Sunday, January 16, 2022

Covid-inspired apocalypse movies populating Amazon Prime Video


Amazon Prime Video is a dumping ground for numerous crappy low-budget movies. That includes the post-apocalyptic genre that I closely follow.
In my most recent review of movies on the service, I counted nine exploitation films that seem to have been inspired by the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
They include “Before the Fire,” “Covid-21: Lethal Virus,” “2025 – The World Enslaved by a Virus,” “American Apocalypse,” “Fear,” “Lockdown: 2025,” “Armageddon Tales,” “Infected: The Darkest Day” and “Positive Apocalypse.”
In four articles between November 2019 and July 2020, I documented 117 low-budget independent and foreign films in the post-apocalyptic genre on Amazon Prime. Most of these movies were poorly reviewed on Rotten Tomatoes and IMDb, if they even merited reviews.
What follows are 46 more such post-apocalyptic movies on the service. They bring my total to 163 movies.

In the Year 2889 (1967)
Robot Holocaust (1987)
Ice (2000)
Steve Niles’ Remains (2011)
Ridge War Z (2013)
Collapse (2014)
Doomsday (2015)
Plan Z (2016)
Merrick (2017; France)
Beneath The Eyes Of God (2018)
Dystopia (2018)
Post Apocalyptic Commando Shark (2018)
Republic Z (2018; Russia)
Shangri-La: Near Extinction (2018)
CarroƱa (2019; Argentina)
Redcon-1 (2019)
Solar Impact (2019)
Transit 17 (2019)
A Feral World (2020)
After The End (2020)
Atomic Apocalypse (2020)
Before the Fire (2020)
By Day’s End (2020)
Deadlocked (2020)
Edge of Extinction (2020)
Girl With No Mouth (2020)
Go/Don’t Go (2020)
The Last Hope (2020)
The Wylds (2020)
When the Fever Breaks (2020)
2025 – The World Enslaved by a Virus (2021)
American Apocalypse (2021)
Armageddon Tales (2021)
Covid-21: Lethal Virus (2021; Spain)
Dead Life: Wormwood’s End (2021)
Deus Vult: God Wills It (2021)
Exodus (2021)
Fear (2021)
Infected (2021), aka Infected: The Darkest Day
Lockdown: 2025 (2021)
Nebulous Dark (2021)
Once Upon a Time in the Apocalypse (2021)
Positive Apocalypse (2021)
Survive (2021)
Unit Eleven (2021)
Zone Drifter (2021)

Photo: Movie poster for “Covid-21: Lethal Virus” (2021).

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