Henshin!Headlines for 2005: 12/17/05: DVD Review ZERO WOMAN: RED HANDCUFFS Ass-Kicking, Eye-Gouging, Bone-Breaking Female Super Cop on R1 DVD! Author: August Ragone. Index International Design Exhibition Index International Design ExhibitionDubai. Annual trade exhibition for the textile, furniture and interior design and. If you have a movie you’d like to see reviewed for next years Monster Madness, leave a comment and let us know! Just make sure it’s something we have. The Misaimed Marketing trope as used in popular culture. Executives are a superstitious, cowardly lot. They're always worrying about their 'next big thing' List of apocalyptic and post- apocalyptic fiction. This is a list of apocalyptic and post- apocalyptic fiction works as portrayed in literature, film, television, and, comics. Post- apocalyptic fiction is set in a world or civilization after such a disaster. The time frame may be immediately after the catastrophe, focusing on the travails or psychology of survivors, or considerably later, often including the theme that the existence of pre- catastrophe civilization has been forgotten (or mythologized). Apocalypse is a Greek word referring to the end of the world. Films with Polar, Antarctic, or Arctic themes. FICTION FILMS Pole Year Title Comments Topic; N: 1912 : Conquest of the Pole : France; George Melies. Cerez Cervotocinu s.Morganam Freemanam (4 seria iz 8) 2010 x264 BDRip(720p) Soliaris Safe Haven DVDRip avi RM Arts A.History of the Organ 3of4 The Golden Age x264 AC3. The devil appears frequently as a character in works of literature and popular culture. In Christianity, the figure of the devil, Satan, or Lucifer personifies evil. This is a list of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction works as portrayed in literature, film, television, and, comics. Apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of. Apocalypticism is the religious belief that there will be an apocalypse, a term which originally referred to a revelation of God's will, but now usually refers to belief that the world will come to an end very soon, even within one's own lifetime. A threat of an apocalypse does not make a piece of fiction apocalyptic. The films Armageddon and Deep Impact, for example, are not considered apocalyptic fiction because, although earth and/or human- kind are terribly threatened, in the end they manage to avoid destruction. Apocalyptic fiction is not the same as fiction that provides visions of a dystopian future. George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty- Four, for example, is dystopian fiction, not apocalyptic fiction. Works of apocalyptic and post- apocalyptic fiction. A deranged university chemistry student creates what turns out to be an . The film's original director, Boris Sagal, died in a freak mishap during filming, and was replaced by his successor, David Greene. The teleplay was written by Robert L. Joseph. Game. 19. War. Missile Command. Arcade video game designed by Dave Theurer and developed by Atari, Inc. Later ported to many different home computing and gaming platforms, for many years afterward. Considered one of the most notable classic video games of all time. Film. 19. 59. Eco, monsters. The Giant Behemoth. A growing nation of genetically evolved apes is threatened by a band of human survivors of a devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier. The game takes place 4. Radical- 6, has exterminated almost the entire human civilization. Radio. 19. 51. War. The Last Objective. Written by Paul Carter and adapted by Ernest Kinoy for NBC Radio's 1. Dimension X. A military android questions its continued existence, after the last of its human comrade- counterparts dies out from the effects of a mysterious doomsday super- weapon that was unleashed at the end of a generations- long global atomic war. Novel. 19. 70. Supernatural, war, eco, human decline. The Late, Great Planet Earth. Bestselling blockbuster Bible prophecy- based . A Battlestar Galactica- esque 3- D space shooter video game for MS- DOS and other contemporary (at that time) personal computing platforms. Game. 19. 80. War. Nuke. War. Published by gaming company Avalon Hill. A turn- based strategy game for many early home computing platforms, such as the Apple II, the Commodore 6. Atari 4. 00/8. 00 model home computers. Television. 19. 75- 1. Eco (nuclear waste explosion on the moon, followed by earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, etc. A domestic banking crisis (the result of defaulted debts in South America) triggers a chain of events in the Persian Gulf that eventually would lead to the outbreak of nuclear World War III between the Western and Eastern Bloc Cold War superpowers. Television. 19. 94. Aliens, impact event. Without Warning. Directed by Robert Iscove, and originally broadcast over the CBS television network. Game. 19. 98. Aliens, technology (cyberwarfare)Red Baron 2. Written in Quick. BASIC by amateur video game developer Adam Stanchos, for MS- DOS. In this game, the player is a 2. Earth from xenophobic alien invasion, which would (in the event of the player's failure/demise) result in the genocidal annihilation of mankind. Developed by Scott Host, for Cygnus Games (now Mountain King Studios). However, his actions could have serious repercussions for the mutated descendants of the human race. Novel. 19. 90. Divine prophecy. Good Omens. Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. Story. 19. 49. War. Lest Ye Die)Cicely Hamilton. Lansdale. Comic. 19. War. Battle Angel Alita. Yukito Kishiro - manga series containing post- apocalyptic elements and taking place in a highly futuristic dystopian world. Comic. 20. 00- 2. Impact event, war. Battle Angel Alita: Last Order. Yukito Kishiro - a continuation of the former manga series containing the same elements as previous but goes into greater detail as to how the dystopia came about. Novel. 