Dark Dreams of Disaster

When I was younger I had dreams/nightmares of living in a post-apocalyptic/barren/scorched Earth future.
I'm not necessarily sure that I'd be one to survive any kind of mass hysteria mob, frenzied or slo-mo version zombies, a plague/virus, an alien invasion, or nuclear strike, but a boy-nerd can dream, can't he?

While these all weren't necessarily post-apocalyptic they fueled the fire:

Roleplaying games
Mad-Max/The Road Warrior/BeyondThunderdome
The Police's Syncronicity II video
Pat Frank's Alas, Babylon
Soylent Green
The Omega Man
The Day After
Stephen King's The Stand (superflu!)
The Tripod Trilogy by John Christopher
Red Dawn
Night of the Comet
1984
Max Headroom
Blade Runner
Zombie movies --
Night of... Dawn of... Day of..., the bad remakes, and sequels,
28 Days Later, etc.
And of course, growing up during the Ronald Reagan era of the Cold War.

I bring up all of these because I was just introduced to a new source:
Miracle Mile starring Anthony Edwards and Mare Winningham.
Granted, I just watched a heavily edited version, (UPN on a Sunday afternoon will do that to you and it seems as if whole scenes have been wiped) however it's the very short period of mass hysteria that grabbed me so quickly. From the time we see the police bolting from the "cop killer" as they are informed of the imminent to when Edwards and Winningham make it back to the rooftop heli-pad can't be more than a few minutes in "real-time," but it's enough intensity to get me to stop surfing.

In it's fully non-edited version, it's probably not the best of the aforementioned pack, as oddly enough it starts out much like a romantic comedy of sorts... but thank goodness it's out on DVD so I can make that determination myself. Of course, Netflix has pointed me in the direction of some others.
(Threads --the UK version of The Day After, an '83 pic called Testament, A Boy and his Dog, and Luc Besson's Le Dernier Combat)
Maybe you can make some suggestions too?