Doomsday - the post-apocalyptic horror/thriller - is coming to DVD and Blu-Ray on July 28. To celebrate, Beer.com is dedicating an entire week to all things end of the world!

That's right, every day this week we'll be taking a look at a movie or a series of movies that showed us a bleak vision of the future - the end of the world!

It's Beer.com's DOOM WEEK!

Escape from New York (1981)

It's 1997 - society's downfall has been caused by, well, society's downfall. The crime rate has risen 400%, and the island of Manhattan has been turned into the world's largest prison.

Where every inmate is sentenced to life.

On top of the United State's crumble, the Soviet Union still exists, and the Cold War hasn't ended - the threat of nuclear war still looms over the world. If that's not a dystopian future I don't know what it.

Not to mention that in the sequel (Escape from L.A.), the city of Los Angeles has been turned into an island by a 9.6 magnitude earthquake! It seems that in this future, the US has been butchered worse than Tara Reid's boob job.

The action in our tale begins when Air Force One is hijacked, and the president (on his way to an anti-war summit with the Soviet Union and China) is crashed directly into Manhattan. Surviving, he's held hostage by the island's inhabitants in exchange for freedom.

The government decides to take drastic measures, and enlists the help of the baddest mother f*cker in the world - Snake Pliskin (Kurt Russel) - to save the president and avoid nuclear war.

Is Snake - an inmate himself - trustworthy enough to save the president and the world? If not he'll at least bust some skulls on his way to do it.

The lawlessness portrayed in the Escape series has become a staple of post-apocalyptic films since its release in 1981 - with scores of inmates banding together to form their own societies.

Further influences from the Escape series can be seen in videogames like the Metal Gear Solid series, where the main character (Solid Snake) has been noted to say "I'm not an enemy. Calm down. My name is S... My name is Pliskin. Iroquois Pliskin, Lieutenant Junior Grade" (Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty).

Look for the influence Escape from New York has had on modern day doomsday films in Doomsday!

DOOM WEEK is brought to you by Doomsday, available on DVD and Blue-Ray July 28!