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Disaster Movie
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Films whose plots revolve around something huge, horrible, and natural heading towards the protagonists, and their reactions to it. About half have the main characters trying to stop the disaster somehow, while the other half have them simply trying to survive. In both varieties, viewers are introduced to large casts that exist solely to be killed off in various ways by the disaster and its side effects. Meteors, tornadoes, earthquakes, volcanoes, and catastrophic climate change are among the popular subjects. People who watch these movies are typically Just Here for Godzilla. The genre became incredibly popular in The '70s, with Irwin Allen becoming (in)famous for making a number of these movies. Eventually, like all trends in Hollywood, it burned itself out, finally being killed when Airplane! tore into the genre. Modern special effects helped revive the disaster movie in The '90s, until certain events made scenes of cataclysmic destruction rather insensitive. This aversion swiftly passed, therefore making this trope a textbook case of Cyclic National Fascination. Alien Invasion and especially kaiju movies tend to be very similar in tone to disaster movies, with their focus on destruction. Not to be confused with the Seltzer and Friedberg movie of the same name. |
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2012 (2009): The Mayan prophecies of The End of the World as We Know It start coming true. Lots of stuff blows up. An aircraft carrier crushes the White House and St. Peter's dome imitates a bowling ball. | |
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Gray Lady Down (1978): A nuclear U.S. Navy sub sinks after colliding with a Norwegian freighter, trapping its crew and necessitating a dangerous rescue effort. | |
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The Swarm (1978) (1978): In another Irwin Allen effort, killer bees attack Texas. Yeah. The genre began dying out with this movie's failure. | |
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The Big Bus (1976): Genre parody. On the maiden voyage of a luxury transcontinental coach (nuclear-powered, double-decker, equipped with a bowling alley, cocktail lounge, swimming pool, and dining room) the crew must deal with a series of disasters and sabotages. | |
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When Worlds Collide (1951): A star called Bellus is expected to collide with Earth. A group of astronomers are tasked with constructing a ship that could save whatever remains of the human species. | |
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Testament (1983): Another made-for-TV film, this time for PBS, similar to The Day After. The key difference is that rather than focusing on the direct effects of a nuclear exchange like its network counterpart (in fact, outside of a bright flash, said exchange is never shown onscreen), it focuses on a small California town that manages to initially escape being destroyed by the bombs, only to soon deal with the collapse of the outside world, and eventually radioactive fallout. Much less intense and well-known than The Day After, but nonetheless heartbreaking and just as, if not moreso critically acclaimed, to the point of actually getting a theatrical release. | |
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Gravity (2012): The destruction of a satellite leads to Disaster Dominoes as each piece of debris impacts other satellites and space stations, with a Minimalist Cast of two astronauts trying to survive it. | |
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Aftershock (2012): A group of people surviving the aftermath of an earthquake in Chile. | |
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Titanic (1997): What happens when you combine a disaster movie with a Chick Flick. The latest in a long line of films about the Titanic disaster, and by far the most famous and popular. | |
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The Day After (1983): A very different sort of disaster movie, which is the reason it was able to escape Airplane!'s shadow. It was a TV movie made for ABC about nuclear war between the USA and the USSR. It doesn’t go well, to put it lightly. It, along with its British equivalent, was effective enough at showing the result of a nuclear war that it is widely credited (by, among other people, Ronald Reagan) for inspiring the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty in 1987. | |
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Into the Storm (2014): A Found Footage Film following a number of people trying to survive a barrage of super-tornadoes. Much Stuff Blowing Up ensues, like the tornadoes razing a fully loaded airport, and even one making a gas main explode, turning into a massive firenado. | |
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Smallpox 2002: Aired on The BBC in 2002, but didn't air in America till 2005, about a (fictional) smallpox pandemic spread by a bioterrorist. | |
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The Hamburg Syndrome (1979): About the sudden outbreak of a deadly disease in Hamburg and the West German government's attempts to quarantine the city and stop its spread. | |
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No Blade of Grass (1970): When a new strain of blight destroys all members of the grass family, society descends into chaos as hundreds of millions starve. | |
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After Darkness (2019): A rich family hunkers down and tries to survive the aftermath of the sun going out. | |
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Volcano (1997): A volcano erupts in Los Angeles. Not so notable for scientific accuracy. Starred Tommy Lee Jones. | |
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Fire Twister (2015): A group of ecologists are prompted to stop a firenado destroying multiple cities in California after witnessing its spawn. It notably stands out from other disaster movies in that the disaster in question, rather than occurring naturally or out of nowhere, was actually man-made and planned, courtesy of a CIA bomb exploding at a storage tank. | |
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This Is the End (2013): A disaster comedy parody film that focuses on a house party filled with celebrities trying to survive the end of days. | |
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Airplane! (1980): The Parody of the disaster genre. So effective, it made it nearly impossible for disaster movies to be taken seriously for another thirteen years. | |
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Sharknado (2013) and its sequels have been hugely successful due to the entirely ridiculous and over the top premise of combining two entirely unrelated and incompatible disasters together. Has pretty much become an Affectionate Parody. | |
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Silent Night (2021): A group of Britons try to enjoy a farewell Christmas dinner party before a climate-change induced toxic storm arrives to kill them all. | |
