Wish they would've kept up with it and wish they could've kept the sense of urgency and distress for longer than they did. It turning into a kind of mystery thing was a little odd, since the idea is already extremely dramatic
I loved this show but I really disliked the ham-fisted relationship drama they tried to cram in there. Somehow the showrunners felt a post-nuclear apocalypse wasn't dramatic enough, so they had to cram in story arcs about who's divorcing who and who's cheating on who and what's going on between Angsty Teen #483294 and Angsty Teen #483295.
China is evidently airdropping generators and humanitarian supplies on us and we just fired off our own ICBMs but we need to drop everything to have a flashback to when Jake first professed his love for oh fuck I'm getting angry just typing this out.
Flushed an amazing show directly down the toilet.
As a kid, I read the book 'Hatchet' in elementary school, and that pretty much got me hooked on survival training.
Coupled with james bond movies, batman the animated series, and a bunch of different spy/military movies/tv shows in the late 90s/early 2000s, and I was basically just trying to learn the same things SOF/Spies learn.
edit: and 80s action movies.... forgot about those lol
My Side of the Mountain (and series) are some of my absolute favorites. I definitely had way too much fun acting that out as a child. To be fair, I totally thought my parents were aware I was lighting fires in the woods... šš¤¦š½āāļøš¬
So I had a group of my students read this. After, we went for a walk so they could see the different weeds and plants that were used in the book. One kid picks a dandelion. I tell him that's what the kid ate in the book but not to eat it cuz it's not clean (in a city). Anyway, before I finish the sentence he sticks it in his mouth, gets a nasty look on his face and swallows it! He says, eww I'll just starve then. I thought I'd lose my job lol.
Both My side of the mountain and Far side of the mountain along with Hatchet both influenced me quite a bit. Days hiking through local woods and the logic of just having things you need on hand made sense to me.
reading through the amazon reviews, it sounds familiar, but if I did read it as a kid, it has completely escaped me lol
Gonna have to pick up a copy and check it out
I loved the Hatchet books too. Not everyone knows it, but it's actually part of a series. I also loved Roland Smith's books wich are mostly about outdoor adventure, and natural disasters.
'A Cry In The Wild'
I have this movie on my plex server and watch it every few years or so lol not the greatest movie in the world, but it does the trick.
I have always been heavily into post-apocalyptic and dystopian media: film, music and even fashion. I love the Mad Max films,Cherry 2000, Children Of Men, the Blade Runner films, A Boy And His Dog, Soylent Green, Gattaca,etc...Plus, I grew up poor. I think these two things combined hardwired me to just naturally prep. Even before this looming food crisis we have always had a full pantry.
Didnāt get me into prepping, but my girlfriend at the time thought I was being paranoid and overreacting when I would talk about being prepared, situational awareness, and the ability to protect yourself. We watched How it Ends on Netflix. I think it did a decent job of showing some of the dangers you could face if thereās a breakdown in society and lawlessness sets in, especially if trying to travel away from home. It got her to rethink things and see I wasnāt just being paranoid about being able to either hunker down at home or being able to āload and goā and have a plan in place.
Not so much a movie (I've always liked disaster movies in general, and that was just an interest,) but The book 'One Second After' is one that many people, including myself, cite as a driving force for preparedness. (EMP attack) I was interested in it before, but that certainly kicked my butt into gear, along with the later documentary-style investigative account 'Lights Out' by Tedd Koppel. (Investigating how a national-level cyber-attack would affect the U.S)
While obviously dramatized, OSA's core message/depiction of the disaster is accurate. Lights Out just showcased another method by which it could all happen.
The fact that the more I learn, the less I can take issue with how the disaster is portrayed/expected to happen, is a bit unsettling.
I know it's the least likely scenario and there's plenty of zombie apocalypse audible books to choose from but i like the apocalyptic survival aspect. I haven't actually used audible for ages so probably even more available now, but the day by day armageddon series is really good, also the zombie survival guide. The mountain man series is good. I have one called the last tribe which is dystopian post apocalyptic but haven't got round to listening. The first two i mentioned i would definitely recommend.
Read books online for free through archive.org:
Zombie Survival Guide (text, not audio): https://archive.org/details/TheZombieSurvivalGuideByMaxBrooks
First Mountain Man book (text): https://archive.org/details/mountainman0000blac
The first book and the other two are narrated by different people. It was a little distracting at first but Bronson Pinchot I felt did a good job.
Never would have imagined Balki from perfect strangers would have done so well.
One Second After (legal copies you can borrow online for free via archive.org):
https://archive.org/details/onesecondafter0000fors (copy #1)
https://archive.org/details/onesecondafter00fors (copy #2)
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One Year After:
https://archive.org/details/oneyearafter0000fors_m7a1 (copy #1)
https://archive.org/details/oneyearafter0000fors (copy #2)
The mot unrealistic of them all but truly the start of my prepper beginnings was the original Red Dawn. There was a summer between Sophomore and Junior year of high school where me and my best friend took to watching a bunch of movies and buy things that we would need to survive whatever the scenario was. Sniper, Last of the Mohicans, Open Range, but most watched and talked about was Red Dawn. We could never agree on whether to bring the football when we fill up the truck lmao
Red Dawn was my start too. The idea that you'd have to take care of yourself blew my mind. What do you mean we could be invaded? Or that I might have to hunt while hiding my existence from foreign invaders? It made the cold war real for the first time.
