Possibly, the 50+ Worst Ever Apocalyptic Films!
These films all focus on the potential end of the world including accidental, viral outbreak, post-apocalyptic, nuclear, alien invasions, machines and environmental catastrophes. These are possibly the worst films of this genre but everyone is entitled to make up their own mind!
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These films all rate less than 5.0 on IMDB. You want prefer to review The 200+ Best Apocalyptic Films Rated 6+ (Categorized!) or even films with a slightly lower rating: The 100+ Apocalyptic Films That Didn't Quite Make the Top 200 List (Categorized!).
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- DirectorMichele PlunkettStarsTommy FuryCharles RosenayTony SharraAstronomers spot anomaly headed for the earths solar system. The wealthy elite keeps the destruction of the human race secret so they can prepare to only save themselves. After the disaster comes to past what is left of the human species tirelessly attempt to survive their interstellar lives in an unstable mothership.Apocalyptic category: Environmental Catastrophe
- DirectorJonathan HelpertStarsMargaret QualleyAnthony MackieDanny HustonAs a young scientist searches for a way to save a dying Earth, she finds a connection with a man who's racing to catch the last shuttle off the planet.Apocalyptic category: Environmental Catastrophe
Note: IMHO, this movie is better than the rating. - DirectorRodrigo H. VilaStarsHayden ChristensenHarvey KeitelMarco LeonardiKurt, combat veteran with PTSD and hallucinations, fortifies his home and builds a secret underground shelter due to doomsday like weather changes. He gets a security job to pay for it and his boss' cute daughter for company.Apocalyptic category: Environmental Catastrophe
Note: IMHO, this movie is better than the rating. - DirectorBatan SilvaStarsKyra SedgwickNatalia DyerTim DalyAs the SUN burns out, an American family gathers at the end of the world, their hopes for rescue slowly crumbling as they also confront long lasting divides amongst each other.Apocalyptic category: Environmental Catastrophe
Note: IMHO, this movie is MUCH BETTER than the rating. - DirectorJames FrancoBruce Thierry CheungStarsJames FrancoSuki WaterhouseJeff WahlbergA young boy searches a future world wasteland for a rumored cure for his dying mother.Apocalyptic categories: Post-Nuclear War, Dystopian Future
Note: This movie is better than the rating. - DirectorMaximilian ElfeldtStarsJhey CastlesJoseph Michael HarrisEvan James HendersonAs mass of solar storms causes tsunamis, volcanoes, and flooding, a city-dwelling family attempts to flee to the relative safety of a group of high-elevation caves several miles away.Apocalyptic category: Environmental Catastrophe loading
- DirectorHèctor Hernández VicensStarsSophie SkeltonJohnathon SchaechJeff GumA small group of military personnel and survivalists dwell in an underground bunker as they seek to find a cure in a world overrun by zombies.Apocalyptic category: Zombie Epidemic
- DirectorAdam LipsiusStarsJason TobiasSummer SpiroDeJean BrownA scientist builds a boat after his warnings of an Earth-destroying flood are ignored. But when it's evident the disaster will occur, those who maligned the scientist now turn to him in desperation.Apocalyptic category: Environmental Catastrophe
- DirectorSteven DanielsStarsJoe LandoMichelle StaffordDenyse TontzWhen a massive asteroid pulls Earth out of orbit and wrecks chaos on the ground, one man uncovers the secret government plan that could save humanity.Apocalyptic category: Environmental Catastrophe
- DirectorJesse BagetAdrián CardonaRafa DengráStarsJeff NewmanBill Oberst Jr.Jason Eric GordonThere is nowhere to hide...nowhere to run...the Zombie Apocalypse has come, and our world now belongs to the dead! From Ireland, Canada, Australia, Europe and all over the U.S., the bone-chilling news reports tell the same gruesome tale - walking corpses terrorize and devour the living. Only a few desperate humans find the courage to stand and fight for their last chance at survival. But the hordes of undead keep coming, and there's only one thing on the menu - us.Apocalyptic category: Zombie Epidemic
