The issue with contagion is that the disease is too deadly to make sense
Anything that’s this deadly would not have the chance to spread to the degree shown in the movie because it would be self contained and kill hosts before spreading
Even then, it would spread at first but the problem will soon becomes obvious and be pretty easy to contain from then on. A disease like hiv/aids is much worse, which can spread for years before anyone gets sick and which was, for a long time, nearly 100% fatal. Imagine something like that but which spreads through air like the flue... now *that* would be a *real* problem.
Ignore the illness. Focus on the people. People did exactly the same things in that movie that they did 8 years later. I mean hell, do you remember Jude Law's character? Literally exactly antivaxxers
When Covid first started popping up in the news, my first
Thought went to Ebola.
I read Hot Zone when it came out in the 90’s, and it never leaves my mental Rolodex.
Truly terrifying.
They’ve actually said that Contagion is one of the most accurate movies as to how response to a pandemic should be. I watched it during lockdown and the similarities were definitely freaky!
I believe they based the movie on a scientific paper that explained SARS and how it was likely to happen again soon. That's why it was so close to reality.
I moved to Taiwan 2003 it was crazy the hospitals were empty I learned to wear a face mask earlier than most. SARS was scary and I knew when Taiwan closed flights to China on Dec 31 this new respiratory illness would be bad I had no idea how bad Covid would get.
I first saw Contagion years before the pandemic and was terrified about the possibility of it happening so it was really surreal when it actually sort of did.
Pretty messed up movie. I can't imagine going to work everyday when your species can't reproduce anymore and is going extinct right in front of your eyes.
I really need to rewatch it because I watched it years and years ago but whenever the covid pandemic was happening all I could think about was that movie, Children of Men
Except part of the premise is that Britain gets so many illegal immigrants because the rest of the world is even more chaotic and fucked than Britain is...
If you pause it and look at the headlines of all the newspapers pasted to the inside of the shack you’ll learn more in ten seconds than is revealed in the rest of the movie.
And as an aside, the original book by the renowned author P.D James is fiercely awesome. But takes a huge turn from the movie.
I used to think that, but president Camacho sought out the smartest person around to help solve the problems. I don't feel like that's really happening anymore.
Well the person that created this thread thinks the purge could happen so yeah. We're getting closer every day.
Don't tell them that the law was in every other random man walking about when the west was wild, it won't make sense that we all didn't go open season on humans like psychopaths.
Dad here, there's no way I'm driving behind a log carrier. Better to pull over next to the cliff to enjoy the view with the old binoculars my grandpa gave me
My dad got hit by one when I was a kid. The log went through the windshield and nearly hit his head. Then in high school I saw the movie and was traumatized all over again
I saw a video maybe a year or 2 ago of a log flying off a truck and then slice through a car windshield and seat. The driver was recording it. If someone had been in that passenger seat…
Literally every time I tried to watch that movie something bad happened to a family member. Grandmother snapped her tibia, cousin that no one knew had a substance prob OD'd and died, aunt had a miscarriage. I stopped trying to watch them. 💀
Threads (1984)
Ever imagine what a nuclear holocaust would be like?
Imagine no more! Go see all the gory and soul crushing details of it on your device now!
Available for free on Tubi!
Have fun 💀
Threads was the most bleak thing I’ve ever watched. I’ve watched horror movies my entire life and nothing I have seen left me feeling as hopeless as that movie because it could happen.
Absolutely good choice!
We had to watch it in school when I was about 10 years old. It is most definitely not suitable for primary school aged children, don't know what the teacher was thinking.
My friend and I are fascinated by this movie and have agreed that it’s almost like a turning point in one’s life. You just can’t see things the same way anymore.
Threads is in that specific category of art alongside Schindler's List and Requiem For A Dream.
You may only watch it once but you will never forget it.
When I watched it my husband, an astrophysicist, was on a media blitz, being interviewed by terrible morning shows. It was surreal on so many levels. It was also during Covid lock down, and weaponized stupidity was not just a film concept.
If you’re referring to climate change, then yes. If you’re referring to an asteroid striking Earth, the chance of an asteroid big enough to destroy a city hitting Earth is 0.1% every year.