19. 13. Disease. Goslings: A World of Women. Beresford - A global plague has decimated England's male population and the once- predictable Gosling family is now free to fulfill its long- frustrated desires. Novel. 18. 05. Human decline. Le Dernier Homme. Jean- Baptiste Cousin de Grainville - regarded as the first story of modern speculative fiction to depict the end of the world. Aliens. Comic. 19. War. Kamandi. Featuring the Last Boy on Earth series, first published in 1. Comic. 20. 00- 2. War. Saikano. Shin Takahashi - manga series. Comic. 19. 90- 1. War. The Last American. Series originally from Marvel in 1. Com. XComic. 20. 04. War. The Punisher: The End. Comic. 19. 92- War. X/1. 99. 9Clamp - ongoing manga series. Song. 19. 92. War. By 2. 55. 2, almost all of the human colonies are destroyed and the Covenant are attacking Earth. Game. 20. 07- Aliens. Crysis. Crytek - A near future where an ancient alien spacecraft has been discovered beneath the ground on an island in the East Philippines sea. Novel. 19. 28, 1. Eco. Deluge and Dawn. S. Fowler Wright - A huge flood devastates the world; only the English Midlands survive. Novel. 19. 73, 1. Eco. Children of Morrow and Treasures of Morrow. H. Hoover - set in California several centuries after pollution has all but wiped out the human race; published in 1. Novel. 20. 02- 2. Eco. The Snowfall Trilogy. Mitchell Smith - novel trilogy comprising Snowfall, Kingdom River, and Moonrise. North America has retreated into hunter- gatherer societies and military kingdoms some 5. Novel. 19. 95/2. 00. Eco. The Mara and Dann novels. Doris Lessing - Mara and Dann, and sequel: Story of General Dann and Mara's Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog, are set in a future ice age. Other Lessing novels like Memoirs of a Survivor and Shikasta deal with apocalyptic themes. Novel. 19. 94- 2. Eco. Greatwinter trilogy. Sean Mc. Mullen - trilogy comprising Souls in the Great Machine, The Miocene Arrow, and Eyes of the Calculator. The first book was originally published as two books, starting in 1. An ancient whale species recreated through a genetic experiment turns out to have been telepathic, and the whales issue a telepathic call which cause most of humanity and other large land mammals to walk into the oceans and drown. Game. 20. 07. Technology. Toxic. Nitrome Limited - flash game by about a character in a yellow hazmat suit attempting to free the world from a race of robots with a variety of bombs. A sequel, Toxic 2, was released in 2. Radio. 20. 05. Technology. Humans Are Dead. Flight of the Conchords. Song. 19. 80. Technology. Only the nobles possess futuristic ships, and the richest have domed cities where the debilitated earth can still support life. Wolves are proclaimed extinct, but found a way to enchant humans. Five wolves are on a quest to find 'Paradise', along with a Flower- Maiden, who was created from a Lunar Flower by a Noble. A second apocalypse ends the series, with a presumable renewing of the planet. Four of the five characters are seen in the renewed world. Television. 20. 02. Human decline. The Future Is Wild. Uses computer animation to simulate the sort of creatures that may evolve from present- day animals. In the world depicted in the series, the human race has left Earth to colonize the stars. The future descendants of humanity have sent probes back to Earth to record what has become of it. Novel. 19. 80- 1. Human decline. The Book of the New Sun. Gene Wolfe - novel series. Novel. 19. 53. Human decline. Childhood's End. Arthur C. Clarke. Novel. 19. Human decline. Friday. Robert A. Heinlein - human society on a future Earth is slipping into a gradual, but inevitable, collapse. Novel. 19. 85. Human decline. Gal. Much to the dismay of the only male left, the women of the island continue the human species for thousands of years where they evolve into seal- like creatures. Novel. 19. 63. Human decline. Planet of the Apes. Pierre Boulle. Novel. Human decline. Biomega. And followed manga. NOi. SE, Blame! Published between 2. Novel. 19. 82- Human decline. The Dark Tower Series. Stephen King. First book published in 1. Story. 19. 56. Human decline. To Serve The Master. Philip K. Dick. Television. Future collapse. Andromeda. Created by Gene Roddenberry; ran between 2. Television. 19. 88- 1. Future collapse. Red Dwarf. The British science- fiction sitcom; first ran between 1. Novel. 19. 53. Future collapse. Against the Fall of Night. Arthur C. Clarke. Novel. 19. 56. Future collapse. The City and the Stars. Arthur C. Clarke. Novel. 19. 63. Future collapse. The Dragon Masters. Jack Vance. Novel. Future collapse. Endymion. Dan Simmons - a sequel The Rise of Endymion. Novel. 19. 74. Future collapse. The Mote in God's Eye. Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle. Novel. 19. 96- 2. Future collapse. Trigun. Manga by Yasuhiro Nightow, published between 1. Novel. 19. 94- 1. Future collapse. Reaches. David Drake, published between 1. Novel. 19. 59. Future collapse. Transfusion. Chad Oliver. Novel. 19. 70. Future collapse. Ringworld. Larry Niven - An expedition from earth to find a futuristic planet, a ring surrounding a star, results in the members finding that a meteor puncture in the ring's floor and power failure caused the cities to break apart and civilization to collapse. Novel. 19. 79- 1. Future collapse. Last Legionary. Series by Douglas Hill - a lone soldier fights to bring down the organisation which unleashed a deadly radiation against his planet, killing all his people and rendering the planet uninhabitable. Novel. 19. 63. Future collapse. Space Viking. H. Beam Piper. Novel. 19. 91- 1.
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