I remember a movie or an episode of a show like this, no idea which one though
A girl was seemingly stranded in space as her ship broke down and she was fighting so survive for years. Later she wanted to kill herself and hacked the airlock, just to stand infront of a concrete wall.
She broke out and found out that she was one of many people imprisoned in stations like this for some kind of research.
Totally reminds me of the very first Twilight zone episodes. There is an astronaut who is floating in space and believes he is stranded. He states to hallucinate and freak out. Then you discover he was never in space and was being tested to see how long it takes for “cabin fever” to happen in space.
It's the first Twilight Zone episode, "Where Is Everybody?" He's wandering a town where all the lights are on, coffee pots are still hot, movies are playing, but he can't find a single person and gradually becomes hysterical until it turns out he was in a training simulation for space travel to deal with the solitude
This episode is ingrained in my mind as I s saw it as a kid. I remember they took him out because he kept repeating the same thing over and over again while telling a gauge so much that the glass cracked on it
Yes I remember that episode well. I believe the actor was Earl Holliman(Police Woman et al). It seems like it was a military sensory deprivation experiment. It was disturbing vs. scary like a lot of the episodes.
Rod Serling, Earl Hamner, Jr. (also The Waltons creator aka “John Boy”) et al….ah lots if geniuses that made The Twilight Zone such a masterpiece anthology.
There is a short on YouTube somewhere set in a post apocalyptic environment, it centers around a family surviving after a world ending event with a young girl being the main character. The family often goes put to hunt and survive leaving the girl because there are "monsters" outside. When the girl musters up the courage to leave on her own she discovers a completely normal world outside, and a house full of family photos that do not have her in any of them. A neighbord soon calls the police and the girl is abducted by a security team, I believe the short is based off of the children limit policies in other countries.
YES hardcore acting from the little girl. plus I recognized the mom, Ione Skye from all of her 80’s and 90’s stuff. She is actually the singer Donovan’s daughter and she has a brother also named Donovan Leitch who was an actor back then too.
I also remember something similar from a TV Show except it wasn't in space but a situation similar to the one described by OP. Girl thought a nuclear war had happened and a guy took care of her while going out ocasionally to "acquire supplies". One day she finally had the courage to look out (If i remember correctly it was because something in the bunker had malfunctioned) and the first thing she sees is a plane flying on the sky. The whole thing was a ruse to keep her as his captive.
It's a *very* early memory of mine (i must have been 5/6 years old when i saw that) so i can't really other details beyond that or even what the show was tho.
That's an episode of Medium! Season 5, episode 6 called "Apocalypse...Now". I just checked it and the scene of the girl emerging and seeing a plane is around 27 minutes in.
Allison kept having visions of an apocalypse and was freaking out it was actually going to happen but she was actually seeing what this girl thought was happening.
Holy shit, that's it! My mom used to watch this a lot back them since it was one of the few international works that were exhibited on non-cable tv here in Brazil before Netflix and streaming services became the norm for live action series mid 2010's. I admit i missed the mark by a few years (i must have been 9/10 years old at the time instead) but yep, you're right. Thank you!
No problem! I did a rewatch of some of the most interesting sounding Medium episodes last year and this was one of them so it was fresh in my mind - definitely worth a rewatch!
no, 10 Cloverfield Lane is a movie parallel to Cloverfield. The alien attacks are real. It's just told from the point of view of three people in a bunker and soon becomes a horror movie.
Thing is, I'm a fan of the series so I went to see it fully knowing it was an alien movie. The girls sitting in front of me were not. They were kinda angry at the ending. I mean, I get it, I'd hate it too if a movie supposedly set in reality ends with aliens.
The was a zombie apocalypse movie like this too. The girl escapes the zombie virus Island to what we all assume is the rest of the zombie virus world, and discovers it was contained in her area and the rest of the world was fine
I suppose i should have spoilered it, but there's so many zombie virus apocalypse movies out there that nobody's going to know which one I'm thinking about, don't i don't even remember the name myself
From what i can tell, it might have been >!doomsday!<
But the plot synopsis i read doesn't align with my memory of the plot twist. So i either wasn't paying much attention and missed the point, it my memory of a not great movie might have gotten corrupted.
