The Top Apocalypse Movies

Growing up was the atom bomb and the religious Right peddling their Watchtower magazine.

One step ahead or following was Hollywood reenacting what “the end” would be like.

Now there is a pandemic, an American idealism divide, climate disaster, war, and a new feeling of doom.

How will it all end?

Will it be biohazard, alien invasion, war, climate, asteroid, monsters, devils, God, or a technological dystopian future?

Ever since mankind could put pen to paper or scratch a cave wall there’s been no lack of probability the world would end.

As technology grew so did the imagination.

In the Bible there’s the Book of Revelation — also called the Apocalypse of John, Revelation to John, or Revelation of Jesus Christ — is the final book of the New Testament and is also the final book of the Christian Bible.

Conventional understanding has been that the Book of Revelations was John’s vision to comfort beleaguered Christians as they underwent persecution at the hands of an emperor.

Yet, modern interpretation has taken it to be a literal prediction of how the world will end — by God.

One thing is for sure if nuclear war doesn’t end the world our sun will die. In about 5 billion years scientists estimate the sun will run out of hydrogen.

Our star is in the most stable phase of its life cycle and has been since the formation of our solar system, about 4.5 billion years ago.

Will Earth last that long?

So, there’s still time to write your will. Dream if we all cooperate to build a ship to the stars.

Assuming the polar ice caps don’t melt before then.

I compiled a list of my favorite doomsday movies and what year they were predicted to happen. The predictions didn’t come true (yet) thank heavens. And the year seems silly in hindsight.

When I was in 1st grade we had a regular doomsday drill. The teacher told us to get under our desks, don’t look at the light, and cover our heads. Why we did this drill was never explained.

I was unaware that I was growing up in a world that for the first time in history could be destroyed in a matter of minutes.

From that point on I became a doomsday fan. As a pre-teen, I read Marvel comics. How superheroes like Thor, the Fantastic Four, Wonder Woman, and Superman saved the world.

Little did I know when I was 8 years old the United States and the Soviet Union had a nuclear showdown (DEFCON 4) over the Bay of Pigs in Cuba.

It was the closest the world came to ending to date. How many times afterward I do not know.

The showdown has returned.

On Feb 22, 2022

“I order the minister of defense and the chief of the general staff [of the Russian armed forces] to transfer the nuclear deterrence forces of the Russian army to a special mode of combat duty,” Putin said in televised comments. — The Guardian.

There’s no escape.

A bomb shelter won’t save you, no matter where you live. If you survive the initial strike nuclear winter will encircle the globe and end all life.

12 Monkeys (my personal connection to a pandemic prophecy movie)

The 12 Monkeys movie soundtrack composer was Paul Buckmaster. I was his agent. The photo is of us in the studio mixing the soundtrack.

Terry Gilliam directed this sci-fi film about a man who is sent back in time from the year 2035 to stop a pandemic that will wipe out most of the world’s population and force the survivors to live underground, a disaster that will begin in 1996.

Futuristic Doomsday Movie Timelines 1&2 — image by Author

Will you be the sole survivor?