The Repo Men film is a dark, at times comedic dystopia with plenty of action and tension. Essentially it is about a Credit Union repo man –the kind that takes your car if you don’t make your payments– except instead of cars, he repossesses artificial organs (artiforgs), almost always killing the client in the process. [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘dystopia’
01/10/2010
Lunar Braceros: 2125-2148 by Rosaura Sánchez and Beatrice Pita (Book Review)
Lunar Braceros (Calaca Press, 2009) is a science fiction novella set in a dystopian 22nd century in which class relations have taken a turn for the worse and where corporate greed is barely limited by the State. The United States is no longer united; after an east-west war some U.S. states joined several Mexican states [...]
12/30/2009
Abandonados (The Abandoned), Chile’s World War III Film (Trailer)
Recently premiered in Chile, Abandonados (The Abandoned) presents a dystopian Chile after World War III. Based on the short Calor 2052, survivors try to live on despite their memories, loneliness, and ensuing madness. The young director is David Contreras Silva, fellow genre geek and comic book artist, who previously directed gore film Demencia (Dementia). Looks [...]
10/01/2009
Oasis Terminal, Colombian Sci-Fi Short
Check out the dystopian short Oasis Terminal by Colombian filmmaker Rubén Fernández. The story is about a young man that dreams of finding The Oasis, a genetic vault that contains all the necessary biological material to restart the world after war ravages the planet. There is of course, a real seed vault near the North [...]