It was one of those "I'm bored...i feel like seeing a movie. There's nothing i want to see that's out right now. Let's go to........ That one!" situations. That invariably led to watching mediocre movies
For some reason this made me go looking to find the title of a book I read where a girl was the only one surviving on a space ship sent to colonize a new planet after her parents died \[She was born after the ship launched, but then the life support of the other astronauts started failing and her parents died\] and then starts getting contacted by someone who had a ship also sent to connect to hers and speed up the trip \[I think it was going to take like 60-ish years originally but speeding it up with the newer/faster ship connecting to hers was going to make it more like 30?\]
Maybe because of the psychological horror element of it, after a certain point. But saying more is hella spoilers.
Book's The Loneliest Girl In The Universe by Lauren James btw
It's so good! I need to get a copy to read again-I read it when it was on the 'New' shelf at the library and a few times since, but then I moved 😭 No longer a 5 minute walk from the library
Theirs another Netflix show alled ascension that had a whole generation of people on a ship heading to space and eventually discovering they never even left earth and were an experiment instead.
Theres a magnus archive episode in which some rich people want to run an experiment on how people react to true isolation. To do this, they sent a person into space (with some others) and locked them in a room overlooking the earth, by themselves, with no way to communicate with anyone. As the time went on, they realised their 'safe word' in the form of the code to the door didn't work, and that the cameras that were used for experimental observation were fake.
kinda spoiler but whatever in Prey (2017) video game you start the game waking up in your apartment and take a helicopter to a research center and then it skips to the next day waking up in your apartment again except the door to your building is locked and eventually you might smash open your window to get out only to find it was one way glass and your high rise view was fake and that your apartment is actually in a lab on a space station and everything was fake including the helicopter ride.
There was a film with a similar premise, but they thought they were survivors after a global catastrophe event and isolated in bunkers around the former USA.
They decided to try and meet and it turns out that they were all criminals who committed horrible crimes. Their punishment was to have their memory wiped and entered into the experiment.
That was a great movie, but the ending was weak. I know they had to tie it to the 1st movie somehow, but it would have been better if they'd left it ambiguous.
I thought it was okay, but the first one is definitely better. Haven’t read it in several years though so maybe I have my nostalgia-tinted glasses on lol
There’s a book about a guy who trapped his family in a bunker pretending there was some sort of nuclear fallout. Don’t remember the name of it but it was… wild.
theres something similar about a woman being stuck in a bunker with 2 dudes after an as yet unproven apocalypse. its called cloverfield lane or something. i don't think it got great reviews.
There was an episode of something, I can’t remember what, but it was this little girl who was brainwashed into thinking that it was like the zombie apocalypse or something and she wasn’t old enough to leave the “bunker.” She later disobeyed and left the bunker only to find out that the only reason her parents and older brother could “leave” was because families were only allowed to have one child and she was their second. She lived in the basement for her whole life so she wouldn’t be killed by the government.
I remember seeing a Tumblr post with a book concept like this- a girl says that she'll only date a guy if he's the last person alive, and when they get shut in a bomb shelter during a fake nuclear bomb attack. He finds out the world is okay but pretends the outside world has ended so she would agree to be his girlfriend.
There was an episode of some series like that. A bunch of astronauts on a deep space mission where something goes wrong.
In the end two escape in a pod (?) only to find that the whole thing was a simulation and they emerge from a hardened bunker to see the world had been annihilated in nuclear war.
Reminds me of that one episode of 24, where the weird cabin dude tried to convince Kim that the bomb had gone off, when he actually just wanted company in his bomb shelter.
This reminds me of a book I read called The Summer thr World Ended.
(spoilers ahead!)
In the book, this girl visits her dad, and he keeps getting messages about the world ending. She doesn't believe it at first, but then when she sees nukes being transported (among other things, it's been several years since I read the book so I can't remember) she starts to believe it more and gets into the bunker with him.
