VIDEO Aftermath (2015) - Nuclear Radiation-Fallout Movie - In Full HD on Youtube

[1911user]

This is the complete movie Aftermath (2015). It's on youtube in up to 1080p resolution (full HD). It was filmed in 2012 on a $500,000 budget. You might recognize a few of the actors including Edward Furlong (John Conner in Terminator 2).

It's a fairly accurate look at the month after a nuclear war in North Texas (a fallout zone) with an old cellar for shelter and a group of strangers. It's not a comforting film. It's bleak, but more realistic than most films of the genre'.
It's not a movie for children. Ignore the minor plot holes and embrace the descent into a radioactive environment.


If you like/collect doomer nuclear films, then download this one, and then watch it.
I'm surprised it hasn't been deleted since youtube is currently "renting" the exact same film for $4 under the correct title. It has been up for 3 months though.

EDIT: One issue with the video on youtbe: the audio and video quality are fine, but the audio level is low in my browser. You may have to turn up the volume a little higher than normal.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1564368/?ref_=fn_al_tt_4 <-----Movie Database link with info about the film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdySRhTIcQc <----------Youtube movie link (click this to watch film)


Movie Poster: (Deceptive, since no gas masks are used in the actual film, but it sets the mood well)

 

[mawmaw]

Thanks saved it for another rainy day

 

[Vegas321]

Ok, i'm at only 16:30 into this movie. And with the shadow looking on them put dirt on the cellar, i'm already spooked. This has me more gripped then any horror movie.

 

[Dennis Olson]

Sunday night Doomer porn....

 

[CELLO]

Sunday night Doomer porn....

X 1000

 

[Vegas321]

49:00 mark into this. Holy Smokes!

 

[medic38572]

All the way through awesome thanks

 

[1911user]

49:00 mark into this. Holy Smokes!

Did you finish watching it?

 

[Vegas321]

Did you finish watching it?

Yeah, It was a good movie.

 

[SmokeyBear]

This is the complete movie Aftermath (2015). It's on youtube in up to 1080p resolution (full HD). It was filmed in 2012 on a $500,000 budget. You might recognize a few of the actors including Edward Furlong (John Conner in Terminator 2).

It's a fairly accurate look at the month after a nuclear war in North Texas (a fallout zone) with an old cellar for shelter and a group of strangers. It's not a comforting film. It's bleak, but more realistic than most films of the genre'.
It's not a movie for children. Ignore the minor plot holes and embrace the descent into a radioactive environment.


If you like/collect doomer nuclear films, then download this one, and then watch it.
I'm surprised it hasn't been deleted since youtube is currently "renting" the exact same film for $4 under the correct title. It has been up for 3 months though.

EDIT: One issue with the video on youtbe: the audio and video quality are fine, but the audio level is low in my browser. You may have to turn up the volume a little higher than normal.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1564368/?ref_=fn_al_tt_4 <-----Movie Database link with info about the film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdySRhTIcQc <----------Youtube movie link (click this to watch film)

Good movie. Thanks!

 

[Doc1]

Pretty good movie, especially considering that they shot it on a $500,000.00 budget! They did a fairly good representation of the radiation effects too, though their chronology was less than accurate. Some of this was doubtless due to editing. The yellow radiation detecting electronic device shown was not a Geiger counter: It's an old Civil Defence ion chamber instrument. Shane sells them. They are only good for high radiation fields, whereas (most) Geiger counters are only good for low-level radiation fields and decontamination work. For those interested, you can essentially duplicate the applications of the high range ion chamber instruments with an appropriate-range dosimeter set and a watch or timer.

Best regards
Doc

 

[Warm Wisconsin]

Good movie thanks for sharing

 

[MountainBiker]

It was well done, including how they had to function without any good information as to what was happening elsewhere. How such an event would play out will vary greatly across the country dependent on many factors.

 

[knickgnat]

Thanks for posting. I thought it was pretty good and enjoyed it.

 

[Dennis Olson]

That was a serious downer. A far better film IMO is the original On The Beach. But that's a downer too.

 

[1911user]

SPOILER ALERT: DON'T READ THIS POST IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE FILM AND WANT IT TO BE A COMPLETE SURPRISE TO YOU!

That was a serious downer. A far better film IMO is the original On The Beach. But that's a downer too.

I've never watched the original On the Beach. I have it in my video collection somewhere. I'll look for it.

