Theme: The End of the World

The End of the World refers to the destruction of planet Earth and/or the end of human civilisation. This should be differentiated from assorted Catastrophe and Disaster Movie scenarios where we see large parts of society being destroyed. In these, the End of the World is frequently threatened but is almost never depicted as happening.

The end can be due to Nuclear War or the unleashing of a Doomsday Weapon. In other instances, the end can be due to an environmental catastrophe that renders the world uninhabitable; a pandemic that wipes out all or just human life; the impact of another celestial body such as an asteroid, meteor or another planet; or else the sun going supernova.

Some films about Biblical End Times depict the Biblical Apocalypse occurring, or sometimes the unleashing of elder gods from Lovecraftian Horror. Some works leave the cause of the end as mysterious and unexplained, creating in effect an apocalypse that is an existential question mark.