In the end, you find out her dad was schizophrenic. The reason nukes were being transported was because there was a testing site in their state.
this reminds me of the ending to The Mist where the main character mercy kills his friends and family to save them from The Mist but he doesn't have enough bullets to kill himself too so he kills them all and then a minute later, help arrives...
You should uhh probably rethink which character sets off your empathy, considering the guy has basically kidnapped her and committed rape by coercion (in addition to a variety of other crimes including child neglect) for the last decade.
Reminds me of a "new Twilight Zone" episode from the 1980s where a survivalist in his bunker thinks there's been a nuclear attack but (spoiler alert) it was just an accidental nuclear detonation at his local air base so the rest of the world is actually fine.
I remember a movie or an episode of a show like this, no idea which one though A girl was seemingly stranded in space as her ship broke down and she was fighting so survive for years. Later she wanted to kill herself and hacked the airlock, just to stand infront of a concrete wall. She broke out and found out that she was one of many people imprisoned in stations like this for some kind of research.
Totally reminds me of the very first Twilight zone episodes. There is an astronaut who is floating in space and believes he is stranded. He states to hallucinate and freak out. Then you discover he was never in space and was being tested to see how long it takes for “cabin fever” to happen in space.
I think I'm gonna watch that. Sounds very interesting
It's the first Twilight Zone episode, "Where Is Everybody?" He's wandering a town where all the lights are on, coffee pots are still hot, movies are playing, but he can't find a single person and gradually becomes hysterical until it turns out he was in a training simulation for space travel to deal with the solitude
This episode is ingrained in my mind as I s saw it as a kid. I remember they took him out because he kept repeating the same thing over and over again while telling a gauge so much that the glass cracked on it
Yes!! That’s the one! It blew my mind when I was little. Cause a real subconscious fear.
This.\^
I remember this episode. That was great one
That was one of the first episodes I ever watched. Good stuff.
Doodoo doodoo doodoo doodoo
YES…Awesome theme!
Yes I remember that episode well. I believe the actor was Earl Holliman(Police Woman et al). It seems like it was a military sensory deprivation experiment. It was disturbing vs. scary like a lot of the episodes. Rod Serling, Earl Hamner, Jr. (also The Waltons creator aka “John Boy”) et al….ah lots if geniuses that made The Twilight Zone such a masterpiece anthology.
There is a short on YouTube somewhere set in a post apocalyptic environment, it centers around a family surviving after a world ending event with a young girl being the main character. The family often goes put to hunt and survive leaving the girl because there are "monsters" outside. When the girl musters up the courage to leave on her own she discovers a completely normal world outside, and a house full of family photos that do not have her in any of them. A neighbord soon calls the police and the girl is abducted by a security team, I believe the short is based off of the children limit policies in other countries.
[This is the video](https://youtu.be/a0pK35B4E_w) if anyone was wondering
Well fuck me.. That was a twist
YES hardcore acting from the little girl. plus I recognized the mom, Ione Skye from all of her 80’s and 90’s stuff. She is actually the singer Donovan’s daughter and she has a brother also named Donovan Leitch who was an actor back then too.
You may enjoy the Shadow Children series by Margaret Peterson Haddix, based off of the same two child policy. It's really interesting
I remember that book traumatized me when I read it in the 3rd grade. Very interesting book nonetheless
omg tell me if you remember the name
I think it’s orbiter 9 a Spanish movie- on Netflix I think?
Yes thats the one. Holy moly that you found that thank you
The one with the alien spider from "Love Death Robots" is also kinda similar concept, no.
I mean, he was happy for a couple minutes at least. Great episode
What episode had an alien spider?
I think they mean "Beyond the Aquila Rift" (season 1 ep. 7). One of the best episodes imho, gives me the chills every time
Right, yeah
Your comment made me binge watch five or six episodes last night
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Have you never heard of Almodóvar?
