See The Ultimate End Of The World Movie Supercut

By David Wharton | Updated 3 hours ago

When it comes to the end of the world, no one does it better than Hollywood. Over the years, major studios have come up with all manner of doomsday scenarios, with new and creative (sometimes) ways for humans to meet their impending demise. Aliens, storms, asteroids, machines, pollution, vampires—it’s all on the table here.

We aren’t sure what it says about us that we keep returning to stories about humanity being destroyed — or destroying itself — but it’s a lot easier to understand Hollywood’s fascination with the subject.

Let’s face it: watching recognizable landmarks get obliterated in a variety of violent ways…that’s just a good time.

And sometimes, with movies, you want to just cut to the chase and see things get obliterated. Great news. That’s exactly what we get with the end-of-the-world supercut. It’s 38 disasters in three minutes.

Sure, it isn’t the music choice in the whole world, but the images speak for themselves. Nukes, zombies, and a Big Red Button, we get it all.

Since this end of the world supercut, there have been more movies to come along that fit right into the mold. Frankly, it will probably take the actual end of the world for Hollywood to stop churning these out. It’s just a target-rich environment for stories, special effects, and big screen shenanigans to ever give up the premise. Plus, humans have such a weird fascination with the premise that there isn’t likely to be a shortage of folks going out to theaters or turning it on a streaming service.

So no worries there folks.

For the record, here’s the full list of movies used in the video. And again, a new end-of-the-world supercut would have even more to add to the list.

• 2012
• Armageddon
• Deep Impact
• The Rapture
• The Day After Tomorrow
• The Road
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day
• Independence Day
• Children of Men
• The Matrix
• Blindness
• Day of the Dead
• 28 Weeks Later
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
• 4:44 Last Day on Earth
• The Day After
• Last Night
• Beneath the Planet of the Apes
• Kaboom
• A Boy & His Dog
• Delicatessen
• I Am Legend
• Planet of the Apes
• Resident Evil
• Night of the Living Dead
• Miracle Mile
• Save the Green Planet
• Vanishing on 7th Street
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
• Knowing
• Zombieland
• Dead or Alive: Hanzaisha
• Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
• Sunshine
• The Quiet Earth
• WALL·E
• On the Beach
• Melancholia

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