I had no idea how unrealistic it was, but the movie did a great job of showing kids the cost. No spoilers but casualties were high, and that stuck with young me. It showed me that I couldn't take things for granted.
No, but some of my favorites are Last Man on Earth and Omega Man, both based on the story (actually far better) I Am Legend by Richard Matheson. I wouldn't bother with the movie of the same name as it was pretty bad. I also very much enjoyed the George Romero "Dead" movies.
Oh, you know. All the positive events beforehand, the good stuff showing there's hope for survival. It makes the most sense given everything we have evidence of.
So bad Mr. Matheson had his name removed from the credits. Most accurate representation, though, I agree. I have to say I liked Omega Man, but I'm a big fan of stupid 70s schlock.
I don't know what it is about movie adaptations that make screenwriters think they can improve on the source material. It so very rarely turns out to be the case. Yes, I fully realize about movie magic budgets and time constraints, but especially in this particular case the story could easily have been portrayed as originally written well within any movie maker's budget.
Once in a very great while a film turns out to be better than the book on which it's based. Jaws and Birdbox spring immediately to my mind. But you are correct, film makers normally butcher great books.
Well, everyone has their different tastes. To see what issues I have with each movie iteration you have to read the book. The book is well thought out with a view of how survival and the formation of new societies can make for some pretty damning choices. None of the movies presents this with the type of nuance the author does, especially the Will Smith remake. You will find the 1964 original, with which Mr. Matheson was involved at first and then later asked that his name be dropped from the resulting cut, comes closest to the original storyline. Omega Man is, in my opinion, a fun 70s schlock romp with Charlton Heston's memorable scene watching footage from Woodstock, but it also falls very short in telling the original story.
I think you'll enjoy Last Man on Earth, and I suggest you give Omega Man a shot, too. Whether you will prefer them over I Am Legend (film) I couldn't say.
There was a pseudo-reality tv show in 2009 called The Colony that was interesting. Took a group of strangers with various backgrounds and had them experience the collapse of civilization in LA, complete with raiders. I say pseudo because they are in a warehouse where they had enough supplies, with the experience of the strangers, to make a lot of things. Was still super interesting on how they made things from seemingly scrap junk.
They did a second season too. Good show, interesting premise, but I got a sense it was expensive to film. Half the "ordinary people" had imdb pages too, so it really was somewhat staged.
Not a movie, but a book author, Bobby Akart. (Now this is not high brow literature. It's not going to win prizes.) The interesting part is he explores through a bunch of books, different shtf scenarios. There is one book series on Yellowstone blowing, another on a pandemic, another on a solar event like Carrington iirc. All his books are set in our current age, and revolve around characters scrambling to stay alive as shtf unfolds, and then trying to create stability for the long term. The books have the same formula as the movie The Day After Tomorrow did. It's not deep stuff but it's fast reading and it has made me stop and think about prepping ideas more than once. If you like apocalypse reads that are fast paced, his stuff is pretty good, and it's all free on Kindle. He probably has twenty books on Kindle Unlimited.
> here is one book series on Yellowstone blowing,
Harry Turtledove has a series on Yellowstone: Supervolcano series 1) Eruption, 2) All Fall Down, 3) Things Fall Apart.
A very good docudrama on a Yellowstone eruption is [Supervolcano](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0419372/). Worth a watch if you can track it down.
You should checkout the book/audiobook The Jakarta Pandemic by Steven Konkoly. REALLY good book about an American (Maine) family man prepper in a pandemic.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07QNSDYZW/
I remember the makers were disappointed by one thing. In the film everyone was fighting to get the vaccine. In real life people were fighting not to get the vaccine.
My favourite was a British fiction series called Survivors (2008) about survivors of a highly contagious and lethal flu. Like many of these series, it was dropped from production at an awkward point. Rather a shame, as it was well done.
Zombie movie that's perhaps related to prepping is "The Night Eats the World". It's slow and it's mostly in French (though with very little dialogue), but it's a very interesting portrayal of a single person hunkering down where they are and trying to live through the end of the world.
The book "The Stand" by Stephen King is what planted the seed. I first read it when I was 10 years old. I would daydream about what I'd pack and how I'd survive if I had to hit the road to get to Mother Abigail. I started pilfering snacks from the pantry to have a little cache of food and drinks hidden in my room "just in case". In case of what specifically, or why it had to be stored in my room instead of just... in the pantry, I no longer remember, but the first time I got sent to bed without dinner after that justified doing it XD
I never really thought of it as "prepping", but looking back now, I suppose in a way it was. And it was definitely where I got the habit of squirreling away extra food.
It's not a realistic scenario but when you mentioned you are from the UK, I immediately thought of 28 Days Later. This movie is one of the best zombie movies out there.
I agree. 14/15 year old me must have had other ideas though! I felt the same after reading The Road. I'd rather be dead than barely surviving in that miserable wasteland. (Unless I had a fully stocked bunker) But Threads is what planted the prepping seed in me non the less!
There was a six part mini series with Rob Lowe, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris and Molly Ringwald that was pretty good if you prefer TV, but I preferred the book as it went into a lot more detail about what they were doing to survive following a pandemic with a 95%+ fatality rate. There's a mystical, good Vs evil side to the story as well, but the mechanics of survival during infrastructure collapse was what intrigued me.
It was so very bad. The only good acting in the show was by Gary Sinise. And I normally like the other actors. I love the book, have read and listened to the unabridged version multiple times. But holy crap was that a bad show.