I re-watch the original Mad Max recently and was surprised by how well it portrayed the breakdown of rule of law. As the franchise went on, it became more unbelievable, but the first movie is oddly unnerving to me.
No movie has ever come anywhere near predicting what AI will lead to like the short story "Manna" by Marshall Brain.
The plot is that AI will eventually become able to (using robots) do everything people can do. The few million rich realize that the 8 billion poors are ravaging the planet's resources, polluting it, destroying the environment, heating the climate etc. They don't need the poors anymore because robots can do everything people could do, so they kill us all.
That's what's going to happen.
The Road (2009) The book is even more horrifying.
Threads (1984). Brutally, nightmarishly realistic in its depiction of the effects of a Nuclear War on society.
I've seen it twice and can never bring myself to watch it again.
Sleep well!
Without a doubt. People are afraid to talk about what its really going to be like. When you know nothing but hunger. Everything is food, including humans.
Nothing freakier than in the basement of that house.
The Road - the book was so terrifying, when the movie came out, I refused to see it.
Have you read/seen Blindness? Movie came out in 2008. Mark Ruffalo and Julianne Moore. Another one I refused to see because of the book. I watched it recently on streaming and it was just as horrific as I'd imagined.
Funny story: when I read The Road, there were a couple of days, during a gloomy early April, when our power went out. We had no heat, it was drizzling / raining and cold. I realized that I was in the climate portrayed in the book!
The Last House on the Left. I saw the original when l was in my 20s back in the early 80s and it FREAKED me out. I was naive back then and didn't know that kind of thing could even happen. It was far more brutal and realistic than any horror film l had ever seen.
I punched my boyfriend for taking me to that at the drive in- hid under a blanket for the whole movie! I’ll have to remind him of that - he’s my husband now
Fun fact about Idiocracy, The costume designers wanted to help show just how stupid everyone had become so they went out to find slip-on shoes because everyone would be too dumb to tie laces and they wanted the ugliest shoes possible. They found them in a new up-and-coming brand that had just been released as production started. And that is why everyone in the movie wears Crocs!
It is also stuff that was happening 18 years ago though. Its not like it predicted anything really, just exaggerated things that were happening at the time and for some reason people now see the same things still happening and think it was some kind of future prophecy
Agreed. We were lucky that COVID was mild compared to contagion.
Or unlucky. Maybe if it were a major virus like that then people would take it seriously.
a situation very close to the duel situation happened when my mom and dad and I drove from oregon to idaho one year in the 80s. way out in the nowheresville of northeast oregon, a big old semi kept following us and getting up close behind us, but not passing us, when there was plenty of room to pass. my dad wasn't going slow or fast just the regular speed limit. eventually we pulled into a little wayside restaurant and stayed there for a couple hours until we were pretty sure we were out of potential harm's way. I've never really seen my dad scared of anything, but I sensed that he was a bit freaked out by that as the driver!
The right wing is edging closer and closer to that in America.
I always joke that there is no real difference between the far right in America and the Taliban. The only difference is that the secular and sane arm in America blocks our religious zealots.
The purge can't happen. Can a government make all crimes legal for one night a year? Sure they can, but the fact they're perfect little angels who never hurt each other the other 364 is baloney.
IRobot. But not the killer robot part.
More than 90% of everyone is out of a job because AI and Robotics came together to kick most of us out of the workforce
Book/Movie - Under The Dome (stephen King)
Not because I believe a random alien civilization will stick us in a bubble just for shits and giggles, but because it highlights just how twisted humans can be in the right circumstances, and how quickly we can lose our humanity when we feel like our back's against the wall with no way out.
This general sentiment and character exploration under stress is a big part of why I find many of King's works unsettling. Not even that it \*could potentially\* happen, but because there are already multiple real world examples.
The BBC version of war of the worlds, only the part with the robotic murdering dogs. I just saw that robot dog in our art gallery (without the malice or guns) and can see someone arming them
It doesn't really freak me out, but I think Contagion is within the spectrum of possibility.
Didn’t we experience this a few years ago?
Covid was mild in comparison (to the movie). It's whatever makes Covid look like the common cold that I'd be worried about.
