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

[BAYLOR]

Lexx the last episode . Earth while bring devoured by a giant Alien ship gets taken out by the Lexx.

 

[Cli-Fi]

My avatar is taken from Day After Tomorrow a "fun" doomsday disaster popcorn flick full of climate fiction. It's still pretty chilling anyway.

 

[hardsciencefanagain]

Probably the one in "Knowing" with Nick Cage

 

[Caledfwlch]

In the 80's the BBC made a drama called Threads following a family in Sheffield as tensions between Nato and the Soviets rise, culminating in an exchange of nukes. It scared the absolute brown stuff out of the audience at the time, it used the real UK Government Attack Warning Emergency Broadcast that would cut into all tv and radio channels, I think it was the first time British people got to see what it would look like if a British city was smashed to pieces should the Cold War turn Hot. It was only repeated once iirc, and that was 10 years ago, long after original broadcast.

Wasn't an early 80's american nuclear attack movie banned? May have been called Without Warning

 

[Brian G Turner]

Wasn't an early 80's american nuclear attack movie banned? May have been called Without Warning

Are you thinking of this?

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.

 

[Caledfwlch]

Are you thinking of this?

It was the Day After I am thinking of, and it was not banned
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After

 

[Brian G Turner]

It's just occurred to me that I never watched Threads. I'm half-tempted to buy or rent it, just to show my kids the fears their parents grew up through. However, I suspect it would end up giving them nightmares for a long time afterwards! So maybe I shouldn't.

 

[Caledfwlch]

It's just occurred to me that I never watched Threads. I'm half-tempted to buy or rent it, just to show my kids the fears their parents grew up through. However, I suspect it would end up giving them nightmares for a long time afterwards! So maybe I shouldn't.

Deffo not for younger Kids, though they could watch up to the missiles starting to impact around Sheffield, it's after the attack that it gets grim and nasty.

I worked out that the first explosion you see off beyond Sheffield, between the buildings is the Soviets giving Doncaster a well needed makeover, as the nearest target to be seen from Sheffield by my calculations would be Robin Hood Airport (RAF Finningley, at the time) getting hit. Having lived in Donny for 3 years, some redecorating by the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces would only have improved the place. though, given the mutants that live there, I do wonder if a nuke went off at some point in the past.

 

[Venusian Broon]

It's just occurred to me that I never watched Threads. I'm half-tempted to buy or rent it, just to show my kids the fears their parents grew up through. However, I suspect it would end up giving them nightmares for a long time afterwards! So maybe I shouldn't.

I remember watching it when it came out, so I must have been 13 at the time. I'm pretty sure everyone had that overhanging fear that there really could be a third world war and nuclear devastation somewhere in the background of their minds (at least I did!). I'm not sure how it would feel like watching it now, given that the cold war is now something taught in school history rather than something that seems to actively tax peoples minds now.

Like it's forefather The War Game (Which wasn't banned, the BBC deemed it too horrifying to show it to the public in 1965 - but they did show it to overseas audiences!) it is about getting the facts across about what would actually happen and because of that it is utterly grim. It basically showed a family and what they did - following government advice on what to do and the likely consequences of society afterwards: Starvation, camps of forced workers to grow crops, society run by the military etc.... Pretty goddamn awful.

What seemed the most ludicrous (to me) was the government advice on building nuclear shelters - basically find your safest room and strongest indoor wall, put a frame of doors leaning against it, pad it with mattresses and whatever you could find then shut yourself in, with your family and whatever food and water you could squirrel away....here is the actual advice in fact: http://www.atomica.co.uk/main.htm.

I wonder if this advice was given to 1) stop you moving about and picking up fall out 2) make you feel that you are actually doing something positive (although in many cases it just would not be enough.)

There is also the official government films on the matter of which the above website is the leaflet form. But it all brings back all that old paranoia and fear for me - too much! :

 

[Toby Frost]

I'd second Threads, which is to the apocalypse what 1984 is to most dictatorships. On the Beach, too.

How about The Road? That was pretty determined to be miserable as hell.

 

[Venusian Broon]

How about The Road? That was pretty determined to be miserable as hell.

Yep, what a depressing film. Entertaining? In a sort of car crash way I suppose. What did it teach me about humanity. That we're usually pretty awful. Even the good guys at times.

Thank god I've watched it, so that I can avoid it now.

 

[psikeyhackr]

Threads (1984).

Yeah, I'll have to go with that. I don't think I have watched it since the first time.

psik

 

[bedlamite]

Threads. Horrible. And the scenes of the post apocalyptic world in Twelve Monkeys - there's something about the wild animals wandering around a city that freaks me out.

 

[Toby Frost]

Good point about Twelve Monkeys. I re-watched it recently and it’s a much bleaker and harder film to look at than I remembered. Even the Gilliam-machines seem oppressive, far more than in Brazil. Perhaps that’s because the underground sections seem so cramped and sweaty. It’s a good film, but surprisingly lacking in fun.

 

[BAYLOR]

It's just occurred to me that I never watched Threads. I'm half-tempted to buy or rent it, just to show my kids the fears their parents grew up through. However, I suspect it would end up giving them nightmares for a long time afterwards! So maybe I shouldn't.

I saw not on PBS decades ago, It's very well done, believable quite grim.

 

[BAYLOR]

Shelter Me a story in the Metal Hurlant Chronicles. Very very chilling stuff.

 

[soulsinging]

Yep, what a depressing film. Entertaining? In a sort of car crash way I suppose. What did it teach me about humanity. That we're usually pretty awful. Even the good guys at times.

Thank god I've watched it, so that I can avoid it now.

I never understood the hype around that book and movie.

 

[BAYLOR]

The first Hellboy movie showed a nightmarish vision of a world devastated by Cthulhu like elder beings.

 

[vgunn]

Another vote for Threads.

 

[BAYLOR]

Good point about Twelve Monkeys. I re-watched it recently and it’s a much bleaker and harder film to look at than I remembered. Even the Gilliam-machines seem oppressive, far more than in Brazil. Perhaps that’s because the underground sections seem so cramped and sweaty. It’s a good film, but surprisingly lacking in fun.

Ive seen 12 Monkeys once and that was quite enough. It's a great film but I found ti easy too bleak. As for Brazil, it's pretty grim as well but this I have re-watched. I absolutely hate the ending even though storywise it gives the film more impact.