Even grimmer is the brief festive scene in the BBC's notorious 1984 nuclear apocalypse film, Threads. A group of shattered survivors sit in silence around a fire, the only soundtrack a baby's wails in ...

The post-apocalypse can be a great source of inspiration for some fantastic action movies, with plenty of great franchises reveling in the chaos of a world that has moved on from society. Some of the ...

Photograph by Ryan Spencer from ‘Such Mean Estate’ (all images courtesy Powerhouse Books) Whether a bang of nuclear annihilation or the slow creep of a pandemic, our potential end-of-world wastelands ...

Art serves many purposes, like providing us with an inside look at the fears and neuroses of society at any given time in history. This month marked the 80th anniversary of when the U.S. dropped ...

Some seasonal horror films use festive settings to add a lighter, playful touch. In the December zombie apocalypse Night of the Comet (1984), Christmas trees and Santa suits appear amid the chaos, ...

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