Morlock rule would also suck, but I doubt the Eloi actually realize what awaits them in the Morlocks' underground home. For that matter, the 'humans' living under Ape rule seem to have devolved such that they hardly understand what awaits those whom the apes capture. They run, because the apes violently pursue them. Yet, since they lack speech, one cannot tell if they know. Given the uncertainty here, I must say that the humans in the Planet of the Apes fare worse than the Eloi as depicted in the Time Machine, even though the apes are not depicted as eating the 'humans,' because the 'humans' fear the apes, and live in constant fear of them, while the Eloi are as sheep.

 

[HanaBi]

The Quiet Earth (1985) - last man on Earth (seemingly) scenario - which has been done numerous times previously & post. But the very ending is somewhat of a surprise - although he is still alone although not necessarily on the same planet. Or is he?

So not necessearily a morbid end, although it depends on your pov of being completely on your own until the end of days.

 

[BAYLOR]

The Time Travelers 1964

 

[Jeffbert]

I think I saw The Time Travelers on TCM sometime recently, everything seems to click with my memory, except the portal. I recall seeing another one with a similar plot except that a spaceship was the vehicle to the future, rather than a portal. There were savages who lived on the surface, dominated by large powerful brutes, who suffered from exposure to the sun, or some other element. The other surface dwellers were eventually redeemed with medicine. Anyway, the civilized guys were, as I recall, non-violent & content to remain in caves, until the guy or guys from the past come.

Genesis II & Planet Earth were Roddenberry's failed pilots. Both had a very similar plot, so similar, that my memory of them became confabulated, & I was rather astonished to learn they were 2 separate films. I recently watched both on Amazon streaming. Anyway, the guy, portrayed in the latter film by John Saxon awakens in the future to find a civilization underground, and outside, savages rule; though this is the confabulation, as Saxon was born to the underground society in Planet Earth. In revenge for censoring belly buttons in STAR TREK, Roddenberry gave the savages two of them (Genesis II); this latter film actually seems a worse fate, as the awakened guy is caught between two very unpleasant societies, at least it seems so in the beginning. The Tyranians are the two-hearted two belly buttoned race that regards humans as chattel; though acknowledging that the man has skills they lack; & demands of him that he repair their nuclear reactor (that somehow continued working long after its human technicians died). As he has had very little exposure to PAX (the underground society) he thinks it, too is totalitarian, but eventually learns better.

I just learned that Roddenberry made a third pilot, called Strange New World, & hope Amazon also has this streaming. Anyway, another pilot apparently unrelated to these is The STRANGER (1973 USA), In which an astronaut lands upon another Earth that is apparently on the opposite side of the sun, & is thus, unknown to us. I recall the scene in which he steals a van, and as he is driving along, the radio turns on by itself and the totalitarian govt. announcements / orders are given. http://www.modcinema.com/search-product/325-stranger-the-tv-1973-dvd?s=THE+STRANGER I loathe the idea of paying $20 or so for a DVD of what I suspect will be low quality, coming from a TV source, though.

Anyway, these are a few that I remembered & finally found; though the hardest part was finding the titles!

 

[BAYLOR]

When Worlds Collide 1951. Epic and chilling but with hopeful ending.

 

[Jeffbert]

When Worlds Collide, is that the one in which the wheelchair-bound elderly man finances the building of the spaceship that takes some two or three dozen scientists, engineers, 1 boy & 1 dog, & such, to a passing planet, just as the doomed Earth is about to to destroyed?

 

[BAYLOR]

When Worlds Collide, is that the one in which the wheelchair-bound elderly man finances the building of the spaceship that takes some two or three dozen scientists, engineers, 1 boy & 1 dog, & such, to a passing planet, just as the doomed Earth is about to to destroyed?

They were supposed to be remaking this one at one point.