The future is now! Now is a scary place to be! Climate change, economic woes, global instability, the world is looking more and more like what dystopian sci-fi thinkers said it would. While George Orwell and Aldous Huxley made some scarily accurate predictions for the modern day, modern filmmakers are adding their own paralyzingly prescient observations to the pot. While the Bad Old Days of yesteryear were ugly enough, these films make audiences pine for the modern-day devil we know, rather than the futuristic devil we don’t. Here are 10 films that predicted the future, and that future isn’t exactly bright.
