12 Best Movies About The End Of The World

Potentially delving into spoiler territory with this entry but the original Planet of the Apes movie has been out since 1968. Even though its spoiler statute of limitations has expired, we will try our best to not give away the ending. The chances are that you're already familiar with the franchise due to its brilliant 21st-century trilogy. The gist is that apes are the dominant species on a planet (which planet we cannot say) and humans have to deal with it. Dealing with it doesn't mean finishing second in the school sprint. It means being the subservient species.

If ever there was an actor born to play the role of a man who hates being told what to do, it's Charlton Heston. The future five-time National Rifle Association president stars as an astronaut who is rudely awoken from his deep hibernation after the spaceship he's snoozing in crash lands on a mysterious planet in the year 3978. It's a planet that he can breathe on without a spacesuit. It looks familiar but there's one big difference: Apes are running the show now and they're doing it on horseback with whips and nets. It is at times sincerely distressing.

Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling wrote the script only for Fox to have it re-written as his vision was going to cost too much money. They did keep one thing though: The damned dirty ending that we managed to not spoil.