Apocalyptic Media to Binge

We’ve been quarantined only a week or so and so many of us are unironically binge watching and reading apocalyptic movies and literature.

It brings a weird comfort. Maybe some how-to manuals. Sometimes a laugh at how unrealistic it is.

Apocalyptic Media to Binge

Movies

My kids couldn’t finish Outbreak, they said it was too real. We’ve watched lots of these end of the world movies. We love aliens, zombies, sci-fi, and fantasy.

• Outbreak
• 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later
• Contagion
• 12 Monkeys
• Patient Zero
• 2012
• The Day After Tomorrow
• I am Legend
• Children of Men
• Cabin Fever
• Planet of the Apes (original series)
• Planet of the Apes (new series)
• The Andromeda Strain
• The Maze Runner series
• Divergent series
• Hunger Games trilogy
• Love in The Time of Cholera
• The Horseman on the Roof
• Logan’s Run
• Resident Evil collection
• 9
• The Book of Eli
• Knowing
• World War Z
• Mad Max and Fury Road
• Night of the Living Dead
• Dawn of the Dead (original)
• Dawn of the Dead (new)
• Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, and Army of Darkness

Books

We do read alouds in our homeschool every weekday morning.

We’re reading We Make the Road by Walking by Brian McLaren. We’re finishing up our Year 4 history with the last 25 years and it’s so hard, y’all.

Many of these selections are also on my Dystopian Book List.

• MaddAddam Trilogy by Margaret Atwood
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• anything by Robin Cook
• The Eyes of Darkness by Dean Koontz
• The Stand by Stephen King
• The Running Man by Richard Bachman
• Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon
• The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
• Parable of the Sower Series by Octavia Butler
• Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Logan’s Run Trilogy by William F. Nolan & George Clayton Johnson
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• 1984 by George Orwell
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
• The Children of Men by PD James
• I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
• We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• Wanderers by Chuck Wendig
• Divergent Series by Veronica Roth
• The Hunger Games Series by Suzanne Collins
• The Maze Runner Series by James Dashner
• The Giver Quartet by Lois Lowry

What are you reading and watching these days?