It may be a downer, but Aftermath is pretty good Doomer porn. I have the DVD of it and what is on youtube (at 1080p) is full DVD quality.
I can't imagine this file, even though named vaguely or incorrectly, staying up for too long. Download it now if you want it.

EDIT: This film was fiction and followed a story setup by the fact that they had some good things in place but were lacking in others (not enough dirt shielding on the cellar, lack of group organization, and possibly air filtration into the cellar). If this is a wake up call to re-read your copy of Nuclear War Survival Skills, then good. If you don't have a paperback copy, get one. Get a NukAlert as well. Visit TB2K member Shane (KI4U website) and increase your knowledge. The doctor in the film had a clue what to do. In a future event, you may be the only "expert" around to direct others.

 

[Dennis Olson]

The film is an absolute classic, starring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner and Fred Astair. The characters are in Australia, and while the rest of the world has been destroyed by atomic war, Australia was not. However, the radiation from the Northern hemisphere is encroaching on them, and they all know in the end that their deaths are imminent. The government even issues suicide pills for every man, woman and child. Gregory Peck is an American sub captain whose boat was in Australia when the war came. He meets Ava Gardner and falls in love with her.

The clip I've attached is from when he finally gives in to his feelings for her. Everyone is frantically having a last, good day, knowing death is coming for them in a few days. Pay particular attention to the singing at the very end of the clip. I get very emotional every time I hear it. This is a very difficult film for me to watch. This clip is 5 minutes in length.

Please forgive the egregious sound quality. Turn it up during the last minute.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9sIPJ-yGjc


If you watch the entire film, I guarantee that the experience will change you.

 

[coalcracker]

Kinda turned into a zombie movie there at the end...
On the Beach is much more cerebral, but I'm ok with this one.

 

[Meadowlark]

I am glad to see Ed Furlong trying to make a career comeback. He did some excellent work before he seriously screwed himself up with drugs, beat on his girlfriend and became a guest of the California department of corrections.

 

[Meadowlark]

Kinda turned into a zombie movie there at the end...
On the Beach is much more cerebral, but I'm ok with this one.

Experiments of long term exposure to radiation on mice confirmed that such long term exposure significantly diminishes synaptic activity on the brain leading to confusion, lack of curiosity, lethargy and dumbed down behavior. Meaning that people exposed to severe but sub-lethal radiation over weeks literally would become zombie like. The experiments were conducted for the planned mars missions.

 

[Meadowlark]

Of all the nuke doomsday movies, Threads has to be the most pessimistic with population levels going below medieval population levels and western civilization going back to the dark ages.

 

[Dennis Olson]

No, On The Beach ends with every person on Earth dead.

 

[Meadowlark]

True, but I never considered on the beach to be all that realistic. At the height of the cold war there were still never enough H bombs to render the planet lifeless. A major die back in the northern hemisphere yes. But global killer radiation, I think not.

 

[Dennis Olson]

On The Beach isn't Doomer porn. It's a film about how people deal with knowing they're all going to die, and nothing they do will save them.

 

[Meadowlark]

Agree on the helplessness part, but global lethal radiation as the instrument of death is not at all realistic. It was arguably the first anti nuke film out of Hollywood.

There would be survivors in the southern hemisphere in such a war.

 

[Dennis Olson]

Naturally, but that would ruin the premise of the film. and yes, it certainly was an anti-nuke film. I chose to overlook the blatant propaganda though (just like I dd for Avatar, aka Dances With Smurfs.)

 

[Meadowlark]

The day after was a blatant anti western nuke film, intended to terrify. Rumor has it that it was bankrolled in part by the Russians. Yet today it is a footnote as a film I just watched it again recently as light entertainment. When I first saw it back in 83, it was not at all light entertainment then. Threads was intended to do the same thing.

 

[Roscoe's Daddy]

Thank you for posting. Well done for a low budget film. Like all films of this genre, technically imperfect but they serve to motivate, get you thinking, and hopefully acting, which may be their best feature. Personally, given dynamics of the multiple blasts and contamination, I just don't see how functional the unprotected freebooters could have been. Regardless, a good reminder for all of us. Time for Shane to weigh-in.

 

[L.A.B.]

All the way through awesome thanks

Ditto on headphones right next to the wife as she watched Lifetime TV movies written to scare the heck out of women.

High end intense, and not bad for covering the subject of earth shielding, localized blast emp, gunshot wounds and CQC with desperate survivors, as well as extended stay bunker psychology and group dynamics.