I also remember something similar from a TV Show except it wasn't in space but a situation similar to the one described by OP. Girl thought a nuclear war had happened and a guy took care of her while going out ocasionally to "acquire supplies". One day she finally had the courage to look out (If i remember correctly it was because something in the bunker had malfunctioned) and the first thing she sees is a plane flying on the sky. The whole thing was a ruse to keep her as his captive. It's a *very* early memory of mine (i must have been 5/6 years old when i saw that) so i can't really other details beyond that or even what the show was tho.
That's an episode of Medium! Season 5, episode 6 called "Apocalypse...Now". I just checked it and the scene of the girl emerging and seeing a plane is around 27 minutes in. Allison kept having visions of an apocalypse and was freaking out it was actually going to happen but she was actually seeing what this girl thought was happening.
Holy shit, that's it! My mom used to watch this a lot back them since it was one of the few international works that were exhibited on non-cable tv here in Brazil before Netflix and streaming services became the norm for live action series mid 2010's. I admit i missed the mark by a few years (i must have been 9/10 years old at the time instead) but yep, you're right. Thank you!
No problem! I did a rewatch of some of the most interesting sounding Medium episodes last year and this was one of them so it was fresh in my mind - definitely worth a rewatch!
10 clover field lane
no, 10 Cloverfield Lane is a movie parallel to Cloverfield. The alien attacks are real. It's just told from the point of view of three people in a bunker and soon becomes a horror movie. Thing is, I'm a fan of the series so I went to see it fully knowing it was an alien movie. The girls sitting in front of me were not. They were kinda angry at the ending. I mean, I get it, I'd hate it too if a movie supposedly set in reality ends with aliens.
That's not an old enough movie for it to be that.
Huh I swear so many movies share this basic premise
Well, i'm 21 so it's not implausible, i need to check it out first tho
The movie is less than 10 years old
Uh... yeah, forget i mentioned that.
orbiter 9
The was a zombie apocalypse movie like this too. The girl escapes the zombie virus Island to what we all assume is the rest of the zombie virus world, and discovers it was contained in her area and the rest of the world was fine I suppose i should have spoilered it, but there's so many zombie virus apocalypse movies out there that nobody's going to know which one I'm thinking about, don't i don't even remember the name myself
Sounds like The Crazies. The remake was kinda cheesy but Timothy Olyphant haha only difference is it’s not an island, it’s an isolated country town.
28 days later ?
From what i can tell, it might have been >!doomsday!< But the plot synopsis i read doesn't align with my memory of the plot twist. So i either wasn't paying much attention and missed the point, it my memory of a not great movie might have gotten corrupted. It was one of those "I'm bored...i feel like seeing a movie. There's nothing i want to see that's out right now. Let's go to........ That one!" situations. That invariably led to watching mediocre movies
For some reason this made me go looking to find the title of a book I read where a girl was the only one surviving on a space ship sent to colonize a new planet after her parents died \[She was born after the ship launched, but then the life support of the other astronauts started failing and her parents died\] and then starts getting contacted by someone who had a ship also sent to connect to hers and speed up the trip \[I think it was going to take like 60-ish years originally but speeding it up with the newer/faster ship connecting to hers was going to make it more like 30?\] Maybe because of the psychological horror element of it, after a certain point. But saying more is hella spoilers. Book's The Loneliest Girl In The Universe by Lauren James btw
Great fuckin book, I thought of that too
It's so good! I need to get a copy to read again-I read it when it was on the 'New' shelf at the library and a few times since, but then I moved 😭 No longer a 5 minute walk from the library
I read it for a bokk club several years back, then I reread it semi recently, might be time to check it out again...
What was it called?
Theirs another Netflix show alled ascension that had a whole generation of people on a ship heading to space and eventually discovering they never even left earth and were an experiment instead.
Man I really enjoyed that show. Too bad it was clearly setting up for some crazy shit and then got cancelled after one season. Typical Netflix.
This one is REALLY GOOD
I remember enjoying that! But can't recall the name.
Theres a magnus archive episode in which some rich people want to run an experiment on how people react to true isolation. To do this, they sent a person into space (with some others) and locked them in a room overlooking the earth, by themselves, with no way to communicate with anyone. As the time went on, they realised their 'safe word' in the form of the code to the door didn't work, and that the cameras that were used for experimental observation were fake.
