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Entries Tagged as 'End of the world'

28 Days Later (2002)

August 31st, 2008 · 3 Comments

Synopsis
Animal rights activists infiltrate the “Cambridge Primate Research Centre” to find a chimpanzee being monitored for its reaction to civil unrest on TV monitors. Ignoring warnings that the animals have been infected with “rage,” the activists unlock the cages. One of them is bitten. Going into convulsions and vomiting blood, she then […]

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Tags: Beasts and monsters · Dreams and visions · End of the world · Military

The Thing (1982)

April 3rd, 2008 · 6 Comments

Synopsis
In Antarctica, a Siberian Husky races across the ice with a helicopter in pursuit, shooting at it. The dog reaches a United States research station […]

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Tags: Ambiguous ending · Based on short story · Beasts and monsters · Cult favorite · End of the world · Forensic evidence · Paranoia

Testament (1983)

March 28th, 2008 · No Comments

Synopsis
In the town of “Hamlin,” Tom Wetherly (William Devane) presses his 12-year-old son Brad (Ross Harris) to keep up with him on their morning bicycle ride. Tom’s teenage daughter Mary Liz (Roxanne Zal) […]

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Tags: Ambiguous ending · Based on short story · End of the world · Mother/daughter relationship · Mother/son relationship

Donnie Darko (2001)

March 25th, 2008 · 11 Comments

Synopsis
Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal) wakes to find himself in the middle of a road overlooking “Middlesex,” Virginia. Over dinner, his older sister (Maggie Gyllenhaal) stuns their father (Holmes Osborne) with the news that she’s voting for Dukakis. Brother […]

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Tags: Ambiguous ending · Brother/sister relationship · Cult favorite · End of the world · High school · No opening credits · Paranoia · Psychoanalysis