Scariest Apocalypse/Nuclear War Movie

The Day After was on last night. Still seems to be just as scary today as it was when I first saw it in the theater. So it got me thinking...what are the scariest "world ends" movies that you've ever seen?

Aside from The Day After, I think Dawn of the Dead and 28 Days Later are pretty great, too.

 

Wasn't The Day After a TV movie?

I didn't even see it and it freaked me out for weeks. Of course, I was 10.

There was a pretty good world ending movie starring Anthony Edwards in the late '80s. I think it was called "Miracle Mile." It scared me because *SPOILER* it ended with the world actually ending.

"Night of the Comet" always scared the hell out of me too.

 

Don't know if anyone ever saw it, but The Children's Hour, while not an apocalypse movie, was an after-the-fact thing when the communists took over America. Very frightening from a different perspective.

 

"Threads" made "The Day After" look like The Muppet Movie.

 

It was a TV movie in the states and the UK, and presented in some theaters outside the states. I actually think it was in some theaters in the UK, too. I saw it in a theater in Toronto. A lot of people walked out very disturbed.

 

No mentions of Red Dawn yet? WTF?

 

hey, we won that war!

 

Thank God for those eight kids! Well, except for the shithead who turned on us and was murdered by Ponyboy.

I love Red Dawn, but holy smokes, that was a poor motion picture.

 

Aren't those all zombie movies?

 

Dr Stranglove

 

Escape From New York

 

28 Days Later isn't.