Love and Monsters (2020), a post-apocalyptic action-comedy directed by Michael Matthews and produced by Shawn Levy along with Dan Cohen, draws inspiration from Max Brooks short story The Reluctant Resurrected Man. The film charms audiences with its mix of humor, emotion, and old-school monster-movie excitement. Seven years after the world experiences the “Monsterpocalypse,” huge mutated […]
Introduction I Am Legend, a 2007 post-apocalyptic thriller directed by Francis Lawrence, features Will Smith in a performance that earned widespread praise. This film marks the third screen retelling of Richard Mathesons 1954 novel, following the earlier versions, The Last Man on Earth (1964) and The Omega Man (1971). Blending survival drama, horror, and action,
Intro French Sci-fi Thriller Oxygen (Oxygène), directed by Alexandre Aja, premiered in 2021. Aja is known for the use of setting in his films, which are often physically claustrophobic spaces such as in High Tension or Crawl. Oxygen follows Aja’s more epic films in setting, capturing a futuristic cryogenic pod—the entire film takes place in
