10 Utterly Bleak Post Apocalyptic Movie Worlds
6. 9
Astonishingly bleak for what is ostensibly a kids' movie, "stitchpunk" animated feature 9 takes place in the ruins of a world in which literally all humanity has been wiped out. And not in a Wall-E sort of way where they're actually just off getting fat on a luxury interstellar cruise ship. This really is a post-human universe.
9 takes place in an alternate 1930s Europe in which a fascist dictator has pushed an inventor to create an artificial intelligence to build machines for his war effort. Building Nazi Skynet goes about as well as you might expect. Life on Earth is wiped out with an efficiency that would be the envy of the actual Skynet.
By the time of the movie's setting even most of the war machines have powered down and started to rust, leaving only a handful of patched together monstrosities that look like the creations of the Brothers Quay or Sid from Toy Story.
When the only hope of any human soul or culture surviving exists in a handful of ragdolls then you know things have got pretty grim.