I'm with Wazza. "The Edge" is a great movie. Got it on DVD.

Have any of you heard of an 80's movie called "Threads"? Man, this is a very graphic THOTW movie.

Considering where we seem to be going, "Soylent Green" is not an unreal scenario.

im a bit dissapointed that no one mentioned ANY of the MadMax movies. cmon, post-apocolyptic survival at its best! sure, there are no trees or pretty lakes to fish your meals from, but i think it still qualifies as survival...AHA! what about the kids that survived in the paradise in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome?....theeey survived!


oh..and Castaway.
cheesy? yes.
accurate? sorta-slightly-yes

i never understood how people get killed by zombies...for example, Night of the Living Dead: .......ATTIC! there, done. you can hide up there and be completely zombie free. or even instead of taking all that time to board up doors and what not, why not just destroy the steps and hang out upstairs...? this way they cant get you and you have easy access to showers (nothing works up a sweat like zombie-bashing)...


oh, and in case you think your PZSK is a little on the light side, consider adding

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to your xmas-list...


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just saw "the endurance" great documentary, shackelton what a great survivalist

Yes!, a Survivalist's Survivalist!
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I Don't Want to Overly Chime In, -But in Response to your Comment, -I've got to Add "Waterworld". I Myself am Not All that Thrilled about it!, -But in the Genre as you Mention, -It's a Good One! Beats Zombies and Other Silly Stuff! <img src="images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
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Threads - if its the movie I thnk you're talking about, its when a nuke explodes above Sheffield. It follows the fate of one pregnant woman as she and others struggle to survive the aftermath. Graphic is definitely the word from what I remember.

We studied it as part of my English GCSE..... and it certainly made an impression on me. That film combined with the books "Z for Zachariah " and "Children of the Dust", both of which are post-nuclear apocalypse stories, and Macbeth as our Shakespeare play made for a pretty maudlin syllabus. <img src="images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Correct! Thats the movie!

What is "English GCSE"?

"On the Beach" with Greogory Peck as the submarine commander, and Fred Astair (The only film I have seen where he does not do any dancing.) as the wanna-be race car driver in the last uncontaminated continent in the world; Australia.

The last scenes of mass suicide and the futility of it all still brings tears no matter how many times I have seen it.

Instead of poison, Fred Astair puts his car up on blocks and races the engine in a closed garage.

Scary and heartbreaking, because there was no more chance for survival as nuclear contamination reached Australia.

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GCSE (General Certificate of Secondary Education) - In Britain school kids have two exam levels. We usually take between 6 to 8 subjects at GCSE level at 16 years old, and 3 to 4 subjects at "A" (Advanced) level at 18 years old. The grades you get at "A" levels determine if you get into university, and what you can study.
"On the beach" was a novel written by Neville shute. If you haven't read his novels I would highly recommend them. Brings back memories for me of the cold war, and the MAD scarnerio. Spine-chilling stuff.