10 Utterly Bleak Post Apocalyptic Movie Worlds

Much higher budget than Threads, but no less depressing, here's another gritty vision of Britain in the end times. In this case, however, it's not a large scale nuclear attack that has left the country in ruins. Instead it's a fertility crisis.

An end to children being born promises to be a global extinction event far more complete than could be achieved by atomic bombs or a robot uprising. With no new babies in a generation, the world of Children Of Men is one that has realised there is no hope for the future, so why build or plan beyond today?

And that kind of doom-laden outlook is one that leads to the streets becoming war zones and the government instigating a police state, with whole towns becoming grand scale concentration camps.

Of course, the idea of total global infertility is pure fantasy. Which means that this imagined 2020s Britain in which the country has suffered the ravages of a deadly pandemic, is increasingly cut off from the wider world and has a government which treats refugees and asylum seekers with callous inhumanity is a work of fiction. Only perhaps not quite fiction enough.