The Best Apocalypse Movies on Shudder
Finding a good Apocalypse movie to watch can be hard, so we've ranked the best ones and included where to watch them. Check out our list of the best Apocalypse movies of all time streaming on Shudder.
1. Train to Busan
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What it's about: Martial law is declared when a mysterious viral outbreak pushes Korea into a state of emergency. Those on an express train to Busan, a city that has successfully fended off the viral outbreak, must fight for their own survival…
Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Tubi), stream on a popular subscription service (Netflix, Hiyah & Shudder) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 6 services (iTunes, Google Play & 4 others).
2. Escape from New York
85%What it's about: In 1997, the island of Manhattan has been walled off and turned into a giant maximum security prison within which the country's worst criminals are left to form their own anarchic society. However, when the President of the United States crash lands on the island, the authorities turn to a former soldier and current convict to rescue him.
Where to Watch: Available to stream on a subscription service (CBS All Access, Shudder & The Criterion Channel) & rent or buy from $3.99 on 5 services (iTunes, Google Play & 3 others).
3. Stake Land
74%What it's about: Martin was a normal teenage boy before the country collapsed in an empty pit of economic and political disaster. A vampire epidemic has swept across what is left of the nation's abandoned towns and cities, and it's up to Mister, a death dealing, rogue vampire hunter, to get Martin safely north to Canada, the continent's New Eden.
Where to Watch: Available to stream on a popular subscription service (Prime Video, Shudder & Kanopy) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 5 services (iTunes, Google Play & 3 others).
4. The Quiet Earth
75%What it's about: After a top-secret experiment misfires, a scientist may be the only man left alive in the world.
Where to Watch: Available to stream on a subscription service (Shudder & Kanopy) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 5 services (iTunes, Google Play & 3 others).
5. Night of the Comet
77%What it's about: Two girls from the Valley wake up to find that a passing comet has eradicated their world and left behind a mysterious red-dust and a pack of cannibal mutants. With the help of a friendly truck driver, the girls save the earth from a villainous "think tank," karate chop their way through flesh-eating zombies, and, of course, find time to go to the mall.
Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Tubi & IMDb TV), stream on a subscription service (Shudder) & rent or buy from $3.99 on 1 service (Prime Video).
6. Dead or Alive: Final
42%What it's about: Set in a post apocalyptic Yokohama where the population is kept under rigid control by a homosexual megalomaniac mayor. The citizens are administered drugs to suppress heterosexual urges. Officer Takeshi Honda (Riki Takeuchi) is a hard boiled cop enforcing the mayor's agenda, and Ryō (Show Aikawa) is a mellowed out drifter that hooks up with a gang of rebels. When the gang kidnap Takeshi's son, it begins a series of events leading to an inevitable showdown.
Where to Watch: Available to stream on a popular subscription service (Prime Video & Shudder) & rent or buy from $0.99 on 1 service (Prime Video).
7. The Stakelander
N/AWhat it's about: When his home of New Eden is destroyed by a revitalized Brotherhood and its new Vamp leader, Martin finds himself alone in the badlands of America with only the distant memory of his mentor and legendary vampire hunter, Mister, to guide him.
Where to Watch: Available to stream on a subscription service (Shudder) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 5 services (iTunes, Google Play & 3 others).