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The 10 best underground sci-fi movies to dig into now that 'Silo' season 3 has ended
We're going deeper underground; there's too much panic in this town.
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Unless you’re a naked mole rat or a worm-lizard, you were never meant to live your life out underground like the poor doomsday denizens of Apple TV's "Silo."
Season 3 has revealed how a trillionaire industrialist named Per Stenson (Colin Hanks) funded the insane project to build 50 subterranean bunkers in Georgia, housing 10,000 people each, as a bold failsafe effort against humanity’s inevitable extinction in the face of global nanotech warfare.
Hollywood has mined the sci-fi subgenre of underground exploratory movies for decades, and it’s amusing to see how real science has been either faithfully depicted or completely ignored over the years.
Regardless of geological accuracy, venturing into unnatural environments unfit for sun-seeking individuals makes for fantastic drama, from titles like "Journey to the Center of the Earth" and "The Core" to "The Mole People" and "City of Ember."
Let’s burrow into this list of subterranean sci-fi flicks to see which ones rise to the top!
Release date: December 1, 1956 | Director: Virgil W. Vogel
We sure love a campy black-and-white creature feature, and this 1950s favorite ticks all the boxes.
Descend thousands of feet into the center of the Earth and meet this unknown Egyptian-like empire of darkness where vicious mole monsters exist in subterranean lairs. Archaeologists and scientists join a globe-trotting expedition to find a tunnel leading to this lost civilization of pale-skinned Sumerians who enslave these hideous mole mutants to harvest their mushroom crops.