Friday, April 17, 2015

The 30 best post-apocalyptic movies

After compiling a list of the 30 best-reviewed animal attack movies, I decided to do the same with post-apocalyptic movies.
As with the animal attack movies, I first put together a clean list.
My list of post-apocalyptic movies weeded out pre-apocalypse movies and those that were mostly about dystopian futures.
What follows is a list of the best-reviewed post-apocalyptic movies based on critics aggregated by Rotten Tomatoes.
The top two movies – “The Day After” (1983) and “The Road Warrior” (1981) – each received unanimous praise.

The 30 best-reviewed post-apocalyptic movies, % of positive reviews
  1. The Day After (1983), 100%
  2. The Road Warrior (1981), 100%
  3. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), 96%
  4. Wall-E (2008), 96%
  5. Dawn of the Dead (1978), 95%
  6. Snowpiercer (2014), 95%
  7. Children of Men (2006), 92%
  8. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014), 90%
  9. Edge of Tomorrow (2014), 90%
  10. Zombieland (2009), 90%
  11. Planet of the Apes (1968), 89%
  12. The World’s End (2013), 89%
  13. Delicatessen (1991), 88%
  14. Twelve Monkeys (1995), 88%
  15. 28 Days Later (2002), 87%
  16. The Matrix (1999), 87%
  17. The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961), 86%
  18. Testament (1983), 86%
  19. The War of the Worlds (1953), 85%
  20. This Is the End (2013), 83%
  21. Day of the Dead (1985), 82%
  22. Night of the Comet (1984), 82%
  23. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985), 81%
  24. Warm Bodies (2013), 80%
  25. Dredd (2012), 78%
  26. Ever Since the World Ended (2001), 78%
  27. The Time Machine (1960), 76%
  28. A Boy and His Dog (1975), 75%
  29. Dawn of the Dead (2004), 75%
  30. The Road (2009), 75%
Movie art: “The Road Warrior” and “The Day After.”


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