The Top Must-Watch Doomsday Movies

Don’t fear the reaper

Are these the end times? Does the world end by plague? Biohazard? Alien invasion, war, climate, asteroid, monsters, devils, God, or a technological dystopian future?

Ever since mankind could put pen to paper there’s been no lack of probability the world was going to end.

As technology grew so did the imagination.

In the Bible there’s the Book of Revelation — also called the Apocalypse of John, Revelation to John, or Revelation of Jesus Christ — is the final book of the New Testament and consequently is also the final book of the Christian Bible.

Conventional understanding has been that the Book of Revelations was John’s vision to comfort beleaguered Christians as they underwent persecution at the hands of an emperor.

Yet, modern interpretation has taken it to be a literal prediction of how the world will end — by God.

One thing is for sure is if nuclear war doesn’t end the world our sun will die. In about 5 billion years scientists estimate the sun will run out of hydrogen. Our star is currently in the most stable phase of its life cycle and has been since the formation of our solar system, about 4.5 billion years ago.

Will Earth last that long?

So, there’s still time to write your will. Dream if we all cooperate build a ship to the stars. Assuming the polar ice caps don’t melt before then.

I compiled a list of my favorite doomsday movies and what year they were predicted to happen. The predictions didn’t come true thank heavens. And the year seems silly in hindsight.

When I was in 1st grade we had a regular doomsday drill. The teacher told us to get under our desks, don’t look at the light, and cover our heads. Why we did this drill was never explained.

I was unaware that I was growing up in a world that for the first time in history could be destroyed in a matter of minutes.

From that point on I became a doomsday fan. As a pre-teen, I read Marvel comics. How superheroes like Thor. The Fantastic Four, Wonder Woman and Superman saved the world.

Little did I know when I was 8 years old the United States and the Soviet Union had a nuclear showdown over the Bay of Pigs.

It was the closest the world came to ending to date. How many times afterward I do not know.

The showdown has returned.

On Feb 22, 2022

“I order the minister of defense and the chief of the general staff [of the Russian armed forces] to transfer the nuclear deterrence forces of the Russian army to a special mode of combat duty,” Putin said in televised comments. — The Guardian.

There’s no escape. A bomb shelter won’t save you. No matter where you live. If you survive the initial strike nuclear winter will encircle the globe and end all life.

12 Monkeys

Composer Paul Buckmaster and myself (agent) in studio mixing the soundtrack for 12 Monkeys.

Terry Gilliam directed this sci-fi film about a man who is sent back in time from the year 2035 to stop a pandemic that will wipe out most of the world’s population and force the survivors to live underground, a disaster that will begin in 1996.

I will be the sole survivor? Alone in my bunker. Crates of unread Marvel episodes and the next 100 years to read them.