Heh, heh, so you dig post-atomic futuramas like I do! “The Day the Earth Caught Fire” is similar but they’re all worth watching for their depiction of mass panic and breakdown of law & order. “The Last Man on Earth” was to me Vincent Price’s scariest horror flick; `what if that were me’ is what you ask when you watch it.
‘Course, I wsa there as a kid to see “Alas Babylon” on Playhouse 90, and to witness the great fallout shelter building craze (superb article in Smithsonian magazine on what they’re used for now) and several Twilight Zone episodes touched on nuclear aftermath. In a way it was fun because we knew the Soviets weren’t that stupid (atheists don’t do jihad all that well).
Anyway, I hope you’re right about the post-Obama swing voters having buyer’s remorse. Sounds like a solid conservative Republican will get their support and it’s the Dems who will have to try to seduce them a second time.
Last Man On Earth is OK,Omega Man, too but the book they’re based on—I Am Legend by Richard Matheson—is better. (Matheson wrote the screenplay for Last Man... thinking it was for another, better-financed company, and put his pseudonym on it when it came out, much changed, as Last man...
BTW, Matheson wrote many of the best Twilight Zone episodes.
Alas, Babylon is a great book, as is Earth Abides. Both are far better than on the Beach, imho. You owe it to yourself to read A Canticle For Leibowitz if you haven’t. It’s one of the few examples of this I call literature.