Most horrifying fictional apocalypse.

[Epicspoon]

Nobody ever sees the ghost apocalypse coming. I'm currently in the process of buying up shotgun shells and replacing the the buckshot inside the shells with rock salt just in case.

 

[Hawkeye21]

Spoiler: You all loose

"Gyo" by Jinji Ito is the creepiest shit by far. The end of days comes with a horrible stench...
His "Uzumaki" is also pretty fucking terrifying, although it is kind of a local apocalypse.

Spoiler: this used to be a normal town, now the houses are like this

Spoiler: and people living there became this

And all they wanted to do, was huddle inside...

 

[Epicspoon]

The worst in my view would be the hypothetical "Grey goo" scenario. Nanomachines that have the ability to self-replicate are very dangerous things. All it would take is ONE programming error and instead of consuming hydrocarbons found in oil from oil spills they consume carbon based objects including all forms of life as we know it.

Get fire. Lots and lots of fire.

 

[Gunner 51]

The most horrible thing way the world can end. Nuclear War.
If you've ever seen Threads all the way though - you will know that the ones who get roasted alive / crushed by their own houses outside the blast zone are the really lucky ones.

Even after the nuclear winter, children will either be born sterile, cancerous, deformed or all of the above. In essence, humanity will end not with a roaring blast, but fade away crying and wimpering.

Nukes are very, very bad things.

I saw Threads at a very young age. I have to agree with Threads. Boy I had such nightmares in the 80's.

Many years later when I saw it, I asked mum if she'd seen if when she first came out - she'd replied that she had. But you can imagine my shock and pant-browning terror when she added that if the bomb were to drop, she even said that she'd have stoved my skull in rather than let the radiation, starvation or cold get me. (When one considers how unpleasant living in the aftermath of a nuclear bomb - a quick death would be downright merciful.)

 

[CorvusFerreum]

I think I will go with the classic nuclear apocalypse, because that's a realistic thread still lingering over us.

Honorary mention goes to the various possibilities 40k offers to fuck planets up. My personal favourite in this scenario is Nurgle's Rot [http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Nurgles_rot#.UYdnZsocMrk], which is a highly contaigious dissease slowly rotting away your living body. It spreads fast, kills you slowly and is completely incurable. But that's not all: It also infects you very soul and leaves this to rot as well. You don't only rot away but you are also dragged to Nurgle's realm to become a servant in his demonic armies.

I had to think for a few minutes, but I'm definitely, certainly going with 'I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream', by Harlan Ellison.

Spoiler: Don't open for plot unless you want to depress yourself.

In the recent past, the Westerners created a computer to run the war against the East. The Easterners did the same. The two computers merged into a single AI called AM (as in, 'I think, therefore I AM').

The AI does not want to wipe out humanity. Built for hate, hate is all that defines and drives it, so AM kills all but five of the humans on earth. The remaining five live deep within the earth, their cave-like environment artificially generated by the computer. They live forever, they cannot kill themselves, they life to suffer-- They are the sole outlet for AM's loathing, both of itself and of humanity.

Okay, okay, that one takes the cake. That's truly terrifying.

 

[Kyrian007]

Worst, well I'd agree

The "Thoughtpocalypse" depicted in the episodes Epitaph One and Epitaph Two of Dollhouse. The imprinting technology used in the series (which basically allowed reprogramming and storing of personalities) had been unleashed as a weapon - phone calls reprogramming people to kill everyone who's not imprinted, the wealthy and powerful using other people's bodies as backup copies, EMP-like weapons used to turn whole populations into mindless killing machines etc.

that is possibly the worst. But the most personally horrifying... It was limited to a one house area in the short story, but imagine a world wide "The Rainy Season" by Stephen King. World wide, it starts to rain toads. I don't particularly have frog fear, but that shit starts to get freaky when the rain doesn't stop, and the frogs all have razor sharp teeth and are carnivores. Until there is a flood of tons of carnivorous toads per every acre of landmass in the world? That world dies screaming.

 

[Doclector]

Daybreakers. 99.9% of the population are vampires, and the rest are either kept in blood harvesting facilities or are hunted to extinction.

That film had such a great concept. Few films seem to ask what happens after the bad guys "win", especially in the case of the many types of monsters whose greatest enemies are also their only food source.

The vampires are actually fairly civilised, most of the time. It's even said in the movie that at one point in the apocalypse, the vampires offered amnesty to the remaining humans: Join us, or be hunted down and farmed. Not an awful deal, considering that with blood stocks running high, vampirism didn't have many major drawbacks.

Problem is, the more hungry they get, the more feral they get, until they turn into mindless humanoid bat creatures, and the blood stocks are starting to run out.

We're left with the possibility of the last remaining humans being hunted down, and the last remaining vampires eventually succumbing to mutation after drinking them dry. A bleak situation where nobody wins, and nobody lives.

 

[Angie7F]

I think having a huge ayanami rei crack open in two is scary.
I would want to have turned into LCL before that happens.

 

[Epicspoon]

The worst in my view would be the hypothetical "Grey goo" scenario. Nanomachines that have the ability to self-replicate are very dangerous things. All it would take is ONE programming error and instead of consuming hydrocarbons found in oil from oil spills they consume carbon based objects including all forms of life as we know it.