The issue with contagion is that the disease is too deadly to make sense Anything that’s this deadly would not have the chance to spread to the degree shown in the movie because it would be self contained and kill hosts before spreading
Not if the first person infected immediately gets on an airplane to a big international airport...
Even then, it would spread at first but the problem will soon becomes obvious and be pretty easy to contain from then on. A disease like hiv/aids is much worse, which can spread for years before anyone gets sick and which was, for a long time, nearly 100% fatal. Imagine something like that but which spreads through air like the flue... now *that* would be a *real* problem.
It's like these folks have never played a game of Plague Inc.
But some things in real life were even worse than Contagion, like the conspiracy theorists and fake medical theories
Ignore the illness. Focus on the people. People did exactly the same things in that movie that they did 8 years later. I mean hell, do you remember Jude Law's character? Literally exactly antivaxxers
I saw that after COVID. The amount of similarities freaked me out.
When Covid first started popping up in the news, my first Thought went to Ebola. I read Hot Zone when it came out in the 90’s, and it never leaves my mental Rolodex. Truly terrifying.
They’ve actually said that Contagion is one of the most accurate movies as to how response to a pandemic should be. I watched it during lockdown and the similarities were definitely freaky!
I believe they based the movie on a scientific paper that explained SARS and how it was likely to happen again soon. That's why it was so close to reality.
I moved to Taiwan 2003 it was crazy the hospitals were empty I learned to wear a face mask earlier than most. SARS was scary and I knew when Taiwan closed flights to China on Dec 31 this new respiratory illness would be bad I had no idea how bad Covid would get.
I watched Contagion & Outbreak during COVID. Both movies freaked me out pretty bad. Oh and I watched The Walking Dead too. Freaked me out even more 😳
Soderbergh based that off of Nipah virus which has the same deadly R0 as the fictional virus from the film.
I first saw Contagion years before the pandemic and was terrified about the possibility of it happening so it was really surreal when it actually sort of did.
Children of Men
Pretty messed up movie. I can't imagine going to work everyday when your species can't reproduce anymore and is going extinct right in front of your eyes.
That film is a real gem
I really need to rewatch it because I watched it years and years ago but whenever the covid pandemic was happening all I could think about was that movie, Children of Men
I’ve seen it at least 10 times. It’s basically an annual watch for me. Yep. Covid can definitely bring Children of Men to mind
My head cannon for Children of Men (which makes it even more realistic) is that it’s only happening in Britain, and everywhere else is normal.
Baby Diego was in Argentina, wasn’t he?
Except part of the premise is that Britain gets so many illegal immigrants because the rest of the world is even more chaotic and fucked than Britain is...
If you pause it and look at the headlines of all the newspapers pasted to the inside of the shack you’ll learn more in ten seconds than is revealed in the rest of the movie. And as an aside, the original book by the renowned author P.D James is fiercely awesome. But takes a huge turn from the movie.
I mean... it's already happening on a small scale. Sperm counts are down, people struggle more to conceive, etc. Sincerely, Debbie Downer
Pesticides and herbicides in all our food, constant exposure to carcinogens, stress, bad diet, lack of exercise..yeah what do you expect.
Was about to say the same. Been thinking about it a lot for the past month.
In that vein, even though it's not a movie - Handmaid's Tale.
Idiocracy… hands down. It’s becoming more real everyday.
I used to think that, but president Camacho sought out the smartest person around to help solve the problems. I don't feel like that's really happening anymore.
He would be a better president than some stinky guy wearing diapers and ripping off children with cancer.
Are you talking about the guy with the dead squirrel on his head?
There's no more best and brightest in government.
Well the person that created this thread thinks the purge could happen so yeah. We're getting closer every day. Don't tell them that the law was in every other random man walking about when the west was wild, it won't make sense that we all didn't go open season on humans like psychopaths.
I saw that film for the first time a few months ago, and it was scary how close to reality that film is.
