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Mad Max 2

Name: Mad Max 2
Genre: Pyropunk, Apocapunk
Released: 1981

George Miller1981

Pyropunk
Apocapunk

After the end
Survival
Fire and heat

Through Pyropunk

Released in the US as The Road Warrior: a war over the last fuel in a sun-baked wasteland, and the birth of the post-apocalyptic look.

Through Apocapunk

Released as The Road Warrior in the US: a besieged oil refinery, a gang of leather-clad raiders, and the chase that fixed the genre's look for forty years.