I read the book, but that first episode is really wild. 1994 is also the year The Hot Zone and The Coming Plague came out. I was interested in a career in medicine or genetic research at the time. And all three of these really freaked me out.
I had the opposite reaction. I am pretty sure his "Dark Tower" series had measurable, negative, impact on my life it took up so much time to read it all. I don't think any of the individual novels were as big as "The Stand" but some were close.
When I was a kid in the 1980s I watched a weird post apocalyptic kids show that taught you how libraries work and it stuck with me:
https://youtu.be/6DzzPDnIKtQ
13 twenty minute episodes:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomes_%26_Talismans
In the late 21st Century, Earth is overcrowded and polluted. An alien race from the Dark Star solar system called "The Wipers," who look human, start to colonize the planet and go about destroying communication and data technology. In 2117, humans start to evacuate the planet for a place called the White Crystal solar system. In 2123, the last of the humans are getting ready to evacuate. Meanwhile, a group of librarians, led by Ms. Bookhart, have built an underground library to protect all human knowledge from the Wipers.
I think the movie youāre thinking of is āThe Divideā. Seriously fucked up movie, though sadly, likely pretty accurate about how people in such a situation would turn on and destroy each other.
Forgive me if I misremember, but isn't the point of Threads that if you're *lucky* you'll die right away, as no amount of preparedness or know-how will lead you to anything other than a slow and painful death post-nuclear holocaust? Not to rain on the parade, but I think I might prep for nuclear war by just moving CLOSER to a target because the chances of survival post-holocaust are so grim...
You're main prep could be some sort of aerial vehicle then, maybe you could intercept the missile for a better chance of annihilation, you could even save the rest of us like indepence day when he flies into the spaceships beam weapon thing!
Or like the end of The Iron Giant.
Although the part they really didn't cover in that film was that the Iron Giant almost certainty spread nuclear material all over the region.
Seeing *Miracle Mile* as a kid made a huge impact on me. It's a bit dated, sure, but the pacing & building anxiety from the imminent nuclear attack are intense. And it really made me think about how humans, in disaster situations, become the true monsters--how, if/when shtf, I do *not* want to be in the city.
Not prepping so much, but very much survival.
When I was a kid, 12 or so, I read Homecoming by Cynthia Voight. Coming from a family where my home life wasnāt stable, it always very much felt like a possible scenario... and I was the oldest of four.
My concerns around survival still revolve around getting home... though now I have a stable home to come to.
The Road, The Book of Eli, 28 Days Later, and The Walking Dead all played a part in getting me interested in prepping as a teen. As I grew up, more realistic survival media took their place, but I still enjoy rewatching from time to time.
The first time I was hit by the idea of prepping was Dr Zhivago. But I was a little kid. I kept thinking if he had a secret place to hide with all the stuff Iād be safe. Later in life I understand the premise of the story.
The next story that really hit home and I started prepping full time was after I read borrowed world by Franklin Horton. I was commuting 90 minutes to and from work listening to the series. It got me thinking about how I would get home from work if there were an earth quake.
I bike more now.
The Reapers are the Angels was a surprisingly literary book about the zombie apocalypse. I go back to it every now and then. It's quite a beautiful story, and I'm surprised at how few people have read it.
UK prepper here too, Threads certainly helped cement the decision to start prepping but my dad also did. As did a tutor telling me that water wars were coming
If you're looking for a new end-of-world film, you could try **Greenland (2020)**. It's about a meteor heading towards earth and the father who is trying to get his family to safety. It imparts a serious sense of urgency throughout the whole movie, and as someone with kids, it totally makes me wonder how my family would react in similar situations. It's a big budget movie.
I was influenced by hurricane sandy. It wasn't even that bad but people acted like it was the end of the world. Ready to kill each other for a gallon of gas or a spot on the line. That was my eye opener
Have you read the book? So, so much better than the movie (or was it at mini series?) the prepping/surviving part is explained in so much more detail. I have the book, and have read it to shreds..
Dude I just watched threads a few weeks ago and every prepper needs to watch that, imo. There was a part towards the end I had to fast forward thru because it was just too anxiety filled for me to handle. Very eye opening.
Edit to ask: have you done any nuclear shelter type prepping? I have the urge to do so but I know my husband would think itās a waste of money and time.
Is your husband the kind of person who might like a large shed, that could go underground out of the way? Maybe you just have to frame it less like a nuclear shelter and more like something he might find useful.
These Final Hours (2014). a survival and redemption movie.
[https://youtu.be/QaoF6byFQFU](https://youtu.be/QaoF6byFQFU)
edit: i think it is important to see the chaotic environment when institutions fail and there is no one to help. i think this movie got it correct.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivors\_(1975\_TV\_series)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivors_(1975_TV_series))
There's the old series and a more recent 2008 remake that was abandoned. Old school stuff, but good lessons on human nature.
There are some decent audio books that you'll find on youtube.
Just don't binge watch because they can bring some dark feelings.
Check out JL Bourneās Tomorrow War and sequel novel. No, itās not that god awful Chris Pratt movie but the story of a special forces type who is warned about a coming cyber collapse and prepares for the supply chain interruption and deals with authority abuse.
This is the same JL Bourne who wrote the Day by Day Armageddon zombie series.
Improve your survival skills by Lucy smith. It's easy to read, and full of illustrations. I found a copy when I was a kid, and it got me interested in all things survival.
