What is your favorite virus/pandemic movie?

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Keep in mind, zombie movies  do not  count.

nightdrot · Accepted Answer

Not sure if it quite counts, but Omega Man, with Charelton Heston always stuck out in my head.

Made in the 1970s about a bio-war between the USSR - as it was back in the Cold War - and China. The disease wipes out most of the population, leaving behind vampire-like humans who can only live in the darkness and who form a cult. Heston in the scientist who was able to inject himself with the cure and is left - he thinks - as the only human left. The "family" as the infected humans call themselves, want Heston dead as he is the symbol of the modernity and technology that destroyed the world.

The film has many of the weaknesses of the films of that time. Still, it is remarkably moody and even has some serious thematic ideas - including, interestingly, some Christian themes - and is pretty effective.

It spooked me as a kid - the soundtrack sticks in my brain to this day - and it remains in my head to this day. As I say, I am not sure that it quite qualifies as a virus/pandemic movie by your definition, but it at least deserves honorable mention.

StephenCF · Accepted Answer

It might not be the greatest film, but I’m just gonna say “The Happening” because it’s the only pandemic movie I can think of that I watched in full ☠️🎞

sparke328 · Accepted Answer

Flu. Korean movie about a rapid and deadly virus that turns a city mad. Very interesting and you can find it on Amazon prime video. Here's the trailer:

Minnie97 · Accepted Answer

Does the movie The Bay count? It's not an illness type thing but its isopods that get into your body and eat you from the inside out.

pervertedjester · Answer

If you look at it from my eyes then  Super Mario Bros. A giant Fungus takes over the Mushroom Kingdom because of poor plumbing for decades which ends up mutating all life, causing Mario and Luigi's ultimate destiny to change forever as they try to fix it!

Obtuse · Answer

I usually don't like these films but Blindness was sorta interesting. Also The Crazies, Omega Man, The Andromeda Strain

AlexBlack007 · Answer

Just movies? "I Am Legend" and "World War Z" I think. If I can mention videogames, then my favorite pandemic story is The Last Of Us.

bente2 · Answer

Omg, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE! I literally bought it on itunes just a few days before quarantine and have watched it 7 times since.

Alice2398 · Answer

. Cloverfield . 10 Cloverfield Lane. . A Quiet Place. . bird box.

TahoeHiker · Answer

DIEHARD is my favorite virus movie.  Why? Because there is no virus just "cool" funny terrorists. And the guy saves his girl, on Christmas eve

WhereAmI · Answer

That movie where the guy lies in front of a lawnmower? Something given off by the trees?

MountAverage · Answer

But there's a picture of a zombie movie under your question! 😄

Billfold · Answer

The one in the pic...28 Days Later. Skip 28 Weeks Late - just dreadful.

meesegoMoo · Answer

Where does "I am legend" fall into that?

DizzyDesii · Answer

Doom, The Invasion, Hobbs & Shaw

abc3643 · Answer

Contagion is excellent.

ailukkhan4 · Answer

Maybe the one with Gwyneth Paltrow

Liadon · Answer

I quite liked 'Children of Men'

Sixgun77 · Answer

The Mimic series of movies.

MarkRet · Answer

The Stand.

Itsme1999 · Answer

A series: the last man on earth

smahala1991 · Answer

Contagion

Likes2drive · Answer

Probably “The Stand” and “12 Monkeys”

COMMODOREII · Answer

I don't remember ever really watching one

nikhilesh412 · Answer

'Virus' movie from India...

msk01kxx · Answer

I am Legend 28 days later World war Z

888theGreat · Answer

Girls Ask Guys: The Movie

TacocaT6969 · Answer

I am legend.

KrakenAttackin · Answer

Here is an old one: Andromeda Strain.

Hannahbrewer2003 · Answer

Outbreak

anmari2001 · Answer

The Trojan horse

Agape93 · Answer

Outbreak

nieceybaby · Answer

I am legend

ajay3198 · Answer

I am legend

Playero_Culebra · Answer

6 o'clock news

Cherrylicious · Answer

Cabin Fever

sdrawkcabosmi · Answer

Earth 2020

NortyRich · Answer

28 days

Anonymous · Answer

Qyamat city under threatened

BButterfly · Answer

The Flu

Anonymous · Answer

The Omega Man.

Numbnuts89 · Answer

Contagion!

George090 · Answer

Saw 1239473847

jakeofalltrades · Answer

The Crazies

DampCloth · Answer

the one zombie movie

TienShenhan · Answer

28 days later

aly34 · Answer

None.

Hispanic-Cool-Guy · Answer

Outbreak.

Handysandy69 · Answer

Corona 2k20

Jmmmfi4 · Answer

I am legend

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