10 Movie Dystopias That Should've Happened By Now

Predating the kind of gloomy sci-fi pictures that greeted the end of the millennium, this 1983 Italian Mad Max knock-off takes place in 2019, twenty years after conflict between the Pan-American Alliance (good guys) and a Euro-Afro-Asian contingent calling themselves the Eurac Monarchy (bad guys) led to the Earth being “reduced to a garbage-strewn radioactive desert inhabited by humans devoid of all hope for a future.”

Now under Eurac rule, New York City has become a killing ground, a place where Euracs hunt and kill any survivors, who for some reason are still dressed in 1980s fashions. Fans of this sort of thing will also swear that they’ve seen the sets used in several other movies.

With the population rendered sterile courtesy of radiation, there hasn’t been a child born in fifteen years, so the Pan-Am President (Edmund Purdom) sends road warrior Parsifal (Michael Sopkiw) to rescue the world’s last fertile woman. If she’s young enough, Purdom reasons, her ovaries may contain as many as five hundred unfertilized eggs with which they can repopulate the planet.