Mutant World (2014) on Netflix
Marcus King has prepared for doomsday for years. When a meteor heads for Earth, he gets his son and daughter into a missile silo. A decade on, Melissa leads a team outside.
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Plot summary
Marcus King, a doomsday prepper, has spent years getting ready for the end of the world. He and his son Geoff spot a huge meteor on a course for Earth, and it looks ready to strike a nuclear reactor. King gathers his small, heavily armed group, and most of them reach his bunker, an old missile silo, before the meteor hits. Geoff and King's daughter Melissa are inside, but her boyfriend Caden is not, and neither is King. Ten years later, food and medicine are running out, and a disturbance outside cuts the bunker's power. Melissa, now the leader, takes Geoff, Rogan, Shaina and Tyler out to repair it, watched by a woman in black. The air outside can be breathed, and the radiation from the meteorite has turned other survivors into cannibals.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Mutant World (2014)
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- Mutant World was shot in just fifteen days, in Calgary, Strathmore and the CL Ranch near Springbank, with the old Telus Science Centre serving as the bunker's interiors. Kim Coates, the film's biggest name, said that when he read the script and heard the schedule he "lost my s, t."
- Kim Coates, cast as the film's star power from Sons of Anarchy, has a role that needed only three days of filming. The Calgary producers Chad Oakes and Mike Frislev, who had cast him in the 2008 drama 45 R.P.M., asked him to star, and he insisted on script changes to give his character a more poignant arc.
- Writer Matt Campagna did on-the-fly re-writes, ran a camera, animated graphics and supervised the visual effects on the low-budget film, joking in his blog that among all that he had "some time to do a bit of directing."
- Matt Campagna called the shoot "a pretty wild time" and was happy to have been given "the gift of gorgeous snowfalls," saying you cannot even pay for that kind of production value.