 

[1911user]

The day after was a blatant anti western nuke film, intended to terrify. Rumor has it that it was bankrolled in part by the Russians. Yet today it is a footnote as a film I just watched it again recently as light entertainment. When I first saw it back in 83, it was not at all light entertainment then. Threads was intended to do the same thing.

I thought The Day After (1983) was fairly accurate on the nuclear exposure issues and understated the overall effects of a nuclear war. They couldn't get too realistic and still show it on primetime TV (even with warnings) in 1983.


For anyone not aware of this film (The Day After):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iyy9n8r16hs <--------------- youtube link to the full film, The Day After; it's watchable on a computer monitor, but it's not even close to high-resolution.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085404/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 <------------Movie Database link about The Day After

 

[Doc1]

True, but I never considered on the beach to be all that realistic. At the height of the cold war there were still never enough H bombs to render the planet lifeless. A major die back in the northern hemisphere yes. But global killer radiation, I think not.

Well, I don't believe you are accurate. In all fairness, it is likely that there would be many survivors, but the fact is that even in the late fifties and throughout the sixties (and today) the US and the Soviets both had/have the technology to destroy all human life. The only question - then and now - is if anyone would want to do it. If we go back to the earlier tech, there was certainly the knowledge to create cobalt bombs and very "dirty" bombs using excessive Uranium-238 jackets surrounding hydrogen bombs. Enough of these - which the superpowers could've easily deployed - would have killed everyone. The southern hemisphere, much like "On The Beach", would have been spared the immediate effects, but would eventually succumb. Another technique which was well-understood in those times was to detonate large hydrogen bombs beneath the sea waters of target coasts. This - in addition to the usual radiological and artificial tsunami hazards - would create unimaginably large clouds of highly radioactive sodium (from the neutron-activated salt in seawater) to bathe the target countries in lethal mists.

Understand that what I've described is a fraction of the tech available in the '50s and '60s. What else do they have now? God only knows and he is really our only hope in the end.

And yes. I am dead serious.

Best regards
Doc

 

[1911user]

Thank you for posting. Well done for a low budget film. Like all films of this genre, technically imperfect but they serve to motivate, get you thinking, and hopefully acting, which may be their best feature. Personally, given dynamics of the multiple blasts and contamination, I just don't see how functional the unprotected freebooters could have been. Regardless, a good reminder for all of us. Time for Shane to weigh-in.

I agree, well done for a low budget film. That, and finding a dvd-quality version of it on youtube, is the main reason I started this thread. I'm happy with the discussion it has generated.

The freebooters could have been partially shielded for a few days in various places, especially in the critical, early days of the fallout. Eventually they had to come out to forage for food and water.
The movie (starting at 44:20) mentioned the old civil defense shelter in town couldn't hold everyone and the resulting fight's, etc.

I sent a PM to Shane about this thread. Hopefully he'll have some comments. I think, hope, that a copy of the Nuclear War Survival Skills book and a NukAlert are a good start for this possibility.

 

[shane]

I'd seen this before, but good refresher seeing again, thanks.

Their 'geiger counter' is a CD V-720, and as Doc said, it's a high range ionization chamber unit, not a geiger counter. Also, it would not have any audible clicking, that's just geiger counters that do.

If it truly was pegged out, reading max range, 500R/hr, they'd all have received a lethal dose in an hour. Very unlikely in any underground shelter that you'd ever see even a fraction of that intensity.

There's some good stuff here to motivate folks to better prep for nukes and be away from, and well armed for, unprepared desperate people, but movies like this and, especially, Threads, paint such
an overwhelmingly bleak worse case scenario that for many uninitiated and watching it they'll think it's all too largely futile to ever bother to try and then they'll do nothing at all to prep beforehand.

Nobody knows how many nukes, how big, and how close, that will also have been upwind of them that day, to ever assume it can only and always be the very worst case, and wholly unsurvivable.

For many, whether they think it is survivable or think it isn't, they will both be right. That's cause those who do think it's survivable are open to learning and prepping for it and those who don't won't.
Many downwind of even a single small nuke will perish needlessly for their wrong assumptions that it's always unsurvivable, which kept them from ever bothering to learn how to survive any nukes.

To assume it'll always be the worst case scenario and then do nothing to prep would be as wrong as a father that would not let his children, or anybody, riding in his car ever use their seat belts cause
he'd convinced himself that the only accident they could or would ever get into would be in crashing over a high cliff where seat belts then would not have saved anyone.