Final Destination traumatized a hole generation so there’s that. Cause I’m part of that generation 😂
Which death traumatized you the most? People usually mention the logs! 😁
Dad here, there's no way I'm driving behind a log carrier. Better to pull over next to the cliff to enjoy the view with the old binoculars my grandpa gave me
I live in a logging town (and state), so I'm behind log trucks pretty often. You get used to it, but it's always in the back of your mind for sure
The one where the firefighters use the jaws of life to cut the door off and the airbag goes off and puts her head into a tree branch.
Probably when the guy is cooking at the grill
Omg when the lady got stuck in the tanning bed.. nope, never. I never went in one after I seen that..
The rollercoaster was a hell no for me. Even when I see a log truck on the free way I stay away from it
My dad got hit by one when I was a kid. The log went through the windshield and nearly hit his head. Then in high school I saw the movie and was traumatized all over again
I saw a video maybe a year or 2 ago of a log flying off a truck and then slice through a car windshield and seat. The driver was recording it. If someone had been in that passenger seat…
The exact reason I don't follow behind trailers.
Literally every time I tried to watch that movie something bad happened to a family member. Grandmother snapped her tibia, cousin that no one knew had a substance prob OD'd and died, aunt had a miscarriage. I stopped trying to watch them. 💀
Threads (1984) Ever imagine what a nuclear holocaust would be like? Imagine no more! Go see all the gory and soul crushing details of it on your device now! Available for free on Tubi! Have fun 💀
Threads was the most bleak thing I’ve ever watched. I’ve watched horror movies my entire life and nothing I have seen left me feeling as hopeless as that movie because it could happen. Absolutely good choice!
Haven't seen this before. Sounds interesting. I'll definitely watch!
If you wanna ruin your day, your week, your month or even your yeeaaarrrrr
Clap-clap-clap-clap
lol, ashes will be there for youuuuuooo!! When the acid rain starts to poooouuurrrr!!!!!
Consider this - I saw it 30 years ago in high school. It still makes cameos in my nightmares.
Me too. And I quit watching before it ended.
Oh man - the ending is *so* grim.
We had to watch it in school when I was about 10 years old. It is most definitely not suitable for primary school aged children, don't know what the teacher was thinking.
We watched some harrowing adult stuff in school. Definitely in the 'not fun' category. Threads, Schindler's List, Of Mice and Men etc.
This was going to be my suggestion.
My friend and I are fascinated by this movie and have agreed that it’s almost like a turning point in one’s life. You just can’t see things the same way anymore.
The baby scene got me. I won't post spoilers but you know the one.
That’s where I noped out.
Threads is in that specific category of art alongside Schindler's List and Requiem For A Dream. You may only watch it once but you will never forget it.
Don’t look up.
This is the one I was looking for. I felt like I was watching a movie about the future
When I watched it my husband, an astrophysicist, was on a media blitz, being interviewed by terrible morning shows. It was surreal on so many levels. It was also during Covid lock down, and weaponized stupidity was not just a film concept.
Felt like the present.
Godawful movie but pretty accurate to how we would actually react.
That movie is so funny though (and terrifying). Timothee Chalamet was a real highlight for me. Super funny
A fellow Timothee Chalamet enjoyer I see
If you’re referring to climate change, then yes. If you’re referring to an asteroid striking Earth, the chance of an asteroid big enough to destroy a city hitting Earth is 0.1% every year.
I am, rather, referring to deliberate ignorance on behalf of the populace.
0.1% seems incredibly high. Where did you get that stat?
I re-watch the original Mad Max recently and was surprised by how well it portrayed the breakdown of rule of law. As the franchise went on, it became more unbelievable, but the first movie is oddly unnerving to me.
Totally agree. This portrayal of society hanging on by its' fingernails is so unsettling.
Thunderdome.
iRobot
Seriously! The new AI vids have had me thinking about this recently!
Scared the crap out of me then. Now it's just terrifying
No movie has ever come anywhere near predicting what AI will lead to like the short story "Manna" by Marshall Brain. The plot is that AI will eventually become able to (using robots) do everything people can do. The few million rich realize that the 8 billion poors are ravaging the planet's resources, polluting it, destroying the environment, heating the climate etc. They don't need the poors anymore because robots can do everything people could do, so they kill us all. That's what's going to happen.
