THE END OF THE WORLD BLOGATHON – Day 1 Recap

We had a slew of bloggers who couldn’t wait to write about the apocalypse — at least, as it is depicted in movies. See what they had to say as we present

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Click on the name of each individual blog below to read their blogathon entry.

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Diary of a Movie Maniac reaches way back to another country and another era for his end story — the Danish silent film The End of the World.

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Caftan Woman decided to consult a Pal (George, that is) to find out what would happen When Worlds Collide.

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Speakeasy offers a double feature of doom with This Is Not a Test and Five.

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Fate brings the hammer down on Mike Hammer in the apocalyptic film noir Kiss Me Deadly, as reviewed by The Dream Book Blog.

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Silver Screenings looks at cinema’s first adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984.

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Seeker of Truth ponders whether humans should be allowed to survive, based on the evidence provided in The Story of Mankind.

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In the first of two entries from our co-host The Midnite Drive-In, nuclear (and dysfunctional relationship) fallout is inevitable in Stanley Kramer’s On the Beach.

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Maddielovesherclassicfilms observes the effect that an incoming meteor has on the world and its inhabitants in Deep Impact.

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Movierob gives his take on I Am Legend, the first of two entries in his apocalyptic annals.

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The sun is dying, so ThoughtsAllSorts tries to grab a little Sunshine for us.

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And finally, yours truly takes a look at the cheesier side of apocalyptic cinema, as shown in Plan 9 from Outer Space and the film-within-a-film of Strange Brew.

We still have two more days of the blogathon to, er, survive, so keep us bookmarked for more ominous fun — we’re not dead yet!