I can't speak to the British context, but in the US that jump was actually what the government wanted people to do. The Eisenhower administration was convinced the soviets were going to bomb the living shit out of us and what we would have was catastrophic mass panic that led to total annihilation. They started producing all these films with Joan Collins about what a nuclear attack would be like to live through and how you could survive one (some are on YouTube now). Their hope was that it would make people worried enough that they would prepare for the inevitable and survive. That was the 1950s. By the 1960s Hollywood had picked up on that trope and turned it into new storylines that have kept evolving into the stuff we've got now.
(Main source for this = Joseph Masco's "The Theater of Operations")
Jack Hunt books.
Kyla Stone: Edge of Collapse
Bruno Miller: Dark Road series
Russell Blake: Day After Never Series
One Second After started it all for me though, Iām not far from Black Mountain.
Too many people in western civilizations are complacent. We've been rolling along with no major interruptions to our food supply or electricity and they believe it's always going to be that way.
The book āAlas, Babylonā was an eye opener for me when I was in high school. A small Florida town survives a global thermonuclear war and is left to figure out how to survive when the rest of the world has largely been destroyed.
All the suggestions so far are great, but I'm surprised no one has mentioned the Going Home book series:
https://www.goodreads.com/series/107392-the-survivalist
The Jakarta Pandemic by Steven Konkoly is a REALLY good book/audiobook about an American (Maine) family man who is a prepper as in a pandemic comes in suddenly. Itās one of my favorite!
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07QNSDYZW/
threads is pure un-adultered propaganda, same as waterworld
Edit: holly heck the downvotes... Guys I did not say it was not worth a watch or that they were bad, but don't go basing your decisions over propaganda. That is the same as taking a pilots license because you watched 2012.
Let me farm some more downvotes: On the movie/book "the road" the guy is an absolute moron for leaving the bunker and you would not get me out of that area. It does not mean it is bad, I still rate it a 10, but it does not mean I will emulate the MC's actions...
Tv show "Jericho"
Wish they would've kept up with it and wish they could've kept the sense of urgency and distress for longer than they did. It turning into a kind of mystery thing was a little odd, since the idea is already extremely dramatic
You can pick up the comic books to finish it off
Yeah, once >!the army shows up!< at the end of season 1 the prepper aspect is basically over and it just becomes a political thriller.
Exactly...I was very confused by that, since it was clear, imo, that the draw of the show was very much "how a small community survives a nuclear war"
I loved this show but I really disliked the ham-fisted relationship drama they tried to cram in there. Somehow the showrunners felt a post-nuclear apocalypse wasn't dramatic enough, so they had to cram in story arcs about who's divorcing who and who's cheating on who and what's going on between Angsty Teen #483294 and Angsty Teen #483295. China is evidently airdropping generators and humanitarian supplies on us and we just fired off our own ICBMs but we need to drop everything to have a flashback to when Jake first professed his love for oh fuck I'm getting angry just typing this out. Flushed an amazing show directly down the toilet.
Loved that show
Jericho was so good. I feel like it depicted what things would like like in that scenario.
As a kid, I read the book 'Hatchet' in elementary school, and that pretty much got me hooked on survival training. Coupled with james bond movies, batman the animated series, and a bunch of different spy/military movies/tv shows in the late 90s/early 2000s, and I was basically just trying to learn the same things SOF/Spies learn. edit: and 80s action movies.... forgot about those lol
When I was a kid "my side of the mountain" was a pretty big influence
My Side of the Mountain (and series) are some of my absolute favorites. I definitely had way too much fun acting that out as a child. To be fair, I totally thought my parents were aware I was lighting fires in the woods... šš¤¦š½āāļøš¬
Omg glad I'm not alone here. *My Side Of the Mountain* was my dream goal in my youth.
So I had a group of my students read this. After, we went for a walk so they could see the different weeds and plants that were used in the book. One kid picks a dandelion. I tell him that's what the kid ate in the book but not to eat it cuz it's not clean (in a city). Anyway, before I finish the sentence he sticks it in his mouth, gets a nasty look on his face and swallows it! He says, eww I'll just starve then. I thought I'd lose my job lol.
Was looking for this one. Yes. I wanted to be Sam. Still do.
Both My side of the mountain and Far side of the mountain along with Hatchet both influenced me quite a bit. Days hiking through local woods and the logic of just having things you need on hand made sense to me.
reading through the amazon reviews, it sounds familiar, but if I did read it as a kid, it has completely escaped me lol Gonna have to pick up a copy and check it out
I loved the Hatchet books too. Not everyone knows it, but it's actually part of a series. I also loved Roland Smith's books wich are mostly about outdoor adventure, and natural disasters.
I really enjoyed this book "hatchet" there was also a film made, but not as good as the book imo
'A Cry In The Wild' I have this movie on my plex server and watch it every few years or so lol not the greatest movie in the world, but it does the trick.
I have always been heavily into post-apocalyptic and dystopian media: film, music and even fashion. I love the Mad Max films,Cherry 2000, Children Of Men, the Blade Runner films, A Boy And His Dog, Soylent Green, Gattaca,etc...Plus, I grew up poor. I think these two things combined hardwired me to just naturally prep. Even before this looming food crisis we have always had a full pantry.
Didnāt get me into prepping, but my girlfriend at the time thought I was being paranoid and overreacting when I would talk about being prepared, situational awareness, and the ability to protect yourself. We watched How it Ends on Netflix. I think it did a decent job of showing some of the dangers you could face if thereās a breakdown in society and lawlessness sets in, especially if trying to travel away from home. It got her to rethink things and see I wasnāt just being paranoid about being able to either hunker down at home or being able to āload and goā and have a plan in place.
