I’ll admit it. This is one of those things that I am quite frankly a sucker for. I’ve always been in love with these settings. Sometimes they’re nuclear wastelands. Sometimes the world was washed away by a natural disaster. And in other films, the origin of the apocalypse is left a mystery. In any case, I will always tend to gravitate towards these films. I think it has something to do with the anarchy of it all. On second thought, I’m sure that’s what it is. If we are truly left to our own devices and really have to fend for ourselves, who would survive? Would we naturally build a new hierarchy or digress further into lawlessness? Rest assured one thing we can all count on: I will be eating people. 
Hey remember when Mel Gibson wasn’t spouting drunken racial slurs and verbally abusing his wife’s breast implants? Well, the year was 1981 and the film was Mad Max’s sequel: “The Road Warrior”, directed by George Miller. We’ve probably all seen this one a few times but regardless, it deserves another look. This film contains a lot of action scenes that have proven themselves to stand the test of time. You have and undoubtedly will continue to see homage paid to this film’s chase sequences all over action flicks. It’s more than just a dumb action flick though. It’s a dumb post apocalyptic action flick that’s totally awesome.
Next up we travel to post apocalyptic France. Jean Pierre Juenet and Marc Caro’s Delicatessen (1991) is a black comedy that takes place in a small apartment building above a delicatessen. The residents of the apartment make up a quirky microcosm that uses food for currency and people for food. The main character is a clown that comes to work for the landlord as a handyman, unaware that he is intended as the resident’s next meal. The landlord/butcher’s daughter falls in love with him and has to figure out a way to foil her father’s plan. I absolutely love this film and it turned me on to one of my favorite European filmmakers, Jean Pierre Juenet. He would later collaborate again with Caro on “The City of Lost Children.”
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