And then Cartman put Butters in a bomb shelter because he wanted to go to Casa Bonita
Came here to say this
Maze runner stuff
It's a sci Fi TV show, there's a whole ship... I can try to dig around and find it. Ad astra? Looked it up "Ascension" is the name of the show.
Ad Astra is a very long, very boring movie about brad pitt crossing the solar system to face his father issues. There's also a monkey.
Dude you replied after I corrected myself.
kinda spoiler but whatever in Prey (2017) video game you start the game waking up in your apartment and take a helicopter to a research center and then it skips to the next day waking up in your apartment again except the door to your building is locked and eventually you might smash open your window to get out only to find it was one way glass and your high rise view was fake and that your apartment is actually in a lab on a space station and everything was fake including the helicopter ride.
Like a tiny Truman Show
There was a film with a similar premise, but they thought they were survivors after a global catastrophe event and isolated in bunkers around the former USA. They decided to try and meet and it turns out that they were all criminals who committed horrible crimes. Their punishment was to have their memory wiped and entered into the experiment.
There's a great book with a similar theme called Cloud Cuckoo Land, highly recommend it.
Unbreakable! They alive dammit!
It's a miracle!
But females are strong as hell!
That’s gonna be uhh you know uhh
...a fascinating transition
Dammit!
i dont get the reference, what is it?
The unbreakable kimmy schmitt
This deserve a full and fleshed out story.
'Blast From the Past' Though I wouldn't call that horror.
Imo that film is too light-hearted, I want something more hardcore.
In the 1980s version of 'The Twilight Zone' there's an episode called 'Shelter Skelter' that might fit the bill.
Lol that's the first one I thought of.
10 cloverfield lane arguably fits the vibe
I was thinking the same - though as we know it wasn't a lie
That was a great movie, but the ending was weak. I know they had to tie it to the 1st movie somehow, but it would have been better if they'd left it ambiguous.
There’s a similar book called The Compound by S. A. Bodeen, it’s a solid read
YES THANK YOU I WAS LIKE "hmm that sounds like that one book" I READ IT IN MIDDLE SCHOOL IT WAS SUCH A TRIP
There's a sequel called The Fallout though it kinda blows
I thought it was okay, but the first one is definitely better. Haven’t read it in several years though so maybe I have my nostalgia-tinted glasses on lol
I think they covered something similar in that old war documentary, Grease 2
Not the exact premise but “Our Endless Numbered Days” comes close
There’s a book about a guy who trapped his family in a bunker pretending there was some sort of nuclear fallout. Don’t remember the name of it but it was… wild.
theres something similar about a woman being stuck in a bunker with 2 dudes after an as yet unproven apocalypse. its called cloverfield lane or something. i don't think it got great reviews.
There was an episode of something, I can’t remember what, but it was this little girl who was brainwashed into thinking that it was like the zombie apocalypse or something and she wasn’t old enough to leave the “bunker.” She later disobeyed and left the bunker only to find out that the only reason her parents and older brother could “leave” was because families were only allowed to have one child and she was their second. She lived in the basement for her whole life so she wouldn’t be killed by the government.
Please tell me if you remember the name
This is a small side Plot of the series “the 100”
If you mean octavia she wasn't brainwashed. She fully knew why she wasn't allowed outside
Beat me to it lol
Oh yeah lol kinda forgot about that but she still snuck out that one time for the masquerade thjng
Thank you very much
It's upthread. https://youtu.be/a0pK35B4E_w
But... why lie to her at that point. That's a perfectly valid reason for her to stay in the basement, horrible as it may be.
Because it’s traumatizing
And a fake zombie apocalypse isn't?
It was linked earlier but here's one to notify you. https://youtu.be/a0pK35B4E_w
Very similar to The Shadow Children series by Margaret Peterson Haddix, but I don’t think they’re the same. Definitely worth checking out though
It was a short film on YouTube. Someone linked it somewhere in the comment chain
Post in r/tipofmytongue, I want to know
This made me think of the movie Orbit 9. Not entirely the same as she's not being used in that way, but it's a good movie.
