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Metropolis
Silent film set in an industrial world in the year 2026. The city of Metropolis has an ongoing battle between man vs. machine and class struggle.
- This links with the fear in the 1920s of industrialisation and technological advances. -
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Set in a California town where extraterrestrial invasion of human beings, replicating their appearance and having no human emotions or inviduality. A doctor uncovers the invasion and tries to stop them.
- This is around the period of the cold war where people feared invasion from an unknown force. -
Planet of the Apes
An astronaut crew crash land on a mysterious planet in the future, they find intelligent species of apes which dominate the planet and enslave humans.
- 1960s fears of post-apocalyptic worlds in the future. -
Logan's Run
After a nuclear war in the future, people live in a city where everyone dies at the age of 30. People who escape are hunted down by Sandmen and killed. A sandman named logan is forced to find sanctury in a place where people have supposedly escaped.
- around the 1960/70s people feared nuclear war, and the impact of destruction that nuclear weapons could have on our world. -
The Terminator
A cyborg terminator from the year 2029 is sent back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor, who will one day be a mother of a son that will lead the resistence movement against the evil cyborg's leaders of the future.
- Influenced by the fear of technological advances turning on us and taking over - 1980s -
28 Days Later
28 days after a mysterious virus spreads throughout the United Kingdom, a group of survivors try to survive the incurable disease.
- Plays on the fears of 'playing god' and science medelling with nature. -
The Day After Tomorrow
The world suffers catastrophic effects of global warming. Sam (son of a climatologist) and his friends try to survive in New York with the freezing cold temperatures of an ice age while his father sets himself a mission to reach them.
- As warnings of global warming increase, this post-apocalyptic film brings fourth the fears people feel about envrionmental disasters if we continue to be unsustainable.
