posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 11:15 AM
by
Jeremy RVARC
The New Nightmare
My wife and I are big horror movie fans. I recently updated my NetFlix to include the second round of the Horrorfest flicks - 8 Films To Die For. We caught most of the original films that circulated around Halloween of 2006 (they were, on the whole, "meh"), and want to catch up on last year's selection.
What does this have to do with anything? Well, one of the films is called "Tooth and Nail." One synopsis of the movie goes:
A group of young people, called Foragers, fight to survive against a band of vicious cannibals, known as Rovers, in a post-apocalyptic world which has been depleted of fossil fuels.
The voiceover from the trailer puts it like this:
We never saw it coming, that's for sure. It wasn't nuclear war or a deadly virus. Or a comet crashing into the planet. It wasn't overpopulation, or global warming. We simply ran out of gas.
Apparently, running out of gas is the stuff of post-apocalyptic nightmares. In the future, I guess, everyone forgets how to ride a bicycle.