Read the three guides in my sig line in order for more.

- Shane

 

[nchomemaker]

Thank you Shane. I have sent your comments and the links to your web site to my dh. I am hoping that by him watching the movie, it would spur him into action. Part way through the movie he said, "I would rather die". My daughter has a house with a basement that could be turned into a fallout shelter. Part of it could be walled up, and supplies could be prepositioned, but thus far, my promptings have been ignored.

 

[CELLO]

Movie just caused me to get another bottle of fish amoxicillin while I was getting dog food at the feed store. It went up $5 since my last purchase!

 

[L.A.B.]

Movie just caused me to get another bottle of fish amoxicillin while I was getting dog food at the feed store. It went up $5 since my last purchase!

CELLO, is the fish amoxicillin sold by brand name or just ask for 'fish amoxicillin'?

Wife is big on keeping med's on hand, I look after the other side with herbs, oils, and freezed dried green plant minerals any such.

 

[1911user]

CELLO, is the fish amoxicillin sold by brand name or just ask for 'fish amoxicillin'?

Wife is big on keeping med's on hand, I look after the other side with herbs, oils, and freezed dried green plant minerals any such.

This place has quite a few options for fish meds and many other useful things: https://www.campingsurvival.com/
fish meds central: https://www.campingsurvival.com/fish-and-bird-antibiotics.html
I've never ordered from them before, but some of their MRE components are well priced.
They also have some good youtube survival type videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/CampingSurvival/videos

 

[L.A.B.]

This place has quite a few options for fish meds and many other useful things: https://www.campingsurvival.com/
fish meds central: https://www.campingsurvival.com/fish-and-bird-antibiotics.html
I've never ordered from them before, but some of their MRE components are well priced.
They also have some good youtube survival type videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/CampingSurvival/videos

Thanks 1911user, I'll give those links a look.

I like the link at Camping Survival. "Organize Adapt and Overcome". Pretty sure I heard "organize." I watched the ghee-butter YouTube. I've picked some from another source in glass and metal lid. The all metal can @ 1. 5 pounds looks like a good way to go.

Back to the movie thread:

I'd be curious as to blast overpressure-heat-gamma/X ray immediated 100% 75% 50% 25% fatalities range and then fallout maps with similar stats on Nagasaki and Hiroshima actual stats.

That movie as dark as it was, seemed about as real as one might expect that type of post nuclear attack scenario. I didn't sense overt political crap. Just the raw jagged side of the survivors of former civilized societies breakdown.

 

[Countrymouse]

Well, I don't believe you are accurate. In all fairness, it is likely that there would be many survivors, but the fact is that even in the late fifties and throughout the sixties (and today) the US and the Soviets both had/have the technology to destroy all human life. The only question - then and now - is if anyone would want to do it. If we go back to the earlier tech, there was certainly the knowledge to create cobalt bombs and very "dirty" bombs using excessive Uranium-238 jackets surrounding hydrogen bombs. Enough of these - which the superpowers could've easily deployed - would have killed everyone. The southern hemisphere, much like "On The Beach", would have been spared the immediate effects, but would eventually succumb. Another technique which was well-understood in those times was to detonate large hydrogen bombs beneath the sea waters of target coasts. This - in addition to the usual radiological and artificial tsunami hazards - would create unimaginably large clouds of highly radioactive sodium (from the neutron-activated salt in seawater) to bathe the target countries in lethal mists.

Understand that what I've described is a fraction of the tech available in the '50s and '60s. What else do they have now? God only knows and he is really our only hope in the end.

And yes. I am dead serious.

Best regards
Doc

The only question - then and now - is if anyone would want to do it.


Based on thoughts of what "surviving" in such a world--even if you do make it past the radiation / fallout--would mean---your question has a whole new meaning.

God only knows and he is really our only hope in the end.


I concur completely.

 

[MaureenO]

The only question - then and now - is if anyone would want to do it.


Based on thoughts of what "surviving" in such a world--even if you do make it past the radiation / fallout--would mean---your question has a whole new meaning.

God only knows and he is really our only hope in the end.


I concur completely.

I've only read the Bible front-to-back once, but I recall reading in some gruesome part that "the living will envy the dead." Or maybe my Catechism teacher said it.

I believe it, either way.

Maureen