- DirectorScott DowStarsTim OgletreeJoey OglesbyTroy OgletreeWhen a police officer wakes up in a hospital to find out he is in the middle of a zombie apocalypse, he will do anything to find his family, even sacrifice Twitter.Apocalyptic category: Zombie Epidemic
- DirectorAndrew HyattStarsEdward FurlongJeff FaheyMolly HaganSeven strangers find themselves trapped inside an abandoned hospital after an unexplainable apocalyptic event. In addition to being haunted by what they've lost, the strangers must also fight off mysterious creatures that hunt them down one by one.Apocalyptic categories: Environmental Catastrophe, Monsters
- DirectorVic ArmstrongStarsNicolas CageLea ThompsonCassi ThomsonA small group of survivors is left behind after millions of people suddenly vanish and the world is plunged into chaos and destruction.Apocalyptic category: Biblical Apocalypse
- DirectorJonathan WinfreyStarsVictor WebsterJennifer SpenceRichard HarmonA meteorite brings ice and freezing temperatures, which threatens to harm the residents of a small town at Christmas.Apocalyptic category: Environmental Catastrophe
- DirectorAndrew Boodhoo KightlingerStarsTony ToddSteven LukeBates WilderIn a post-apocalyptic American Frontier, a soldier fends off a brutal warmonger to rescue a girl fated as the savior of humanity.Apocalyptic category: Post Nuclear War
- DirectorAdam BaileyStarsTommy MartinAmy HuntRichard HackelIn a dystopian future where pain and emotion have been suppressed by a government-issued drug called Torpase, Joshua Barrett (Tommy Martin) coasts through the monotony of his repetitive, workaday life. But when he's kidnapped by a rebellious priest (Richard Hackel), Joshua is exposed to a world beyond Torpase, changing everything he thought he knew about what it means to live. Also starring Louie Lawless, Amy Hunt, and Kyle Dal Santo, "Cheery Point" examines the necessity of pain and despair and "covers a wide range of possibilities that this country, as a whole, could face" (IMDb review).Apocalyptic category: Dystopian Future
- DirectorM. Night ShyamalanStarsJaden SmithDavid DenmanWill SmithA crash landing leaves Kitai Raige and his father Cypher stranded on Earth, a millennium after events forced humanity's escape. With Cypher injured, Kitai must embark on a perilous journey to signal for help.Apocalyptic categories: Environmental Catastrophe, Sci-Fi View of the Future
- DirectorJames PlumbStarsSule RimiKathy SaxondaleLee BaneThe deceased have risen with the instinct to feed on the living as a family is trapped during a zombie apocalypse. Wales. Based on George A. Romero's classic "Night of the Living Dead".Apocalyptic categories: Zombie Epidemic, Biblical Apocalypse
Note: Sequel to Night of the Living Dead (1990) - DirectorAdam DeyoeStarsScott PeatMarissa MerrillJames C. BurnsWhen a worldwide viral outbreak leads to a plague of zombies scouring the earth for the living, two survivors flee the chaos of America to a remote island, hoping for a chance to start a new life. What they find is unrelenting horror. Beyond the hordes of the flesh-hungry undead, the other people already on the island force the pair into a fight-or-die battle amongst themselves. Armed only with crude weapons, they must descend to savagery and cutthroat tactics just to make it through each day.Apocalyptic categories: Zombie Epidemic, Viral Outbreak
- DirectorMarko MäkilaaksoStarsAndrew TiernanJouko AholaSamuli VauramoA platoon of American and Finnish soldiers is driven deep into a Russian forest where its Captain discovers a terrifying secret.Apocalyptic category: Zombie Epidemic
- DirectorNiki DrozdowskiStarsDaniel BuderLuise BährJerry CoyleThe remaining survivors of pan-global epidemic face a race against time to find a cure before they succumb to its zombie-inducing effects. Holed up in an abandoned military base, Tom and his fellow survivors, their numbers dwindling with each successive day, desperately search for a way of stopping the outbreak and returning their lives to normal. Unfortunately for them, it soon becomes clear that the virus has mutated, turning those affected into rabid, cannibalistic creatures. Can Tom and his friends find a way to stop the seemingly inevitable, or are they doomed to a grisly fate?Apocalyptic category: Zombie Epidemic