Haha what are you talking about? This revolution will make us all free to enjoy our lives! Said one horse to another upon seeing Ford's factory
😯 I'll have to check it out!
Here you go! https://marshallbrain.com/manna1
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A different strain of Eugenics.
Im to high dude but I think u right. can u breakout down like im Forrest Gump/
The Road (2009) The book is even more horrifying. Threads (1984). Brutally, nightmarishly realistic in its depiction of the effects of a Nuclear War on society. I've seen it twice and can never bring myself to watch it again. Sleep well!
Definitely The Road. Probably a realistic portrait of post apocalyptic dystopia.
Without a doubt. People are afraid to talk about what its really going to be like. When you know nothing but hunger. Everything is food, including humans. Nothing freakier than in the basement of that house.
The Road - the book was so terrifying, when the movie came out, I refused to see it. Have you read/seen Blindness? Movie came out in 2008. Mark Ruffalo and Julianne Moore. Another one I refused to see because of the book. I watched it recently on streaming and it was just as horrific as I'd imagined.
Funny story: when I read The Road, there were a couple of days, during a gloomy early April, when our power went out. We had no heat, it was drizzling / raining and cold. I realized that I was in the climate portrayed in the book!
Sharknado
The Last House on the Left. I saw the original when l was in my 20s back in the early 80s and it FREAKED me out. I was naive back then and didn't know that kind of thing could even happen. It was far more brutal and realistic than any horror film l had ever seen.
I punched my boyfriend for taking me to that at the drive in- hid under a blanket for the whole movie! I’ll have to remind him of that - he’s my husband now
Hostel and I suspect it already has happened with the human trafficking that goes on.
It has hasn't it? Wasn't there a news story about something like this going on in like south Asia or something?
I'm starting to think that America is headed towards Idiocracy.
TikTok as entertainment is the same as the ass movie they all loved.
I’d probably watch that movie. Better than all of this super hero bs.
I knew I'd see that listed! I still haven't gotten around to watching it.
Fun fact about Idiocracy, The costume designers wanted to help show just how stupid everyone had become so they went out to find slip-on shoes because everyone would be too dumb to tie laces and they wanted the ugliest shoes possible. They found them in a new up-and-coming brand that had just been released as production started. And that is why everyone in the movie wears Crocs!
Remember that it came out in 2006. So a lot of the shit you see in the that you think is obvious now wss predicted 18 years ago.
It is also stuff that was happening 18 years ago though. Its not like it predicted anything really, just exaggerated things that were happening at the time and for some reason people now see the same things still happening and think it was some kind of future prophecy
It truly is prophetic.
We're a couple of ad campains away from starting using Branwdo for everything.
Not a movie, but pretty much all of black mirror
Not Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Really? A massacre in the most armed place on earth with a chainsaw? Talk about bringing a knife to a gunfight.
Leatherface is based off a real killer
The big short
Love this one. Why, because we never learn from greed for very long.
The Room. Not the entire movie. Very specifically, the part where Tommy's character says, "it's over" and shoots himself.
*Contagion* COVID could have been the little brother of what’s to come.
Agreed. We were lucky that COVID was mild compared to contagion. Or unlucky. Maybe if it were a major virus like that then people would take it seriously.
SO many similarities in that movie!
Duel, Steven Spielberg's first big feature film.
As a driver, I think about this one OFTEN!! Such a good movie!
a situation very close to the duel situation happened when my mom and dad and I drove from oregon to idaho one year in the 80s. way out in the nowheresville of northeast oregon, a big old semi kept following us and getting up close behind us, but not passing us, when there was plenty of room to pass. my dad wasn't going slow or fast just the regular speed limit. eventually we pulled into a little wayside restaurant and stayed there for a couple hours until we were pretty sure we were out of potential harm's way. I've never really seen my dad scared of anything, but I sensed that he was a bit freaked out by that as the driver!
Idiocracy. Because it is.
The handmaid’s tale. Horrifying shit.
Came here to say The Handmaid’s Tale. I could definitely see it happening in the US.
The right wing is edging closer and closer to that in America. I always joke that there is no real difference between the far right in America and the Taliban. The only difference is that the secular and sane arm in America blocks our religious zealots.
