12 Best Movies About The End Of The World
2. The Road
Bleak as hell, The Road will not make you feel optimistic about the apocalypse. Maybe that's the point. Maybe the apocalypse wouldn't be fun at all. We don't wanna commit but it's definitely a maybe. A father and son are trying to survive in a version of America that resembles a wasteland. An extinction event has occurred and wiped out most of the living things on the planet, plants and all. As the title of the movie might suggest, the film follows their hopeful journey to the coast. With no way of knowing what it's like there, the father can only guess it's warmer and easier.
A cold film, The Road puts viewers in the depths of winter with its protagonists. It's miserable and grey, and if this wasn't bad enough, there are cannibals to worry about as well. Seriously, if the nuclear holocaust was ever on the cards, the men pushing those big red nuke buttons should sit down and watch this. Nobody wants this.
Adapted from Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, it features amazing performances from Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee. Both are playing characters so out of their depth in this crazy world that it's impossible not to root for them to find a sanctuary of sorts. Sure, it's bleak, but it's also brilliant.