Apocalyptic Movies And Shows On Netflix That Make Us Want To Bunker Down (2025)

Premise: Humanity has been judged and is to be wiped out by mysterious entities. If you gaze upon them, you're compelled to kill yourself, and the world dies off with massive suicides. Also, if you see the entities, you'll try to force others to do so before offing yourself, so there are numerous dangerous obstacles. Surviving means covering your eyes so you can't see the entities. Of course, this only makes surviving attacks from unblindfolded survivors more difficult.

How Doomed The World Is: In Bird Box, the world as we know it is effectively over. What few survivors remain must do so without opening their eyes to the world. Doing so will result in insanity and perishing, so short of blinding oneself, a blindfold will only do so much.

How Likely Would You Survive: Most people wouldn't survive due to the sheer number of unblindfolded people. Also, most people aren't used to surviving in a world without sight, so the vast majority of people who take the precaution of blindfolding themselves wouldn't likely survive, either.

Premise: God has lost faith in humanity and dispatches his angels to destroy everyone. Michael falls to Earth and severs his wings, believing there is still hope. He arrives at a diner on the edge of the Mojave Desert and informs a pregnant woman that she carries humanity's savior. They fight off hordes of possessed people before Gabriel arrives and turns the heat up to 11. Ultimately, humanity is left to fight for itself, with a little angelic help.

How Doomed The World Is: The world in Legion isn't entirely doomed… yet. While it seems doomed from the onset, there's hope for humanity in the baby born in the diner. Whether or not humanity can survive God's latest decision to wipe them out is up to the survivors, who must follow the Word and restore God's faith in humanity and his angels.

How Likely Would You Survive: In all likelihood, most ordinary folks not associated with Michael wouldn't survive. They are the puppets the avenging angels use to wipe out humanity, and there's no proper defense against possession.

Premise: The zombie plague took the world by storm, reanimating the dead with an insatiable hunger for living flesh. Small pockets of survivors remain, but various hazards in the new world are constantly trying to eliminate them. And it doesn't help that everyone is infected. A bite is fatal and turns a person into a walker, but when they die naturally or from any other cause, they still turn, ensuring the world is truly the domain of the dead.

How Doomed The World Is: The world as we knew it is gone, but there's hope for the survivors if they band together. The walkers in The Walking Dead aren't the true villains of the story; the most dangerous things out there are other survivors, many of whom kill mercilessly, enslave their captives, or worse. Anyone who hopes to survive needs to do so with a strong team, or they'll succumb, sooner or later, to other survivors or the walking dead.

How Likely Would You Survive: Most people aren't surviving this series, and that's clear by the vast number of undead walking across the landscape. If you find a good group of survivors who will work together and fight off anyone who tries to hurt the group, you might survive, but expect to lose people along the way.

Premise: When a high school teacher in Hyosan, Korea, unwittingly causes his school to become overrun with zombies, the outbreak extends to the entire city. As people on the outside attempt to contain the deadly zombie outbreak, the survivors left inside the city must work together to reach safety.

How Doomed The World Is: The world in All of Us Are Dead isn't doomed just yet, seeing as the outbreak is mostly contained. That said, getting things under control is no easy task.

How Likely Would You Survive: A person's ability to survive in this world is pretty much the same as any zombified place, but there's a catch. Because the outbreak is mostly contained in a small area, the odds of survival diminish significantly, as there are very few means of escape (and the dead only grow in number with each kill). Working together is the key to surviving the zombie plague in All of Us Are Dead.

Premise: Strange things begin to happen around a family staying at a vacation rental outside of New York City. The animals in the surrounding woods behave oddly, and a young boy is infected with a disease after something bites him. Paranoia runs rampant as things begin to devolve, and it appears that, somehow, civilization has collapsed. It's theorized that everything is merely the first wave in an attempt to disrupt and destroy the United States from within, and while this is seemingly proven in the end, it's never confirmed.

How Doomed The World Is: The world isn't entirely doomed in Leave the World Behind, but it appears to be on the verge of several hardships moving forward. On top of the unusual occurrences, someone bombs NYC, and there's a good chance the survivors will face extreme hunger in the very near future.

How Likely Would You Survive: Anyone who prepared themselves well enough may survive for some time in a bunker, but many dangers in this new world order are likely to make survival difficult for even the most prepared people.

Premise: After a virus carried by rainfall wipes out nearly every human on the planet, few remain in small pockets. The Rain is set in Denmark, where almost everyone has succumbed to the virus. Six years after the first deadly rainfall, a group of survivors emerge to search for their father, who left the bunker and never returned. He's not merely their father but also a scientist who may hold some answers and, if they're fortunate, a cure.

How Doomed The World Is: The world is pretty doomed in The Rain, seeing as it rains pretty much wherever people populate. Surviving in places where it rarely rains is extremely difficult, though not impossible. There is a small hope of survival for the human race.

How Likely Would You Survive: Depending on where you lived when the deadly rain began to fall, there's a good chance you're not going to survive the rain, seeing as it rains pretty much everywhere people tend to live. If you have access to a decent shelter, and you don't get caught in a downpour, you may just make it.