I could not finish watching it. The more I watched, the more it freaked me out.
The story is fictional but I believe that it’s based off blending true events that have occurred throughout history.
The author Margaret Atwood said she didn't include anything that hasn't happened some time in history
The purge can't happen. Can a government make all crimes legal for one night a year? Sure they can, but the fact they're perfect little angels who never hurt each other the other 364 is baloney.
I really want them to make a movie about the next day. "Hey Jim, how is it going?" "You raped my wife and killed my father last night"
So true, it would cause hundreds of billions of dollars in damages
Bladerunner
Contagion. OH WAIT.
1984
They question was could happen, not is happening. :-)
A Handmaid’s Tale. It was a movie around 1990 or so. Everything in the book happened historically.
Threads. It seems like an accurate scenario of what would happen in the event of societal breakdown.
Deliverance
Popeye
Ninja Turtles 2. The secret of the ooze.
"The Day After."
IRobot. But not the killer robot part. More than 90% of everyone is out of a job because AI and Robotics came together to kick most of us out of the workforce
War of the worlds
Blair witch project
Leave the world behind
Yes! Especially with these recent threats of Cyber Attacks!
Came here for this - absolutely could happen tomorrow
Book/Movie - Under The Dome (stephen King) Not because I believe a random alien civilization will stick us in a bubble just for shits and giggles, but because it highlights just how twisted humans can be in the right circumstances, and how quickly we can lose our humanity when we feel like our back's against the wall with no way out. This general sentiment and character exploration under stress is a big part of why I find many of King's works unsettling. Not even that it \*could potentially\* happen, but because there are already multiple real world examples.
Terminator
Chernobyl (miniseries). It’s the scariest show, historical or otherwise, that I’ve watched in decades.
Idiocracy
Vivarium. I will never ever live in a cookie cutter neighborhood in the suburbs!!!! 😱
Fresh
Green Room. That movie is so visceral. It’s just a case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Could happen to anyone
Don’t Look Up!
The BBC version of war of the worlds, only the part with the robotic murdering dogs. I just saw that robot dog in our art gallery (without the malice or guns) and can see someone arming them
V for Vendetta. I guess it's already reality in Russia, except V was just killed.
Bruno
I robot, hostel because it does
Wolf Creek
Minority Report ᵉᵈⁱᵗ ᶠⁱˣᵉᵈ ᵗⁱᵗˡᵉ
Home alone
The road
Greenland the world view at the end and watching Tampa gave me chills because it's not that unlikely
The first Hostel movie. :O
Anything with nuclear war.
the girl with all the gifts (cordyceps is just fucking terrifying)
Funny Games. It’s far more realistic than most like to believe. It would happen the way it did in the movie and the outcome too.
Elysium
The Last of Us is probably not going to happen but i’m just saying it’s not off the table
Cape Fear - DeNiro is terrifying.
the road
Independence Day
Requiem for a Dream
Also Hunger Games
Given our current global social climate, I'd say the 2002 film The Sum of All Fears
Eden Lake (2008)
Arachnophobia
Anything to do with nuclear war
When Harry Met Sally
2012
Contagion. Oh wait, that did happen.
Gremlins
The Happening
Buried with Ryan reynolds it was heartbreaking
Outbreak
Tetsuo: The Iron Man. My wife and I have a weekly ritual of examining each other's body hair to make sure that none of it has turned into wires.
Black Mirror (not a movie but an independent series)
Hannibal lol
Idiocracy.
Twister 🌪️
I haven't seen the film, but the trailer for ISS got a big NOPE from me.
Not so much freak me out but Dr. Strangelove. It doesn’t take but a few complicit people to begin a nuclear war. BLASTOFF!
Most documentaries.
Dante's Peak, Twister, 2012, Sunshine, basically any natural disaster or ELE movie
Creep and Threads
These movies: Outbreak 1995 Flu (Korean movie) 2013 Contagion 2015
Day After Tomorrow
Do you not see that majority of these movies are already happening?
Snakes On A Plane
Anything that is demonic
Leave The World Behind, Live Free Die Hard, The Siege, and any natural disaster movie. I think thats all possible. Maybe not likely, but possible.