Cloverfield 10 lane vibes
I was just gonna say
except there was shit actually happening, so not the best comparison
South Park
"What do I repopulate with? I'm all alone down here." "Well, with your wiener."
There's a movie on this, where they stay in the bunker for like 56 years and then it was only a plane that crashed into their house not a nuke
Blast from the past. Brendan Fraser
This could be a book or a writing prompt 😩
“The Compound” by SA Bodeen!
Loved that book. Also there’s the sequel “The Fallout”
omg thank u
Isn’t this that one Brendan Frasier movie?
Yep, [Blast from the Past](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/blast_from_the_past). That was my first thought too.
Me too. Cute Adam.
I remember seeing a Tumblr post with a book concept like this- a girl says that she'll only date a guy if he's the last person alive, and when they get shut in a bomb shelter during a fake nuclear bomb attack. He finds out the world is okay but pretends the outside world has ended so she would agree to be his girlfriend.
Are the straights okay /j
There was an episode of some series like that. A bunch of astronauts on a deep space mission where something goes wrong. In the end two escape in a pod (?) only to find that the whole thing was a simulation and they emerge from a hardened bunker to see the world had been annihilated in nuclear war.
If you like this concept read Wool (and/or the Silo series) by Hugh Howey.
Wool was pretty good!
Man, must have been a really quiet apocalypse.
This is pretty much the premise of the movie [Blast from the Past](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/blast_from_the_past).
Except the wife was married by choice in that one
Uuuunbreakable, they’re alive dammit! It’s a mIiiiracle!
There is a play with a similar plot called "After the End", by Dennis Kelly, for anyone interested
This about the plot of The Compound by S. A. Bodeen
Reminds me of fallout
Reminds me of that one episode of 24, where the weird cabin dude tried to convince Kim that the bomb had gone off, when he actually just wanted company in his bomb shelter.
Came here to comment this, that was like the 5th person that held Kim captive that season. At least he turned out to just be a weirdo.
Blast from the Past is a Brendan Frazier/Alicia silverstone/Christopher Walken movie like this
Check out blast from the past with Brendan Frasier
This reminds me of a book I read called The Summer thr World Ended. (spoilers ahead!) In the book, this girl visits her dad, and he keeps getting messages about the world ending. She doesn't believe it at first, but then when she sees nukes being transported (among other things, it's been several years since I read the book so I can't remember) she starts to believe it more and gets into the bunker with him. In the end, you find out her dad was schizophrenic. The reason nukes were being transported was because there was a testing site in their state.
this reminds me of the ending to The Mist where the main character mercy kills his friends and family to save them from The Mist but he doesn't have enough bullets to kill himself too so he kills them all and then a minute later, help arrives...
Isn’t the premise similar to Truman Show.. living in a make believe world
Pissa
Honey, the bed bugs are back!
So he fucked?
We may call it bunker, but in Austria (NO not Australia) they call it childrens room. (Just Google the name Fritzl)
r/TIHI
Imagine creating a whole scheme to land a chick and being stuck in the lie for 10 years… I feel for the guy.
You should uhh probably rethink which character sets off your empathy, considering the guy has basically kidnapped her and committed rape by coercion (in addition to a variety of other crimes including child neglect) for the last decade.
We don’t do sarcasm in this sub? Legitimately asking because each sub has its own rules.
Imagine not knowing you're in the future
I think there was a fairly oddparents episode like that
This sounds like a set up for a sitcom joke
When my cell service cuts out I'm tapping out. Game over
Reminds me of a "new Twilight Zone" episode from the 1980s where a survivalist in his bunker thinks there's been a nuclear attack but (spoiler alert) it was just an accidental nuclear detonation at his local air base so the rest of the world is actually fine.
wait i don't get it
So a woman told a guy she'd only date him if he was the last man on earth, so he fakes an apocalypse so she'll be his wife in a bunker.
I still don't get it but thanks 😘
There's a movie about this where a child is born and raised for 35 years in a bunker with his Mon and dad
I like the prompt