This week at the Post-Apocalyptic Movie Club, a little known gem from the 1980’s: SPECIAL BULLETIN. You might not have heard of this movie, but it’s certainly worth checking out. It’s a well done (for the time) faux news broadcast covering a breaking story. A group of terrorists have docked a boat in the port [...]
It’s been far too long since I recommended any films on this site. Here then is another classic up for consideration as part of my Post-Apocalyptic Movie Club. I’m going to try and post these with much more regularity throughout 2012. The film I’ve chosen today is one of my all time favourite movies, and [...]
If you’ve read my previous posts, you’ll know that I was at last weekend’s Grimm Up North festival to talk zombies after the Sunday afternoon screening of The Dead, the Ford Brothers’ Africa-set zombie movie. I thought it was a fascinating, yet strangely unsatisfactory film which is certainly worth your time. Here’s the trailer. Click [...]
I thought it had only been a few weeks, but it’s actually several months since I last posted an entry in my ‘Post-Apocalyptic Movie Club’. For those who don’t know what I’m talking about, it’s an (increasingly) irregular look at some of the post-apocalyptic movies I’ve seen, particularly those which have gone on to have [...]
I’ve not been able to post here much lately, but I’ll be back next week with plenty of Autumn: The City related stuff. In the meantime, here’s another entry in the Post-Apocalyptic Movie Club. In May 1980 the British government distributed a leaflet called ‘Protect and Survive’ to all homes in the UK. It (along [...]
Several months late, but here’s the second in my series of looks at classic (and not so classic) post-apocalyptic movies. Picture the scene: late-1983 – a very different, pre-Internet world where news comes almost entirely from the daily papers and scheduled radio and TV bulletins, where information isn’t available ‘on tap’ like it is today. [...]
Well that was quite a year! The last 12 months have been incredible, and there’s plenty more planned for 2011. Just to whet your appetite, here’s a taster of what’s due: the final book in the HATER series: THEM OR US (I’ve just seen some proposed cover designs: wow… just wow!), several more AUTUMN books (watch for [...]
Thanks to www.quietearth.us (an invaluable site for post-apocalyptic news and reviews) for drawing attention to this incredible public information movie from Nathaniel Lindsay. I’ve spent years trying to imagine what I’d need to do to survive in a post-apocalyptic world. This video sums it all up in less than 9 minutes. Genius. vimeo Direkt
This is the first film in my ‘Post-Apocalyptic Movie Club’ – a series of regular features, essays and discussions about films which depict the end of the world in one way or another. I know it’s not right, but I’m addicted to this stuff! Please check out the movie, read my thoughts, then join me [...]
Forgive the bizarre title of this post – it will make sense! I never really intended to use this website to tell you what I did on my summer holidays, but today I’m making an exception. I’m sure any writers who are reading this will agree: we never really stop working. Even when you’re not [...]
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