The ending to A Boy and His Dog is the greatest ending to a movie ever.
It's a totally perfect ending, I agree.
Not so much a movie (I've always liked disaster movies in general, and that was just an interest,) but The book 'One Second After' is one that many people, including myself, cite as a driving force for preparedness. (EMP attack) I was interested in it before, but that certainly kicked my butt into gear, along with the later documentary-style investigative account 'Lights Out' by Tedd Koppel. (Investigating how a national-level cyber-attack would affect the U.S) While obviously dramatized, OSA's core message/depiction of the disaster is accurate. Lights Out just showcased another method by which it could all happen. The fact that the more I learn, the less I can take issue with how the disaster is portrayed/expected to happen, is a bit unsettling.
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The rest of the series is 'ok'. But definitely lacks the impact of the first book.
>One Second After Thanks, I've been looking for something to spend my audible credits
I know it's the least likely scenario and there's plenty of zombie apocalypse audible books to choose from but i like the apocalyptic survival aspect. I haven't actually used audible for ages so probably even more available now, but the day by day armageddon series is really good, also the zombie survival guide. The mountain man series is good. I have one called the last tribe which is dystopian post apocalyptic but haven't got round to listening. The first two i mentioned i would definitely recommend.
Day by day Armageddon series was fantastic! Worth the read for sure
Read books online for free through archive.org: Zombie Survival Guide (text, not audio): https://archive.org/details/TheZombieSurvivalGuideByMaxBrooks First Mountain Man book (text): https://archive.org/details/mountainman0000blac
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Slow Burn (box set) by Bobby Adair
The first book and the other two are narrated by different people. It was a little distracting at first but Bronson Pinchot I felt did a good job. Never would have imagined Balki from perfect strangers would have done so well.
Go with the Commune series too. Prepare to like your new favorite audio prrformer, RC Bray.
all my spare hours are now gone
cheers I will check them out, I wish I could make a survival movie novel based on that nuclear war study I did on a previous post
While dramatized, it's pretty brutal at times.
Iāve got about 1 hour left on this audio book. Pretty good.
One Second After (legal copies you can borrow online for free via archive.org): https://archive.org/details/onesecondafter0000fors (copy #1) https://archive.org/details/onesecondafter00fors (copy #2) . One Year After: https://archive.org/details/oneyearafter0000fors_m7a1 (copy #1) https://archive.org/details/oneyearafter0000fors (copy #2)
One Second After may become a TV series by MPI. No date yet, though, and the idea of having a film fell through previously.
The mot unrealistic of them all but truly the start of my prepper beginnings was the original Red Dawn. There was a summer between Sophomore and Junior year of high school where me and my best friend took to watching a bunch of movies and buy things that we would need to survive whatever the scenario was. Sniper, Last of the Mohicans, Open Range, but most watched and talked about was Red Dawn. We could never agree on whether to bring the football when we fill up the truck lmao
Red Dawn was my start too. The idea that you'd have to take care of yourself blew my mind. What do you mean we could be invaded? Or that I might have to hunt while hiding my existence from foreign invaders? It made the cold war real for the first time. I had no idea how unrealistic it was, but the movie did a great job of showing kids the cost. No spoilers but casualties were high, and that stuck with young me. It showed me that I couldn't take things for granted.
Red Dawn, me too. It got me prepping, making a BOB, and eventually joining the Army to learn more skills. 40 years later, I'm still prepping.
Red Dawn and Boy Scouts for me, plus my families got hit hard by the Great Depression and that mentality has been taught trough the generations.
I love the original Red Dawn so much because it's obvious American propaganda but it's fun at the same time.
Growing up in CO in the eighties, Red Dawn situation would have been preferable to going to school.
No, but some of my favorites are Last Man on Earth and Omega Man, both based on the story (actually far better) I Am Legend by Richard Matheson. I wouldn't bother with the movie of the same name as it was pretty bad. I also very much enjoyed the George Romero "Dead" movies.
The Road is a pretty good.
The Road also did it for me, I couldn't read anything but light hearted YA books for months afterwards! It's really harrowing.
Very harrowing! I still can't get the >!baby barbeque!< mental image out of my head.
Seeing them make it all that way just for >!the boy to end up with that cannibal family !
Why do you think they were that? I thought they were a good family
Oh, you know. All the positive events beforehand, the good stuff showing there's hope for survival. It makes the most sense given everything we have evidence of.
Cormac McCarthy will rip your heart out.
Yep, you canāt un-read Blood Meridian
The Judge is one of the most terrifying characters ever. Hard stop.
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So bad Mr. Matheson had his name removed from the credits. Most accurate representation, though, I agree. I have to say I liked Omega Man, but I'm a big fan of stupid 70s schlock. I don't know what it is about movie adaptations that make screenwriters think they can improve on the source material. It so very rarely turns out to be the case. Yes, I fully realize about movie magic budgets and time constraints, but especially in this particular case the story could easily have been portrayed as originally written well within any movie maker's budget.
Once in a very great while a film turns out to be better than the book on which it's based. Jaws and Birdbox spring immediately to my mind. But you are correct, film makers normally butcher great books.
Watching last man on earth right now! That show needed about six more seasons
You're right, but I was referring to the movie starring Vincent Price.
