In the genre of "Apocalypse" Bashny.Net

Mankind has long dreams about the end of the world. With the advent of movies with special effects, fantasy became particularly picturesque. Every time writers and the writers come up with different reasons for the destruction of humanity. This uprising of machines and the virus turning into a zombie, and all of a threat from outer space and climate change, and much more.

Thanks to this collection, you'll learn about the history of post-apocalyptic kinozhanrov to date, up to 50-ies.

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1. In the movie "2012" describes the disasters that have occurred in the world, when the Mayan calendar coming to an end. For decades, many predicted that the world would end when the 21 December 2012 over an ancient calendar. The film of 2009 - just one of the many paintings in which people confront the alleged end of the world. (Columbia Pictures)





2. Cormac McCarthy novel "The Road" was filmed this year. Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-MakPi play father and son, opposing hungry scum and cannibals who invaded the continent after the nuclear explosion that destroyed America. (Dimension Films)



3. The film "Monster" 2008, a group of young people should be saved from a ruthless monster rampant in New York. Even the Statue of Liberty could not remain unscathed. (Paramount Pictures)



4. In the 2007 film "I Am Legend," Will Smith plays Robert Neville - one of the last survivors of the outbreak, which has turned mankind into flesh-eating zombies. The film is based on the novel by Richard Matheson. This is the third film adaptation of the book. (Warner Bros. Pictures)



5. In the 2006 film "Children of Men" the human race is facing extinction after two decades of universal infertility - a common theme in the literature on the apocalyptic theme. Clive Owen plays a disillusioned bureaucrat who should in any way protect pregnant refugee from Africa (represented by Claire-Hope Ashley). (Universal Pictures)



6. HG Wells wrote the novel "War of the Worlds" in 1898, but the story of the invasion of aliens on Earth continues to excite audiences. Perhaps the most famous works was the adaptation of Orson Welles radio drama, which led many to believe in the reality of the situation, when there was in the air in 1938. In 2005, the studio «Paramount» released the film, directed by Steven Spielberg, Tom Cruise and Dakota Fanning in the lead roles. (Paramount Pictures)



7. In the 2004 film "The Day After Tomorrow," the main negative character acted weather. The film shows the disastrous consequences of global warming and global cooling. Hail the size of a soccer ball has Tokyo and tornadoes destroy International Airport in Los Angeles, while the world falls into a new Ice Age. (20th Century Fox)



8. Emerging from a coma in a London hospital, a courier named Jim realizes that the world around it has changed completely. In the movie "28 Days Later," we are talking about a virus that turns its victims into bloodthirsty zombies. Jim joins several survivors and trying to find an antidote and a place where he can be safe. On the DVD-version of the film has three different endings, which gave the audience food for thought. (Fox Searchlight Pictures)



9. The filmmakers 2003 "core" guessed what would happen to the world if the inner core of the Earth will simply cease to rotate. With the rapid deterioration of the magnetic field of our atmosphere simply will begin to disintegrate at the seams. To save the planet, the team must penetrate to the center of the Earth and all adjust. (Paramount)



10. And as it turns out from Hollywood to shoot two movies on the same topic at the same time? In 1998, there were two film about the collision of Earth with an asteroid. "Armageddon" was considered the best. The main role in it played Bruce Willis, who played driller, to sacrifice themselves for the salvation of mankind. (Touchstone Pictures)



11. In the movie "Deep Impact" is almost the same scenario as in "Armageddon", only this time with the Earth should encounter a comet, not an asteroid. (Paramount Pictures)



12. When the aliens decided to conquer our world in the 1996 film "Independence Day", they realized that people do not give up without a fight, especially on Independence Day, July 4. Bill Pullman plays the president, whose military experience was useful in handy. (20th Century Fox)



13. Life is harsh in the 2035 movie "12 Monkeys", released in 1995. Once infected, 99% of the population and the disaster, which resulted in the surface of the earth has become impossible to live, mankind has left in an isolated world. Hero Bruce Willis - prisoner volunteered to time travel to go back and try to fix it. (Universal Pictures)



14. In the famous Arnold Schwarzenegger movie "Terminator" (1984), the future governor of California plays a cyborg assassin. His task - to go back in time to kill Sarah Connor, the future mother of John Connor -povstantsa, which will raise the people against the robots. After the first part came out a few sequels and even a short series. (Orion Pictures)



15. Many young viewers were traumatized TV films in 1983, "The next day", which shows the fate of the residents of Lawrence, Kansas, and Kansas City, Montana, after a nuclear explosion. (ABC)



16. "Mad Max" Mel Gibson plays a cop in an apocalyptic world where almost no fuel, and law and order are no longer honored. Due to this role, Gibson, previously little known, became a real star. (Warner Bros.)



17. "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" 1978 is a remake of the 1956 film. In these films and original novel by Jack Finney small group of people are discovering that humans replaced by aliens, which are grown in a semblance of cocoons. (United Artists)



19. Michael Crichton, even more famous by the "Jurassic Park", also wrote the book "The virus Andromeda", filmed in 1971. In the story, the scientists must investigate deadly disease of extraterrestrial origin in the city turned out to be immune to the disease, only one baby and an elderly man. (Universal Pictures)



19. The name of the movie 1973 "Soylent Green" a few years after the film never left the lips. Charlton Heston played a New York detective in a world where humanity lives on food, which are secret and not the usual ingredients. (Everett Collection)



20. The star of "Soylent Green" Charlton Heston also starred in the 1968 film "Planet of the Apes." He played an astronaut stranded on an unknown planet where apes rule the people. Statue of Liberty in the film appears in one of the most classic and as often parodied scenes. (Everett Collection)



21. In the 1959 film "On the Beach" in the world of the Third World War broke out, and only in the far Australia still have some semblance of a normal life. Residents of Australia understand that soon they will be infected, and trying to trace the mysterious signals in the hope that somewhere there is a pure, not yet contaminated by radiation world. (United Artists)



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