The scariest movie you will see this year, or next (if there is a next year),
Collapse might be described as the non-fiction prequel to Cormac McCarthy's
The Road. It's Armageddon 101. You can dismiss cop turned whistleblower turned journalist Michael Ruppert as a paranoiac, but you won't doubt his sincerity or his lucidity as he spells out the ramifications of peak oil for the planet – and in particular, the well being of those of us who have built our homes on an economic system he describes as a giant pyramid scheme predicated on ever-expanding growth. Of all the many documentaries that have come out of the global economic meltdown, this is the one that pulls everything together, and asks the deepest and most alarming questions. Is Ruppert right? By the time we find out it will almost certainly be too late.
"An intellectual horror film that ranks as an essential work" – Rob Nelson, Variety
"Mesmerizing. There are many layers to the man and the movie, and I for one left the theater shaken.' - Scott Tobias, The Onion
"A pulverizing film. Jolted and melted me down like no documentary has in a long, long while." - Jeffery Wells, Hollywood Elsewhere
