Hello all.

I am looking for similar movies to these:

Dawn of the Dead
The Mist
The Happening
Infestation
Eight Legged Freaks
Blindness
28 Days Later
Children of Men
etc

I am looking for movies that center around urban/modern survival. For example, some of the movies I've mentioned focuses on the last remnants of humanity holding up in a shopping mall or an office building of some sort. Other elements include scrounging for food in supermarkets, finding working technology, living without electricity, living in a hostile urban jungle, ransacking empty houses and malls, etc.

I am specifically looking for films that it set early after "the disaster." Nothing like Mad Max, or anything that emphasizes that a long time has passed ever since "the disaster".

Suggestions please.

I love post-apocalypse films, though more a few years later than early after the event. For what you want, I'd recommend-

Night of the Comet
The Stand
One Night Stand
The World, the Flesh, and the Devil

First of all, I implore you to do something about The Happening. Now, you're going to need some fire retardant clothing. I appreciate you may have seen this 'movie' in the cinema, or otherwise 'virtually'. You may even have downloaded it legally, or illegally, but in any case a hard copy is what you want for the cleansing process you unwittingly signed up for when you watched this rubbish. Firstly, just throw the DVD in your nearest trash receptacle. Just chuck it in with dismissive abandon -no need to check if any domestic pets are around, for you don't need to be violent about it. The more care free, the better, as it will ensure a safe and tidy dismissal of the said DVD. Unfortunately, you're going to realise that this gesture was not enough; in fact, it was so inadequate you're going to get worked up all over again about the whole experience of watching the film. You'll a think a while on how badly acted, written, edited, and explained it was. You'll become gradually more and more incensed about the small window of time during which you actually considered its unexplained mystery worth pondering. Quite angry by this point, you'll tremble a little when you reflect on the moment you realised there WAS NO MYSTERY, just hokum, and a lot of it. Well, you're furious now, and you're cradling your trash can as you storm outside and empty its contents on the ground, in full view of the neighbours. Possessed, you're pouring lighter fluid on the makeshift funeral pyre (amongst its contents, some back issues of Variety). You plant a stepladder next to the trash pile, and climb up it whilst dropping a lit match on the accursed refuse below. The fire has really worked up some steam now, but when you jump down on it your action is not some belated concession to health and safety. No, it is an act of primal rage. As the dwindling flames flicker about your ankles, you jump up and down on the trash, again and again, wildly enough to let innocent bystanders know you really ARE crazy. But hopefully this has proven a therapeutic act, and you can go on with your life now.

If this thread didn't so desperately have the ring of a last-minute school project about it, I'd recommend you play video games to get your end-of-the-world fix. Fallout 3 hosts unbroken hours of scrounging in dilapidated stores for resources as novel as Iguanas-on-a-stick and irradiated coke. But given we don't want to get you in trouble with teach, here's my recommendations:

Testament (1983)
Time of the Wolf (2003)
War of the Worlds (2005)
Shame (1968)
Weekend (1967)
One Night Stand (1997)
Stalker (1979)
Children of Men (2006)
Dawn of the Dead (the 1970s one; you know, the one that was actually good)
Land of the Dead (scrounging in stores aplenty)
Maximum Overdrive
Waterworld

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Originally posted by crazed:
I love post-apocalypse films, though more a few years later than early after the event. For what you want, I'd recommend-

Night of the Comet
The Stand
One Night Stand
The World, the Flesh, and the Devil

The Stand is classic. I'd throw in another TV movie, "The Day After". It's available on DVD and it's a classic. It has one of most intense leading-up-to-the-moment scenes that I've ever seen.

As anyone ever seen "Threads"? It's supposed to be a classic. I've been meaning to see it for years, but just haven't had a chance to yet.