Post Apocaliptic Film

Popularity Of Post Apocalitpic films

How popular are Post Apocalyptic movies?

I believe that post apocalyptic movies are becoming increasingly popular, due to the genre expanding to a wider audience. This is because the films are being made more frequently therefore more people will watch them. Is there a HUGE difference in terms of takings between UK made movies and Hollywood made movies?

28 Days Later (2002) is a UK made movie:
rating- 7.6/10
budget- $8,000,000
gross- $45,063,889The Book of Eli (2010) is a Hollywood made movie:
rating- 6.9/10
budget- $80,000,000
gross- $94,822,707

As we can see from the data provided 28 days later made millions more dollars in profit than the book of Eli did. This is because the UK directing team had a lot more less budget than the Hollywood producers did but overall 28 days later came out to be the better film.

Post Apocaliptic Opening Scenes

The 4 post apocalyptic films opening scenes

28 days later: 28 days later takes place in a post apocalyptic Britain four weeks after a virus spreaded across the country This is a result of an activists wanting to release a chimpanzee which is undergoing experiments and not listening to a trained smart scientists who tries to explain the animal is infected with the virus that causes the outrage across the country. The main character Jim awakes from a coma, 28 days later, to an abandoned hospital. After trying to find civilization in London, he ends up in a church inhabited by zombie/humans and is saved when he meets Selena and Mark.

The film opens to a series of news reports and  footage of people causing chaos.every couple of seconds loud noises are exposed from the distance such as the stamping of the soldiers feet and the bangs from an explosion, this adds to the fear from the audience and makes the events more realistic.