A loving ode to a universal genre of film. An entire subculture of
end-of-the-world themes was spawned from films like The Road Warrior,
Escape From New York, and The Terminator. While those films are still
being emulated today, film makers all around the world continue to
produce radically unique films with startling perspectives of humanity
facing the end of all things. This book offers pointers and a frame of
reference on how the characters behaved when their worlds were on the
brink of desolation. It covers the genre's biggest blockbusters like The
Hunger Games, I Am Legend, Oblivion, and World War Z, while devoting
equal time and attention to smaller, more obscure films that really
deserve to be discovered. Containing over 800 movie reviews, 60
exclusive interviews with filmmakers and actors who've made films in the
genre, and a vast subgenre index, World Gone Wild is a chronicle of
humanity's struggles through nuclear war, global natural disasters, and
the zombie apocalypse in film.