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!

The Planet of the APes (1968)

We're talking about the original Planet of the Apes, not that hideous remake from (normally awesome) director Tim Burton. No, we'll strike that one from the record and go with this classic, adapated from the novel of the same name.

We join out crew of astronaughts, helmed by the manliest man of the time period, Charlton Heston, as they are in deep hibernation aboard their deep space trip.

It seems that they've overshot their mark and have been at near-light-speed travel for, oh, 2006 bloody years. It's the year 3978 and our travellers crash land in a lake on a strange planet.

They find plant life first, then primative humans tending to a field - only to suddenly be pursued by evolved apes on horseback!

There Taylor (Heston) learns that his fellow survivors have either been killed or lobotomized, and that gorillas, orangutans, and chimpanzees have taken the roles of traditional humans. They're doctors, lawyers, police officers... and worse, humans are considered vermin! Nothing more than animals to be experimented on.

Taylor finds other caged humans, but all primative mutes - with the help Zira, a friendly chimpanzee, Taylor and the other humans escape to a "forbidden" cave where they find evidence of an advanced civilization of humans that once lived on the planet.

In his explorations, and the final sence of the film, Taylor sees it - the destroyed ruins of the statue of liberty! It seems that war has destroyed the civilizations of man and he was on Earth all along - "You damn dirty apes - you blew it up!"

The twist apocalypse ending - the sudden revelation - has been used many times in many films, including another Charlton Heston flick Soylent Green. Wondering what influences Planet of the Apes has on modern Doomsday films? Check out Doomsday on DVD July 28!

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