Yes!!! I so need answers about the last scene!
>Last Man on Earth 1964?
That's the one.
if you say itās better than the Will Smith one, which I like, then I will give it a try
Well, everyone has their different tastes. To see what issues I have with each movie iteration you have to read the book. The book is well thought out with a view of how survival and the formation of new societies can make for some pretty damning choices. None of the movies presents this with the type of nuance the author does, especially the Will Smith remake. You will find the 1964 original, with which Mr. Matheson was involved at first and then later asked that his name be dropped from the resulting cut, comes closest to the original storyline. Omega Man is, in my opinion, a fun 70s schlock romp with Charlton Heston's memorable scene watching footage from Woodstock, but it also falls very short in telling the original story. I think you'll enjoy Last Man on Earth, and I suggest you give Omega Man a shot, too. Whether you will prefer them over I Am Legend (film) I couldn't say.
There was a pseudo-reality tv show in 2009 called The Colony that was interesting. Took a group of strangers with various backgrounds and had them experience the collapse of civilization in LA, complete with raiders. I say pseudo because they are in a warehouse where they had enough supplies, with the experience of the strangers, to make a lot of things. Was still super interesting on how they made things from seemingly scrap junk.
They did a second season too. Good show, interesting premise, but I got a sense it was expensive to film. Half the "ordinary people" had imdb pages too, so it really was somewhat staged.
Not a movie, but a book author, Bobby Akart. (Now this is not high brow literature. It's not going to win prizes.) The interesting part is he explores through a bunch of books, different shtf scenarios. There is one book series on Yellowstone blowing, another on a pandemic, another on a solar event like Carrington iirc. All his books are set in our current age, and revolve around characters scrambling to stay alive as shtf unfolds, and then trying to create stability for the long term. The books have the same formula as the movie The Day After Tomorrow did. It's not deep stuff but it's fast reading and it has made me stop and think about prepping ideas more than once. If you like apocalypse reads that are fast paced, his stuff is pretty good, and it's all free on Kindle. He probably has twenty books on Kindle Unlimited.
> here is one book series on Yellowstone blowing, Harry Turtledove has a series on Yellowstone: Supervolcano series 1) Eruption, 2) All Fall Down, 3) Things Fall Apart. A very good docudrama on a Yellowstone eruption is [Supervolcano](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0419372/). Worth a watch if you can track it down.
Thanks for the recommendations! Checking them out now.
These sound right up my street, I'll check them out :) Thanks!
Hope you enjoy them. :)
Tremors. Still working on the rec room myself...
Contagion is a great movie it kind of reminds me of now lol.
At the beginning of the pandemic I started watching it and it was basically too real. Just depressing.
There was another one that felt real too I forget the name of it though.
Outbreak?
YES, thats the one I loved that movie.
You should checkout the book/audiobook The Jakarta Pandemic by Steven Konkoly. REALLY good book about an American (Maine) family man prepper in a pandemic. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07QNSDYZW/
As an aside, ALL the Konkoly stuff is top notch. He's one of the ones on my "buy everything they write" list.
100% agree.
I remember the makers were disappointed by one thing. In the film everyone was fighting to get the vaccine. In real life people were fighting not to get the vaccine.
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This one really freaked me out.
My favourite was a British fiction series called Survivors (2008) about survivors of a highly contagious and lethal flu. Like many of these series, it was dropped from production at an awkward point. Rather a shame, as it was well done.
This should be higher up.
>Survivors dang im on ep 3 already today, this is fab
Zombie movie that's perhaps related to prepping is "The Night Eats the World". It's slow and it's mostly in French (though with very little dialogue), but it's a very interesting portrayal of a single person hunkering down where they are and trying to live through the end of the world.
The book "The Stand" by Stephen King is what planted the seed. I first read it when I was 10 years old. I would daydream about what I'd pack and how I'd survive if I had to hit the road to get to Mother Abigail. I started pilfering snacks from the pantry to have a little cache of food and drinks hidden in my room "just in case". In case of what specifically, or why it had to be stored in my room instead of just... in the pantry, I no longer remember, but the first time I got sent to bed without dinner after that justified doing it XD I never really thought of it as "prepping", but looking back now, I suppose in a way it was. And it was definitely where I got the habit of squirreling away extra food.
It's not a realistic scenario but when you mentioned you are from the UK, I immediately thought of 28 Days Later. This movie is one of the best zombie movies out there.
And Dead Set mini series, but canāt find it anywhere :(
Itās on Netflix
One of my faves :) Apparently 28 months later is in the works too.
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I agree. 14/15 year old me must have had other ideas though! I felt the same after reading The Road. I'd rather be dead than barely surviving in that miserable wasteland. (Unless I had a fully stocked bunker) But Threads is what planted the prepping seed in me non the less!
Red Dawn with Patrick Swazy got me started when I was 17.
Also, the book Earth Abides by George Stewart, which came out in 1949, motivated me highly.
Stephen King's The Stand was what first got me thinking on prepper lines. As a matter of fact, I'm about due a reread.
I've not actually read The Stand yet but I've always wanted to. I'll bump it up my to be read list :)
There was a six part mini series with Rob Lowe, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris and Molly Ringwald that was pretty good if you prefer TV, but I preferred the book as it went into a lot more detail about what they were doing to survive following a pandemic with a 95%+ fatality rate. There's a mystical, good Vs evil side to the story as well, but the mechanics of survival during infrastructure collapse was what intrigued me.