- DirectorAbel FerraraStarsWillem DafoeShanyn LeighNatasha LyonneA look at how a painter and a successful actor spend their last day together before the world comes to an end.Apocalyptic category: Environmental Catastrophe
- DirectorChris GorakStarsEmile HirschOlivia ThirlbyMax MinghellaIn Moscow, five young people lead the charge against an alien race who have attacked Earth via our power supply.Apocalyptic category: Alien Invasion
- DirectorMicho RutareStarsJoe LandoClaudia ChristianCooper HarrisA gigantic meteor enters Earth's orbit and begins to disintegrate, showering the entire planet with debris.Apocalyptic category: Environmental Catastrophe
- DirectorColin StrauseGreg StrauseStarsEric BalfourDonald FaisonScottie ThompsonStrange lights descend on the city of Los Angeles, drawing people outside like moths to a flame where an extraterrestrial force threatens to swallow the entire human population off the face of the Earth.Apocalyptic category: Alien Invasion
- DirectorBrian Trenchard-SmithStarsMichael ShanksAlexandra DaviesSaskia HampeleWhen a solar eclipse sends a colossal blast of super chilled air towards the earth, it then sets off a catastrophic chain of events that threatens to engulf the world in ice and begin a new Ice Age.Apocalyptic category: Environmental Catastrophe
- DirectorBrad AndersonStarsHayden ChristensenThandiwe NewtonJohn LeguizamoThe population of Detroit has almost completely disappeared, but a few remain. As daylight disappears they realize that the Dark is coming for them.Apocalyptic category: Environmental Catastrophe
- DirectorCarlos AtanesStarsAna MayoMarina GatellIgnasi VidalA choice must be made. It won't be easy. In fact, she'd rather walk through hell. She may have nothing to fear but fear itself, but that's more than enough.Apocalyptic categories: Environmental Catastrophe, Sci-Fi View of the Future
- DirectorMikael SalomonStarsSean BeanCorey SevierSam ClaflinAfter a global cataclysm, mankind has degraded to a tribal society. In one of the tribes there is a disagreement about what is the best way to survive.Apocalyptic category: Post Nuclear War
- DirectorSimone BartesaghiPhilip KimNeil KinsellaStarsJonathon TrentElizabeth RobertsJonno RobertsThe future of America, when the world runs out of oil.Apocalyptic categories: Dystopian Future, Environmental Catastrophe
- DirectorSteven RumbelowStarsDexter FletcherDickon TolsonLana KamenovA horrible virus kills billions within minutes. The few survivors that are left have to deal with the shock of the apocalypse, and they have no idea that things are about to get much worse.Apocalyptic category: Viral Outbreak
- DirectorKerry Anne MullaneyStarsAlton MilneSandra Louise DouglasVivienne HarveyA neurological pandemic has consumed the population. April, a secretive young girl, and Daniel, a man desperate and bereaved, come together on an isolated farm. When a mysterious stranger turns up, they are confronted with a new enemy even deadlier than the one beyond the perimeter.Apocalyptic category: Viral Outbreak
- DirectorMatthew HopeStarsKaren AdmiraalJack BaileyEmma ChoyThe year is 2015 and overpopulation and famine have plunged our planet into chaos and one desperate survivor finds himself being hunted and pursued by hordes of rage-crazed zombies.Apocalyptic categories: Zombie Epidemic, Environmental Catastrophe
- DirectorJim TorresStarsJoshua LeonardAzura SkyeDiane SalingerEverything that could go wrong did go wrong: War, Terrorism, Natural Disasters. Evacuees were ushered from the cities to refugee camps in the surrounding counties. In-fighting, famine and disease took their toll on the survivors. Now, twenty years after the bombs fell and the plagues ran their course the few that remain live in fear and without hope. Azura Skye stars as Sarah in this Post-Apocalyptic Fairy Tale about a young woman's journey to deliver the first child born in 15 Years. Sarah's refusal to give up is inspired by a lone voice on her radio. Michael broadcasts dim and distant messages of hope mixed with the music he scavenges from the dead. Forced from her basement home by drought and relentlessly pursued by those who want her baby, Sarah crosses paths with Michael in a cavernous, underground refuge of disparate survivors. It is from Three Caves that Michael and Sarah will embark on a journey beyond the boundaries of the Southern Corridor and into the unknown future.Apocalyptic categories: Environmental Catastrophe, Post-Nuclear War, Dystopian Future
