Wednesday afternoon apocalypse: Ever Since the World Ended. This low-budget pseudodocumentary came out only last year, and I'm surprised it got so little attention, as despite its shoestring budget it's actually put together really well. Drawing (perhaps a bit too closely) from the middle third of Earth Abides, this is the story of the 186 survivors who populate San Francisco ten years after a worldwide plague (and the associated chaos) wiped out the vast majority of the human race.

It's not the sort of movie one would necessarily call "great"—production quality does matter, after all, and the budgetary constraints make the post-apocalyptic world unpleasantly small and insufficiently differentiated from our own—but it's quite good on its own terms, and really something of a neglected gem of 2006. You have to wonder what the filmmakers could have come up with if they'd had the budget of, say, Children of Men or Sunshine.

Here's a trailer:



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Check it out, apocalystas.