FILES FROM THE BLACK MUSEUM

THE LONG SHADOWS OF CLASSIC HORROR'S PAST

BY PAUL CORUPE

'Round About Midnight “DAY THE WORLD ENDED IS A POST-APOCALYPTIC CHILLER WORTH CONSIDERING AT A TIME WHERE IT INCREASINGLY SEEMS LIKE HUMANITY’S LAST GASP WILL BE A PROLONGED WHIMPER RATHER THAN A QUICK BANG.” Everywhere you turn these days, it seems like there’s a general mood of resignation about what the future holds for humankind. Whether it’s concern over climate collapse, fear of mounting public health crises, or anxiety over inequalities laid bare by “late capitalism,” it appears that many of us feel that the planet is on a dangerous cycle of decline from which it may never bounce back. It’s a scenario that significantly departs from past conceptions of doomsday, which have almost always centred on near-instantaneous nuclear destruction. Hitting Blu-ray from Shout! Factory this May, Day the World Ended (1955)…

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