This is one out of left field for you all. Try googling religious apocalypse films. Then pick your jaw back up off the floor before God sees you and thinks youre taking the mickey. There are a scary number of B-movies out there about the end times. It seems that Christians really enjoy making and watching films where theyre proved right over and over. The oddly violent Left Behind series of sixteen bestselling novels about the final days after the Rapture, when the Antichrist is given the world to use as a chew toy as Gods judgement (at least, we think thats the idea there are a lot of theologists with a lot of opinions on the subject, and frankly theyre best left to it) has been adapted into a trilogy of films which is currently in the process of being rebooted into a bigger budget franchise. In the meantime, theres the A Thief In The Night series of four films, a different take on the same Christian armageddon scenario, and The Moment After trilogy, about well, you may have guessed already. Hollywood's had a crack at it too, with the Prophecy movies allowing Christopher Walken to play a sarcastic archangel, which is something to actually thank God for. Meanwhile recent comedy This Is The End is a less faithful and goofier look at the same subject; but all essentially involve all the best people in the world being teleported to heaven and God abandoning the earth to the Devil as a punishment: which may be a wet dream to fundamentalists, but is several different kinds of grotesquely horrifying to the rest of us. Its the fact that this is divinely ordained that is so awful about the Christian apocalypse, aside from all the, you know, horror and death and Antichrist-sitting-on-a-throne-of-skulls thing. Every other apocalypse on this list is the result of something going horribly wrong and some of these cataclysms can even be fixed but this this is all Gods plan
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