I’m thrilled and relieved to know that I am not the only deranged blogger on the planet. With all this swine-flu* panic I figured my readers would want to be frightened even more by indulging in graphically-depicted virus epidemic/post-apocalyptic movie-watching. I had hoped to get a list of such said cinematic triumphs up this morning and well, look what the mutated cat dragged in:
Eleven Visions of Life After the Great Epidemic
By Annalee Newitz, 5:32 PM on Mon Apr 27 2009, 7,916 views
Feeling worried about the impending swine flu epidemic? Just to make you feel more panicked, we’ve put together a list of 11 movies that show what happens when humanity is attacked by unstoppable viruses.
Those sly kids at Gawker Media’s sci-fi site, io9 beat me to it and compiled a list of riveting epidemically-plotted movies, which I have linked here. Awesome, they did all my work for me and now I can sit back and use the rest of my day to work on adding to my rubber-band ball and straightening out all my paperclips. Thanks guys!
*Disclaimer: I don’t think the whole swine-flu thing is a laughing matter, however, I do think that we need to keep things in perspective, which is definitely one of Hollywood’s contributions to society–perspective–which is why I refer to films (primarily the blockbusters) often when I have concerns about things like viruses.
