Pandemic films

[zed]

To take our minds off the current issues

Anyone has any recs that I should check out?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Films_about_viral_outbreaks
from this list I have seen and rated,

bolded are must watches

9/10 12 Monkeys
7/10 28 Days Later
6/10 28 Weeks Later
7/10 The Andromeda Strain (film)
6/10 Cabin Fever (2002)
4/10 Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever (2009)
4/10 Carriers (2009)
5/10 The Crazies (2010)
3/10 The Crazies (1973)
7/10 Doomsday (2008)
5/10 Dreamcatcher (2003)
8/10 Ebola Syndrome (1996)
5/10 I Am Legend (2007)
6/10 I Drink Your Blood (1970)
4/10 The Invasion (2007)
6/10 It Comes At Night (2017)
6/10 The Last Man on Earth (1964)
8/10 The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
7/10 The Ωmega Man (1971)
6/10 Outbreak (1995)
3/10 Pandemic (2007)
4/10 Planet Terror (2007)
7/10 Pontypool (2008)
6/10 Quarantine (2008)
7/10 Rabid (1977)
5/10 Resident Evil (2002)
5/10 Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)
4/10 Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)
5/10 Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016)
5/10 Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
7/10 Shivers (1975)
3/10 The Stand (1994)
8/10 Variola vera (1982)
6/10 Virus (1980)
5/10 World War Z (2013)
3/10 Zoombies (2016)

others
5/10 REC (2007)
7/10 [Rec] 2 (2009)
5/10 [REC] 3: Genesis (2012)
3/10 The Thaw (2009)
7/10 Contracted (2013)
5/10 Contracted: Phase II (2015)
6/10 Afflicted (2013)
7/10 The Girl with All the Gifts (2016)
4/10 Mimic (1997)
6/10 Mulberry St (2006)
4/10 The Grapes of Death (1978)
5/10 Salvage (I) (2009)
7/10 The Ruins (2008)
7/10 Train to Busan (2016)
4/10 Pandorum (2009)
5/10 Cooties (2014)
3/10 Growth (2010)
8/10 Slither (2006)
7/10 Splinter (I) (2008)
6/10 Mayhem (2017)

hmm some of these maybe more zombie than plague films, eg train to buscan, not really what I want to see

 

[entity279]

I'd forward the fact that watching e.g. My Little Pony episodes works better for taking our minds off the current issues

 

[Malo]

28 Days Later, REC and Train to Busan should be considered must watch, they're considered some of the best in the genre.

The original Cabin Fever was quite good, Pontypool is a very interesting watch, quite different. Slither is a really fun monster-comedy. Pandorum I really enjoyed as well. The Andromeda Strain is an excellent intelligent classic.

A few there I haven't seen, I'd like to check them out. Thanks for the list.

 

[orangpelupa]

The girl with all the gift is basically the last of us the movie

 

[hoom]

Definitely the first 4 in that list.
Make sure you watch the original '70s Andromeda Strain not the more recent lame version.

 

[Michellstar]

Outbreak movies to take our minds off?

Contagion
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1598778/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

No zombies, the real real.

 

[zed]

Outbreak movies to take our minds off?

Contagion
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1598778/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

No zombies, the real real.

Starring Gwyneth Paltrow I see, she also makes an appearance in the lyrics of a song I’m writing about covid19

We can be sure science will save us now
If that fails we have Gwyneth Paltrow

 

[Deleted member 2197]

The tv series "The Strain" was fairly decent ... viral outbreak, vampires and on location in NYC.

 

[Malo]

The tv series "The Strain" was fairly decent ... viral outbreak, vampires and on location in NYC.

That was a great series IMO, glad they finished it instead of like many series just cancelled.

 

[Michellstar]

We can be sure science will save us now
If that fails we have Gwyneth Paltrow

She can sell some vagina odored candles for the aftermath of the epidemic

 

[BRiT]

7/10 The Girl with All the Gifts (2016)

I'm watching this now [Netflix] and finding it quite enjoyable. I don't know how I missed it the first time around.

 

[Mariner]

The book was enjoyable enough (extremely silly denouement, however), but I just had to give up 5 minutes into the movie. That might be me, however. I'm generally not particularly bothered with adaptations of books I've already read as they tend to disappoint.

 

[zed]

I just Watched Mayhem (2017) ok film if you like 'the purge' like films, Its got one of the actors from
Burning (2018) which is decent if you like a korean film more in the style of a japanese film

 

[Malo]

Peninsula, a sequel to Train to Busan was just announced for release in August. Same writer and director of the original excellent film but this new one looks far more action-focused than I remember the original being. Maybe I should watch it again. Maybe it's just the trailer as well focusing on the action because it's necessary with audiences.

 

[AlphaWolf]

Ghosts of Mars 2001

 

[Arnold Beckenbauer]

Outbreak movies to take our minds off?

Contagion
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1598778/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

No zombies, the real real.

Contagion - one year later...

 

[John_4878]

I'd like to add World War Z to this list.

 

[hoom]

Contagion is actually super spookily on point.
Its a 2011 movie so riffing on trends from SARS/Swineflu & astute observations on political trends.

 

[dobwal]

If you want to see Arnold Schwarzenegger's finest performance as an actor, there is Maggie (the movie as whole is okay).

 

[Davros]

I'm going to disagree with that and say his finest performance was The Terminator I dont think anyone could have played that part as well as he did.