- DirectorJean de SegonzacStarsJames BrolinIan SomerhalderBettina ZimmermannThe year is 2048, and global warming has flooded much of Earth's land areas. A father and his two sons try to salvage treasures from sunken buildings when they are given an important assignment by the New Vatican.Apocalyptic category: Environmental Catastrophe
- DirectorJake KennedyStarsTom EplinSabrina GennarinoTravis BrorsenHumanity makes its last stand as zombies emerge to take over the world in this cinematic tale of gore and chaos.Apocalyptic category: Zombie Epidemic
- DirectorPaul ZillerStarsMark DacascosJoanne KellyKevin JubinvilleWhen the sun's increasing expulsions of plasma threaten to ignite methane in our atmosphere, international tensions rise while scientists race for a solution to avoid natural disaster.Apocalyptic category: Environmental Catastrophe
- DirectorMichael G. BartlettKevin GatesStarsScott AinslieToby BowmanVictoria SummerAn unknown virus begins spreading and within weeks it engulfs the entire planet. Upon the death of its host, the virus would reanimate the corpse until it was no longer able to support itself. Soon, the planet was infested with the undead.Apocalyptic category: Zombie Epidemic
- DirectorJoel SoissonStarsBoris PetroffKari WuhrerDaria CiobanuYoung Allison continues to run from Satan's evil angels while hanging onto the ancient Lexicon that foretells the identity of the Antichrist, joined by a hit man who has a change of heart and comes to her aid.Apocalyptic category: Biblical Apocalypse
- DirectorBrian Trenchard-SmithStarsMichael YorkMichael BiehnJoseph MakkarMegiddo is a supernatural ride into a world teetering on the edge of the Apocalypse. It follows the rise of a Machiavellian leader bent on amassing the armies of the world for the battle of Armageddon while calamities of Biblical proportions pummel the Earth. Though both prequel and sequel to The Omega Code, Megiddo works also as a stand alone story for anyone who missed its predecessor, for, at its emotional core, Megiddo is the Caine and Abel story of the two men enamored with the same woman, raised as brothers, who grew up to find themselves pitted against each other over the fate and souls of the entire world.Apocalyptic category: Biblical Apocalypse
- DirectorVic SarinStarsKirk CameronBrad JohnsonJanaya StephensThe Biblical prophecy of Armegeddon begins when the Rapture instantly takes all believers in Christ from the Earth. A reporter left behind learns that the Anti-Christ will soon take power.Apocalyptic category: Biblical Apocalypse
- DirectorJanusz KaminskiStarsWinona RyderBen ChaplinSarah WynterA Catholic teacher meets an atheist journalist, whom a group of Catholics and Priests believes has been chosen by the devil to be the Antichrist.Apocalyptic category: Biblical Apocalypse
- DirectorPeter HyamsStarsArnold SchwarzeneggerGabriel ByrneRobin TunneyAt the end of the century, Satan visits New York in search of a bride. It's up to an ex-cop who now runs an elite security outfit to stop him.Apocalyptic category: Biblical Apocalypse
- DirectorRobert MarcarelliStarsCasper Van DienMichael YorkCatherine OxenbergSPOILER: A rabbi in Jerusalem develops software that can unlock prophecies in the Torah. He's murdered and the software stolen. A powerful man uses it to gain world domination.Apocalyptic category: Biblical Apocalypse
- DirectorLewis BaumanderStarsJeff WincottMaria FordStacy KeachAn able-bodied scientist has found a cure for the plague from outer space which has eradicated almost all life on the planet. A mad general who wants to repopulate the planet with a new race sends a special female assassin to take him out.Apocalyptic categories: Environmental Catastrophe, Sci-Fi View of the Future
