Films like Armageddon and Deep Impact tap into some kind of millennial hysteria. Mother Earth is extremely pissed off, and this time we're playing for higher stakes. In these films 2000 is always a big wipe-out. As an alternative, try The Hole . Here, panic is a slow crawl, and terror is a cumulative force.
Every day is another challenge.
The Hole is the filler Kafka never added to the introduction of Metamorphosis. In Taiwan there are 7 days to go before the turn of the century and millennium. A voice fills us over the black screen as plain white credits appear. A strange virus is sweeping the city. Garbage collectors are on strike.