10 Apocalypse Horror Movies That Don't Involve Zombies

Borrowing from the very real past, disaster thriller Greenland poses a question that any former dinosaur-obsessed child has surely asked, and then not really wanted to think about: remember that asteroid that wiped out nearly every species? What if that happened again?

Greenland, much like 2021’s satirical disaster-comedy Don’t Look Up, depicts a startlingly blase and probably quite accurate response to the knowledge of an impending comet crash from your everyday Americans. Meaning, people care only so much as to plan a neighbourhood watch party. While the comet is initially expected to only pass near to our planet, with any fragments hitting the sea, it instead lands smack bang in the middle of Florida, with many more fragments due to land on a direct collision course with earth and destroy much of it.

Worldwide panic and mayhem ensue, and the rest of the narrative follows one family in their desperate journey to get to a place of safety, which some have figured out may well be the country Greenland, as the rich and powerful have all headed there. What follows is a genuinely distressing imagining of the last days on earth, and the small-scale struggle of individuals to survive in the face of near-total destruction, that provides spectacle, scares, and introspection into who and what decides which of us are considered worth saving.