Need More Creepy Apocalyptic/Post-Apocalyptic Videos!
November 29, 2015 2:53 PM Subscribe
Last night on a whim, I revisited This Is My Milwaukee, which in turn led to That Mitchell and Webb Look's Quiz Broadcast sketches, and now... I need more.
While books, comics, etc. are appreciated, I'm primarily looking for videos and movies that capture the absurdist, creeping dread that both of the linked videos evoke. Zombieland and its ilk are close, but a bit too polished and self-aware. Is there anything else out there like this? Anything you could throw my way would be appreciated.
While books, comics, etc. are appreciated, I'm primarily looking for videos and movies that capture the absurdist, creeping dread that both of the linked videos evoke. Zombieland and its ilk are close, but a bit too polished and self-aware. Is there anything else out there like this? Anything you could throw my way would be appreciated.
Best answer: Not exactly postapocalyptic, but eerie in a kind of magical realism way, and very similar in feel: Look Around You
Different feel, but the same kind of eerie fantastical documentary thing:
Here's a trailer for Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg.
Not all of Maddin's movies fit your criteria, but some of them do. Night Mayor (this is the complete short film) seems like it might as well.
I'm don't care for the podcast Welcome to Nightvale (it's a little too self-conscious or something), but a lot of people really, really like it and it seems to fit most of your criteria except for media.
I swear I've got about fifty other recommendations on the tip of my tongue, but I can't think of them right now. But if any of those things are on the right track, I might be able to remember some others. I love stuff like this.
posted by ernielundquist at 4:19 PM on November 29, 2015
Different feel, but the same kind of eerie fantastical documentary thing:
Here's a trailer for Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg.
Not all of Maddin's movies fit your criteria, but some of them do. Night Mayor (this is the complete short film) seems like it might as well.
I'm don't care for the podcast Welcome to Nightvale (it's a little too self-conscious or something), but a lot of people really, really like it and it seems to fit most of your criteria except for media.
I swear I've got about fifty other recommendations on the tip of my tongue, but I can't think of them right now. But if any of those things are on the right track, I might be able to remember some others. I love stuff like this.
posted by ernielundquist at 4:19 PM on November 29, 2015
Response by poster: Ah! Yes. Look Around You definitely has the feel I'm looking for, if not the creepiness. Scarfolk also has it.
WTNV was perfect for the first episode or two and then lost me when they stopped the vagueness.
posted by daikaisho at 4:32 PM on November 29, 2015 [1 favorite]
WTNV was perfect for the first episode or two and then lost me when they stopped the vagueness.
posted by daikaisho at 4:32 PM on November 29, 2015 [1 favorite]
Perhaps the League Of Gentlemen? That particular clip maybe doesn't get the feel across, but a lot of the tone is a darkly comic Wicker Man type.
posted by Jon Mitchell at 5:00 PM on November 29, 2015
posted by Jon Mitchell at 5:00 PM on November 29, 2015
Psychoville and Inside No. 9, both by members of League of Gentlemen, also explore this territory. Inside No. 9 is an anthology series so the episodes stand alone and can vary in tone, but the first and last episodes of the first series are a good place to start for creeping horror.
Also This Is Jinsy, a comical take on an Orwellian island with some very odd habits.
posted by Gortuk at 4:55 AM on November 30, 2015
Also This Is Jinsy, a comical take on an Orwellian island with some very odd habits.
posted by Gortuk at 4:55 AM on November 30, 2015
Not sure if it's quite what you're looking for, but I'm in a "post-apocalyptic martial arts action adventure" web series, called "Swords of Insurgency".
posted by ObscureReferenceMan at 9:21 AM on November 30, 2015
posted by ObscureReferenceMan at 9:21 AM on November 30, 2015
A couple of Jeunet movies are like this: City of Lost Children, Delicatessen and (appartently) Micmacs (haven't seen that one yet). Also, Brasil?
posted by Brittanie at 9:48 AM on November 30, 2015
posted by Brittanie at 9:48 AM on November 30, 2015
For the "etc" category, I just saw this on Projects: If You Are Reading This ...
posted by Room 641-A at 3:18 PM on November 30, 2015
posted by Room 641-A at 3:18 PM on November 30, 2015
This thread is closed to new comments.
posted by Captain_Science at 3:26 PM on November 29, 2015