Apocalypse Later: Harold Camping vs The End of the World

2014 • 69 minutes

About this movie

Harold Camping sounded the alarm. May 21, 2011 was to be Judgment Day, God's intervention into our worldly affairs. The end is coming right now! Or, perhaps a little later.

Ratings and reviews

I was planning on giving this film 4 stars... My only complaint was the score/music. It was VERY repetitive; seemingly every new scene would be opened with the same musical theme (or a slight variation) accompanying it. Being the picky whiner that I am, this annoyed the HELL out of me, and was the GENESIS of my plan to drop the rating a star. Mere moments ago, the idea REVEALED ITSELF TO ME, that the effect may have been planned; i.e. perhaps the filmmakers used this as a metaphorical device... Harold, after all, certainly did keep "playing the same tune" for decades, not just a mere ~70 minutes. Surprisingly, even after "May twenty-one" came and went, with no apocalypse. (spolier alert! You're not dead... OR ARE YOU?) Staying true to his OG cred/staunch dogmatic form, he continued "camping" if you will, on the idea that he knew the big, big secret. What a scammer. PT Barnum would've been proud. Kudos to filmmakers Zeke Piestrup and Carl "Sir Millard Mulch/Dr Zoltan Obelisk" King. Oh, and Bart Ehrman can suck a...