Get fire. Lots and lots of fire.

And WHAT good exactly would fire do against nanobots made of metal and therefore impervious to fire?

Metal is not impervious to fire. It expands and contracts at different temperatures which would be more than enough to destroy machinery as delicate as nanobots.

 

[Strazdas]

Earth being struck out of its orbit and slowly getting closer to sun. you would cook alive, literally.

 

[Meihua]

1984 isn't *really* an apocalypse by definition, but it still gets my vote. I remember feeling so sick and horrible after watching it. Like I had this feeling of despair. Especially since its happened and is actually happening in some parts of the world (North Korea, anyone?)

 

[CrazyGirl17]

Probably any form of nuclear apocalypse, at least some of the others are survivable...

 

[Shadow-Phoenix]

Do I dare say urotsukidoji? (Don't asked me more about it, it's really awful.) Eventhought I'm a guy (just that the females in that apocalypse suffer the worse fate unless there are monsters that swing the other way) but I'm sure as hell I never want to lived in that nightmare hell hole.

I'm actually really surprised someone else on here knows of that age old anime that I only managed to watch because it was on the Scifi channel all those years ago at 4 in the morning and I managed to watch 3 of them.

Spoiler

What really mind fucked me at the time of watching the first 3 movies was the two teenagers eventually knew something world ending/bad was going to happen but they went and did it anyway and well that brought about the end of the world in the weirdest way I've seen yet (who knew risking sex could bring about a god hell bent on wiping the 3 worlds clean).

OT: I'd probably go with the Terminator universe because first you have a self aware AI launch all nukes around the world completely sending the planet into a permanent chaos state and then there's the ongoing years of suffering from the fallout, the stress and pain followed by the ruthless and cunning emotionless machines spending every waking moment to hunt you down and wipe you out.

 

[flarty]

I've downloaded the book (and also a film) "the road".
literally it is end of the line apocalypse stuff.
nothing grows anymore, there are no fish in the water to eat, nobody trusts anyone and bands of cannibals roam the land.
I assume this is because of a nuclear war but I'm not sure yet. Either way there is no hope of a better future

100% agree. Cannibalism and a horrible environment with no food.

Great film btw.

If you both enjoyed them grim tales (i don't know if enjoy is the right word). Try the divide, that truly is harrowing and grim.

 

[Tiger King]

I've downloaded the book (and also a film) "the road".
literally it is end of the line apocalypse stuff.
nothing grows anymore, there are no fish in the water to eat, nobody trusts anyone and bands of cannibals roam the land.
I assume this is because of a nuclear war but I'm not sure yet. Either way there is no hope of a better future

100% agree. Cannibalism and a horrible environment with no food.

Great film btw.

If you both enjoyed them grim tales (i don't know if enjoy is the right word). Try the divide, that truly is harrowing and grim.

ok, thanks i shall look into it

 

[Owlslayer]

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Well now, thanks to you i just spent at least 3 hours on that SCP wiki. I want to close the tabs, but i can't! They keep on coming, more and more. And some of the stuff in there is pretty spooky indeed. Tho some of it is quite funny as well. Very interesting.

But on topic: I guess I have to go with your version of the apocalypse. I mean, nothing worse comes to mind. Tho a nuclear one would be pretty bad, as well.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Do I dare say urotsukidoji? (Don't asked me more about it, it's really awful.) Eventhought I'm a guy (just that the females in that apocalypse suffer the worse fate unless there are monsters that swing the other way) but I'm sure as hell I never want to lived in that nightmare hell hole.

I'm actually really surprised someone else on here knows of that age old anime that I only managed to watch because it was on the Scifi channel all those years ago at 4 in the morning and I managed to watch 3 of them.

Spoiler

What really mind fucked me at the time of watching the first 3 movies was the two teenagers eventually knew something world ending/bad was going to happen but they went and did it anyway and well that brought about the end of the world in the weirdest way I've seen yet (who knew risking sex could bring about a god hell bent on wiping the 3 worlds clean).

OT: I'd probably go with the Terminator universe because first you have a self aware AI launch all nukes around the world completely sending the planet into a permanent chaos state and then there's the ongoing years of suffering from the fallout, the stress and pain followed by the ruthless and cunning emotionless machines spending every waking moment to hunt you down and wipe you out.

Honestly I think the first film is pretty much has a subtle/ hidden message to wear a condom, otherwise you're bring the whole apocalypse if you don't wear one!!!

 

[G3]

I've downloaded the book (and also a film) "the road".
literally it is end of the line apocalypse stuff.
nothing grows anymore, there are no fish in the water to eat, nobody trusts anyone and bands of cannibals roam the land.
I assume this is because of a nuclear war but I'm not sure yet. Either way there is no hope of a better future

Yeah that would be mine too because it's just bleak. No hope. I played I Am Alive and thought a lot of that was taken from The Road. You get such a "what's really the point, it never gets better" mood going.

 

[FalloutJack]

The most horrifying apocalypse must be with a virus that causes everlasting terror via the chemicals in your brain. Ergo, you MUST be horrified to the greatest extent whether you like it or not.

It's not always about who creates the biggest spectacle.

 

[bigwon]

The 2 movies Alien (if they exterminated humans on earth) and Planet Terror. Either of those would be relatively uncomfortable last moments.