Post-Apocalyptic films

[CaptainFreedom]

Are there anyone else in here who enjoys this type of movies?

I really like the 70's-80's films.

You know the ones.

Desert wastelands, futuristic cities lying in ruins, bad guys with medieval armor and riding horses, laser guns, synth dominating soundtracks, bloodthirsty mutants and cyborgs, big breasted women's with little or no clothes, Rock'n Roll hairstyles and of course the classic anti-hero who has to save the day with a small bunch of outcasts.

Some of my favorites 1970's-80's post-apocalyptic movies, and a couple of titles that might be seen as "pre-post-apocalyptic".

Death Race 2000 (1975)
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)
Escape From New York (1981)
Blade Runner (1982)
2019: After The Fall Of New York (1983)
The New Barbarians/Warriors Of The Wasteland (1983)
The Terminator (1984)
The Quiet Earth (1985)
Def-Con 4 (1985)
Future-Kill (1985)
America 3000 (1986)
Cherry 2000 (1987)
The Running Man (1987)
She-Wolves Of The Wasteland (1988)
Cyborg (1989)
Hardware/M.A.R.K. 13 (1990)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Highlander 2: The Quickening (1991)
Fortress (1992)
Cyborg 2 (1993)
Soldier (1998)

[lanista]

You can't beat a bit of post apocalyptic goodness. Some of those films were truly awful, though. I remember Bronx Warriors II with Henry Silva - only because it was so bad that its somehow stuck in my memory. There was a kid in it too.... arrgh, its all flooding back to me.

There were definitely two tiers of this kind of thing, though, as you illustrate above.

Bronx Warriors, New Barbarians were really cheap - were these Italian exploitation movies? Time for Wiki to answer the question.

[CaptainFreedom]

Was it a blond little kid?

In some of the Italian ones, both in horror and post-apocalyptic movies it always was a little blond annoying kid who appeared with a badly dubbed voice, done by a woman.

One thing the Italian post-apocalyptic films did real well was having great movie posters and hilarious trailers.

[lanista]

I think that's the little fucker nailed, right there!

All the posters looked like covers for Metal albums from bands like "Taramis" and "Mortal Sin." Which is a good thing.

[CaptainFreedom]

It seems like Lucio Fulci had him cast in almost every one of his horror films in the early 80's.

He pops up in both House By The Cemetery and Manhattan Baby and he sure knows how to scream.

[Kimble]

He was also present during the end of Demons. He was with the family in the Jeep blowing away some demons. Bob from House by the Cemetery.

Another post-apocalyptic masterpiece:

Bruno Mattei's Rats

[CaptainFreedom]

That is an awesome poster, Kimble.

Got an uncut Scandinavian DVD version back in 2009, but don't remember too much of the plot rather than some nudity and people stepping on what seemed to be lots of hamsters?



The Italians doesn't like rats very much do they?

In 2019: After The Fall Of New York there's a scene where a bunch of people are throwing themselves a little hunting party and trashing as many rats as they can.