- DirectorDavid HoganStarsPamela AndersonAmir AboulElaAdriana AlexanderDuring the Second American Civil War in 2017, Barb Wire owns a nightclub called the Hammerhead. Things become complicated when her ex-lover Axel Hood, who is married to the fugitive Corrina Devonshire, re-enters her life.Apocalyptic category: Apocalyptic War
- DirectorRichard C. SarafianArthur MarksStarsTim MathesonCharlton HestonPeter BoyleA huge solar flare is predicted to fry the Earth. Astronauts must fly toward the sun to drop a talking bomb at the right time for the flare to be aimed elsewhere.Apocalyptic category: Environmental Catastrophe
- DirectorPeter MarisStarsDeborah RennardGarrick DowhenDaniel RadellEarth has been ravaged by a nuclear war, and a feminist warrior is forced to join up with a soldier of fortune in her journey to find a rumored "paradise" as they battle gangs of rampaging bandits.Apocalyptic categories: Post Nuclear War, Sci-Fi View of the Future
- DirectorPaul DonovanDigby CookTony RandelStarsLenore ZannMaury ChaykinKate LynchTwo men and a woman circle the globe in a satellite armed with a nuclear device. The third world war breaks out, and a few months later the satellite crashes. They survive the crash but one man gets killed by survivors and the other man gets caught. The woman stays by the remains of the the satellite but is soon caught by evil punks who have taken power.Apocalyptic category: Nuclear War
- DirectorHarley CokelissStarsMichael BeckAnnie McEnroeJames WainwrightPost World War III futuristic tale of collapsed governments & bankrupt countries heralding a new lawless age.Apocalyptic categories: Post Nuclear War, Sci-Fi View of the Future
- DirectorRobert AmramRolf ForsbergStarsOrson WellesHal LindseyBabettaEvents that are prophesied in the Bible are illustrated to show that civilization is headed for doomsday.Apocalyptic category: Biblical Apocalypse
- DirectorGeorge McCowanStarsJack PalanceCarol LynleyBarry MorseSome time in the future, man has set up colonies on the Moon, when Earth becomes uninhabitable. A madman decides to destroy the Moon colonies with his robots and automated ships, and only three people and their robot can stop him.Apocalyptic categories: Environmental Catastrophe, Sci-Fi View of the Future
- DirectorJohn HayesStarsChristopher LeeSue LyonKirk ScottAfter witnessing a man's death in a bizarre accident, Father Pergado goes on a spiritual retreat, where he encounters his alien double bent on world conquest.Apocalyptic category: Alien Invasion
- DirectorLarry HagmanStarsRobert Walker Jr.Gwynne GilfordRichard StahlA technician brings a frozen specimen of the original Blob back from the North Pole. When his wife accidentally defrosts the thing, it terrorizes the populace, including the local hippies, kittens, and bowlers.Apocalyptic category: Monster
- DirectorRoger CormanStarsBob CorffElaine GiftosBud CortA gas is let loose upon the world that kills anyone over 25 years old.Apocalyptic category: Apocalyptic War
- DirectorLarry BuchananStarsPaul PetersenQuinn O'HaraCharla DohertyIn a post nuclear Earth, survivors are stuck in a valley and have to protect themselves from mutant human beings, and each other in some cases.Apocalyptic categories: Post Nuclear War, Sci-Fi View of the Future
- DirectorAntonio MargheritiStarsClaude RainsBill CarterUmberto OrsiniA runaway asteroid dubbed "The Outsider" mysteriously begins orbiting the Earth and threatens it with lethal flying saucers.Apocalyptic category: Environmental Catastrophe
- DirectorRoger CormanStarsBetsy Jones-MorelandAntony CarboneRobert TowneEv, her husband Harold, and their friend Martin go scuba diving while on vacation in Puerto Rico. When they surface, they find that everyone on the island has died.Apocalyptic category: Environmental Catastrophe
- DirectorPhil TuckerStarsGeorge NaderGregory MoffettClaudia BarrettThe monstrous Ro-Man attempts to annihilate the last family alive on Earth, but finds himself falling for their beautiful daughter.Apocalyptic categories: Alien Invasion, Monster