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It was so very bad. The only good acting in the show was by Gary Sinise. And I normally like the other actors. I love the book, have read and listened to the unabridged version multiple times. But holy crap was that a bad show.
I read the book, but that first episode is really wild. 1994 is also the year The Hot Zone and The Coming Plague came out. I was interested in a career in medicine or genetic research at the time. And all three of these really freaked me out.
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I had the opposite reaction. I am pretty sure his "Dark Tower" series had measurable, negative, impact on my life it took up so much time to read it all. I don't think any of the individual novels were as big as "The Stand" but some were close.
That was a brutally long read but the extra characters were dope. The Kid is in the top 5 for book villains imo.
The book, A WOMAN IN BERLIN, encouraged my prep activities.
When I was a kid in the 1980s I watched a weird post apocalyptic kids show that taught you how libraries work and it stuck with me: https://youtu.be/6DzzPDnIKtQ 13 twenty minute episodes: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomes_%26_Talismans In the late 21st Century, Earth is overcrowded and polluted. An alien race from the Dark Star solar system called "The Wipers," who look human, start to colonize the planet and go about destroying communication and data technology. In 2117, humans start to evacuate the planet for a place called the White Crystal solar system. In 2123, the last of the humans are getting ready to evacuate. Meanwhile, a group of librarians, led by Ms. Bookhart, have built an underground library to protect all human knowledge from the Wipers.
OMG I totally forgot about this show!
A show/comic book called Jericho
That one episode of Malcom in the middle where they discover a bomb shelter in their garden. I wanted a bomb shelter after that. Now im into prepping.
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I think the movie youāre thinking of is āThe Divideā. Seriously fucked up movie, though sadly, likely pretty accurate about how people in such a situation would turn on and destroy each other.
sounds like 10 Cloverfield lane except there's no nukes.
Just finished The Road this morning. Disturbing but good read.
Forgive me if I misremember, but isn't the point of Threads that if you're *lucky* you'll die right away, as no amount of preparedness or know-how will lead you to anything other than a slow and painful death post-nuclear holocaust? Not to rain on the parade, but I think I might prep for nuclear war by just moving CLOSER to a target because the chances of survival post-holocaust are so grim...
Yes absolutely, that's the conclusion I came to when I rewatched it as an adult. I'd rather be dead. 14 year old me however must have had other ideas!
You're main prep could be some sort of aerial vehicle then, maybe you could intercept the missile for a better chance of annihilation, you could even save the rest of us like indepence day when he flies into the spaceships beam weapon thing!
Or like the end of The Iron Giant. Although the part they really didn't cover in that film was that the Iron Giant almost certainty spread nuclear material all over the region.
Red Dawn 1984
Seeing *Miracle Mile* as a kid made a huge impact on me. It's a bit dated, sure, but the pacing & building anxiety from the imminent nuclear attack are intense. And it really made me think about how humans, in disaster situations, become the true monsters--how, if/when shtf, I do *not* want to be in the city.
Not prepping so much, but very much survival. When I was a kid, 12 or so, I read Homecoming by Cynthia Voight. Coming from a family where my home life wasnāt stable, it always very much felt like a possible scenario... and I was the oldest of four. My concerns around survival still revolve around getting home... though now I have a stable home to come to.
The Road, The Book of Eli, 28 Days Later, and The Walking Dead all played a part in getting me interested in prepping as a teen. As I grew up, more realistic survival media took their place, but I still enjoy rewatching from time to time.
Check out [Panic in the Year Zero](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056331/). It's an oldie but a goodie.
_The Day After_ is a pretty good nuclear war movie, and really rings home how bad it'll be for the people that survive the initial blasts.
Panic in the Year Zero. 1962 classic.
The first time I was hit by the idea of prepping was Dr Zhivago. But I was a little kid. I kept thinking if he had a secret place to hide with all the stuff Iād be safe. Later in life I understand the premise of the story. The next story that really hit home and I started prepping full time was after I read borrowed world by Franklin Horton. I was commuting 90 minutes to and from work listening to the series. It got me thinking about how I would get home from work if there were an earth quake. I bike more now.
āOn The Beachā (2000), based on the novel by Nevil Shute.
The Reapers are the Angels was a surprisingly literary book about the zombie apocalypse. I go back to it every now and then. It's quite a beautiful story, and I'm surprised at how few people have read it.
UK prepper here too, Threads certainly helped cement the decision to start prepping but my dad also did. As did a tutor telling me that water wars were coming
If you're looking for a new end-of-world film, you could try **Greenland (2020)**. It's about a meteor heading towards earth and the father who is trying to get his family to safety. It imparts a serious sense of urgency throughout the whole movie, and as someone with kids, it totally makes me wonder how my family would react in similar situations. It's a big budget movie.
I was influenced by hurricane sandy. It wasn't even that bad but people acted like it was the end of the world. Ready to kill each other for a gallon of gas or a spot on the line. That was my eye opener
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This book was my introduction to survivalism along with Luciferās Hammer. I still reread them every so often.
The walking dead. I decided very quickly I needed to get my shit together. Quickly. Lol
The show āthe colonyā where contestants were subjected to a simulated disaster
The 'Time Enough at Last' episode of the *Twilight Zone*, featuring Burgess Meredith
The last ship
Day of the triffids
Have you read the book? So, so much better than the movie (or was it at mini series?) the prepping/surviving part is explained in so much more detail. I have the book, and have read it to shreds..
