Theme: Environmentalism

Environmentalism concerns the awareness and concern for despoliation of the environment, pollution, climate change and endangered species as they are depicted in Fantastic Cinema.

The 1970s Nature’s Revenge and Animals Attack. films began to raise issues of environmental concern, showing various animal species becoming hostile, driven out of their natural habitats or mutated as a result of pollution and destruction of the environment.

Other films depict humanity living in a badly polluted future. In more recent years, rising concerns about Global Warming have led to depictions of futures where global temperatures have risen with catastrophic effect. More recently environmental catastrophes have started to feature in Disaster Movies.

A number of works that were previously regarded as Monster Movies, in particular the Bigfoot film, have started to show said monsters as an endangered species worthy of protection.