Guns of the Apocalypse is the thirteenth film by Christopher R. Mihm and the thirteenth film in the Mihmiverse Shared Universe. It is described as a "post-apocalyptic-spaghetti-Midwestern."
Set sometime after the events of The Late Night Double Feature, an unnamed man returns to Earth from the colony on Alpha Centauri to find an Earth devastated by nuclear war. Forced into a world of danger and bloodshed after he saves a scientist and a gifted child from a horde of radiation-scarred mutants. Though he would prefer to stay hidden until he can escape to a new life, something about the child — and the murderous "Death Dealers" hunting her — makes him realize he has no choice but to protect her or risk being responsible for the potential extinction of the human race.
This film provides examples of:
- After the End: Set two years after a nuclear war destroyed most of the Earth.
- Creator Cameo: Christopher R. Mihm provides the voice of The Unnamed Man.
- Credits Gag: No critters were harmed (or cooked into stew) in the making of this film.
- Downer Ending: Hope kills the Reverend and saves the Unnamed Man with her powers, but the Unnamed Man sacrifices his chance to escape the Earth so that Hope and Faith can have a better life in the off-world colony.
- End of the World as We Know It: World War III scenario.
- Exactly What It Says on the Tin: The title says it all.
- Genre Mash Up: It's a Spaghetti Western set after the End of the World as We Know It.
- Homage: To The '50s Sci-Fi Horror and Spaghetti Westerns.
- Hunter of Monsters: The Unnamed Man.
- Meaningful Name: Several.
- The girl who represents the last, best hope for humanity is named Hope.
- The scientist protecting Hope is named Faith.
- Monstrous Cannibalism: The mutants have turned to this.
- Mutants: Two variations.
- Most of humanity has become the flesh-eating zombie mutate variant after the End of the World as We Know It.
- Hope is revealed to be a Mutant with Healing Hands powers.
- Nuke 'em: The world was destroyed by a nuclear war.
- Shout-Out: Several.
- The general tone largely mimics The Last Man on Earth, with a protagonist struggling for survival while fighting an increasingly futile battle against the mutants that threaten to overtake him.
- The protagonist is a No Name Given scientist simply known as The Unnamed Man, like in the Dollars Trilogy.
- Douglas Sidney's Reverend seems to be an imitation of Burton Gilliam.
- Transformation Horror: With few exceptions, mankind has been warped into flesh-eating mutants following World War III.
- World War III: Destroyed most of the planet and mutated most of the survivors into savage zombies.