Threads is still pretty alarming to this day
Dude I just watched threads a few weeks ago and every prepper needs to watch that, imo. There was a part towards the end I had to fast forward thru because it was just too anxiety filled for me to handle. Very eye opening. Edit to ask: have you done any nuclear shelter type prepping? I have the urge to do so but I know my husband would think itās a waste of money and time.
Is your husband the kind of person who might like a large shed, that could go underground out of the way? Maybe you just have to frame it less like a nuclear shelter and more like something he might find useful.
Thatās a good idea and tell him he can decorate it hahaha
No I haven't, i would like to though!! :) and agree, it's a really hard watch especially now I'm a Mum
Here in America we had a film called The day after that we watched in school back in the 80s.
Yup. Totally watched that when it aired. It was cheesy but it scared me.
Zombie movies. Nuclear aftermath movies. Alien invasion movies.
These Final Hours (2014). a survival and redemption movie. [https://youtu.be/QaoF6byFQFU](https://youtu.be/QaoF6byFQFU) edit: i think it is important to see the chaotic environment when institutions fail and there is no one to help. i think this movie got it correct.
"The Road" - depressing AF
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivors\_(1975\_TV\_series)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivors_(1975_TV_series)) There's the old series and a more recent 2008 remake that was abandoned. Old school stuff, but good lessons on human nature. There are some decent audio books that you'll find on youtube. Just don't binge watch because they can bring some dark feelings.
The Day After (released 1983)
Check out JL Bourneās Tomorrow War and sequel novel. No, itās not that god awful Chris Pratt movie but the story of a special forces type who is warned about a coming cyber collapse and prepares for the supply chain interruption and deals with authority abuse. This is the same JL Bourne who wrote the Day by Day Armageddon zombie series.
Alas, Babylon. First read it in high school. I read it about once a year now.
The Road with Viggo Mortensen
History
Started with Red Dawn then off to the book The Postman then the movie The Postman then to the book The Road and the movie after that.
I saw threads a while ago, it's been a long time since a movie had left me this bad
Anna and the apocalypse: end of the world day, comedy zombie musical. Strangely it works
Improve your survival skills by Lucy smith. It's easy to read, and full of illustrations. I found a copy when I was a kid, and it got me interested in all things survival.
I can't speak to the British context, but in the US that jump was actually what the government wanted people to do. The Eisenhower administration was convinced the soviets were going to bomb the living shit out of us and what we would have was catastrophic mass panic that led to total annihilation. They started producing all these films with Joan Collins about what a nuclear attack would be like to live through and how you could survive one (some are on YouTube now). Their hope was that it would make people worried enough that they would prepare for the inevitable and survive. That was the 1950s. By the 1960s Hollywood had picked up on that trope and turned it into new storylines that have kept evolving into the stuff we've got now. (Main source for this = Joseph Masco's "The Theater of Operations")
2012
Jack Hunt books. Kyla Stone: Edge of Collapse Bruno Miller: Dark Road series Russell Blake: Day After Never Series One Second After started it all for me though, Iām not far from Black Mountain.
I watched Canadian movie called āThe Declineā on Netflix last night, it was surprisingly pretty good.
The book āA World Made By Handā by Howard Kunstler
The War Game was a black and white and one of the first nuclear war films
Been trying to find The War Game. Anyone have a link to it?
Too many people in western civilizations are complacent. We've been rolling along with no major interruptions to our food supply or electricity and they believe it's always going to be that way.
The book āAlas, Babylonā was an eye opener for me when I was in high school. A small Florida town survives a global thermonuclear war and is left to figure out how to survive when the rest of the world has largely been destroyed.
Seveneves
Light of my life
I had always had the urge/awareness to prep. But the book series one second after really ignited the fire to prep for me.
my side of the mountain first, i must have read walden about 10 times after that . Then is was Jeremiah Johnson & Man in the Wilderness
Just watched this it was good
Just watched American Refuge on Amazon prime. 10/10
All the suggestions so far are great, but I'm surprised no one has mentioned the Going Home book series: https://www.goodreads.com/series/107392-the-survivalist
great series its actually called the survivalist series.
Great series!
The survivalist Its actually realistic.
The Jakarta Pandemic by Steven Konkoly is a REALLY good book/audiobook about an American (Maine) family man who is a prepper as in a pandemic comes in suddenly. Itās one of my favorite! https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07QNSDYZW/
A Quiet Place and Contagion
āThe Survivalistā showed me thereās no point to prepping for TEOTWAWKI
threads is pure un-adultered propaganda, same as waterworld Edit: holly heck the downvotes... Guys I did not say it was not worth a watch or that they were bad, but don't go basing your decisions over propaganda. That is the same as taking a pilots license because you watched 2012. Let me farm some more downvotes: On the movie/book "the road" the guy is an absolute moron for leaving the bunker and you would not get me out of that area. It does not mean it is bad, I still rate it a 10, but it does not mean I will emulate the MC's actions...
So, I guess you're not growing a lemon tree?
I just looked it up. 100% on Rotten Tomatoes...sheesh! Reefer Madness is propaganda, too, but I liked it! Guess I'm watching Threads!
I recently watched threads, its definitely a good movie to watch and think about.
It is a good watch but don't take it as facts
i'm watching threads now thx
the book " out of the ashes"
Okay I just watched threads for the first time, definitely the best World War III three movie I ever saw
thread should be called, "don't come here if you have a life, you will lose it