Weird end of the world scenarios are a breath of fresh air just to see how crazy they can get but also being pure fiction we don't have to dwell on the bleak nature.
The MOST bleak end of the world movie is the 1980s "BBC Television Play" known as Threads.
It was a simple concept of people living their normal lives with hints in background news TV and radio broadcasts of political Cold War turmoil getting slow "hot" before the nuclear bombs drop. Here on out it shows the survivors scattered across the UK and their stories but what made it bleak was how real it was. First off, there are more survivors than most of it's genre, millions in fact but many slowly die off due to lack of survival skills, radiations, hunger and nuclear winter, with jumps in years showing to decay, for example younger generations loosing the ability to speak normal English due to the lack of formal education and casual contact on a regular basis and some areas reverting to the Dark Ages.
It's just downright plain depressing because it's so real. It's tagline "The closest you'll ever want to come to nuclear war" defiantly holds true. More bleak than the similar US film The Day After, which oddly enough shares the name with this special episode, hence why I thought of Threads.
EDIT: BTW Bob, have you seen The Mist? Defiantly watchable in my opinion, being one of the more interesting concepts to the end of the world genre.
