10 Utterly Bleak Post Apocalyptic Movie Worlds

This Korean version of a French comic went a little under the radar on release, despite being in English and starring Captain America. Eight years later, though, director Bong Joon-ho's Parasite Oscar glory, and a glossy new TV adaptation have made led to a whole new audience for its icily harsh future world.

While superficially not all that similar to Bong's later Oscar hit, Snowpiercer is also a satirical take on class divides, poverty and privilege, haves and have-nots. Only this time it takes place on board a giant train racing through a frozen world, with the only survivors of the climate apocalypse aboard.

With stepping outside the safety of the train meaning being frozen solid within moments, everyone alive is at the mercy of the sealed railway world and the tyrants that run it.

Sure, if you're one of the handful of rich people in the front then you can while away the snow-bound apocalypse with fancy dinners and clubbing. Most of us, though, would be stuck in the back, eating bugs in carriages of overcrowded squalor, getting our children taken into slave labour.