Beneath the Planet of the Apes

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Watched With: Myself

Dire.

This could actually be my favourite. I'm a sucker for post-apocalyptic dystopia and I love all the imagery of the ruined city.

Man, this film is dark dark dark. There's barley an ounce of hope in it. They took the horrific realisation of the first film and ran with it to a logical conclusion. It's none too happy.

The idea of mutant humans worshiping a bomb is fantastic. I find their telepathic communication is a nice idea but the execution is a little dated. However the look of them is still pretty darn freaky.

The new human character looks exactly like Heston from the first film. A little confusing.

This one seemed to put a pretty solid full stop on the story, but that didn't stop them from making more. Of course there's no way you can continue the story after the events in this film but the way the loop it back is pretty neat. One of the reason I always liked the series.