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Escape the Museum 1 and 2 take place in the immediate wake of a devastating earthquake, with the main characters crossing all manner of hazards to reunite as a family. | |
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Avalanche (1978): Exactly What It Says on the Tin. | |
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The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961): London journalists gradually discover that simultaneous A-bomb tests on opposite ends of the globe have knocked Earth off its axis and sent it hurtling toward the Sun. | |
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The Dark Knight Rises (2012): Word of God maintains that mixes this in with a Superhero film due to the sheer scope of Bane's plot to destroy Gotham. | |
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13 Minutes (2021): Four families deal with their own personal issues (a married TV meteorologist and emergency management official raising their deaf daughter, a young adult daughter of a teen mom dealing with whether to keep her unplanned pregnancy, a closeted gay teen struggling to come out to his socially conservative parents, and a hotel employee trying to start a new life with her undocumented immigrant fiancée) as a monster tornado descends upon their small Oklahoma town. An independent film featuring Amy Smart, Anne Heche, Peter Facinelli, Paz Vega and Trace Adkins. | |
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Made-for-TV Movie: Since the advent of video tape, TV production has often been cheaper than film. This allows more money for an All-Star Cast and Stuff Blowing Up. (Sometimes called the Movie of the Week or Million Dollar Movie.) Even in the 1970s there were about as many made-for-TV disaster movies as theatrical ones, another reason the genre initially burnt out at the turn of the 1980s. | |
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The Johnstown Flood: The Ur-Example. A fictionalized account of the Real Life Johnstown Flood aka Great Flood of 1889, in which a dam outside Johnstown, PA failed, killing 2200 people. | |
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Flight Crew: A mid air rescue between two planes fleeing a volcanic eruption. | |
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Earthquake (1974): An earthquake destroys Los Angeles. Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, and Lorne Greene try to survive. This was the first of a handful of '70s films to use Sensurround, a special surround sound system with a powerful bass line. When the city started to rumble, crumble, and tumble, the bass kicked in to literally shake up audiences. | |
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Moonfall (2022): A mysterious force knocks the Moon from its orbit and sends it hurtling on a collision course with Earth. Makes 2012 look like a scientific documentary. | |
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The Hurricane (1937): Mostly a drama of interracial romance and unjust imprisonment on a Polynesian island, but climaxes with the eponymous storm. Directed by John Ford and unsuccessfully remade in 1979. | |
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The Last Voyage (1960): An ocean liner sinks in the Pacific following an explosion in its boiler room. Notable for being filmed aboard an actual decommissioned liner (the Ile de France) which was due for scrapping. | |
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Deep Impact (1998), the comparative Dante's Peak of this particular duel. | |
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Quantum Apocalypse (2010): A strangelet, which the movie portrays as a gravity vortex pulling in only one direction, moves towards Earth. Russia tries to solve the problem by nuking the Poles, which only causes more destruction. | |
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The Impossible (2012): Based on a real-life disaster (the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami) but instead of spectacle, the film is driven by the film's performances and the story of a family fighting to see each other again (which was based on a true story, by the way). | |
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Mars Attacks! (1996): A parody of '50s Alien Invasion films, which overlapped into the disaster genre. Directed by Tim Burton, and starred Jack Nicholson, Annette Bening, Pierce Brosnan, and Sarah Jessica Parker, with early roles by Jack Black and Natalie Portman. Had the misfortune of arriving a few months after Independence Day, and barely made back its budget. | |
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Outbreak (1995): An extremely virulent Ebola-like virus is brought to the U.S. by an infected capuchin monkey sold as a pet and threatens to decimate a small town in California. | |
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Hard Rain (1998): Concerning an armored-car robbery that takes place during a cataclysmic Midwestern flood. | |
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Cyclone (1978): A cyclone devastates the coast of Mexico, bringing down a plane, leaving a glass bottom tour boat adrift, and forcing a group of fishermen to Abandon Ship. The survivors of all three groups are left trapped at sea with little food and water to go around, especially once they come into contact with each other and have to share. | |
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A Night to Remember (1958): An accurate portrayal of the doomed RMS Titanic; perhaps the Trope Codifier and served as the inspiration for James Cameron's Titanic (1997). | |
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Kyūkyū Sentai GoGoV was sort of this, since the heroes were all civil servants who rescued people from disasters, complete with lots of exploding buildings, erupting volcanoes, etc. (the explosions help to strengthen the comparisons to the Gerry Anderson shows they were homaging). Only thing was, most of these disasters weren't just happenstance — the Saima Clan intentionally causes a lot of the disasters in their attempts to bring back their mother Grandiene or just because. This carried over into Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue to an extent, albeit toned-down in comparison. | |
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The Cassandra Crossing (1976): A terrorist infected with plague is on a train, so authorities send it in the direction of a bridge too weak to support it. Can the passengers who don't succumb to the illness save themselves? | |
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The Day of the Roses: An Australian two-part miniseries about the real-life Granville Rail Disaster and the subsequent investigation, with viewpoints shared between recollections of the disaster and its aftermath and the investigators dealing with the political implications of their findings. | |
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The Day After Tomorrow (2004): Global Warming destroys the world. Starred Dennis Quaid and Jake Gyllenhaal. | |
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Super Comet: After the Impact: A Speculative Documentary produced by ZDF and the Discovery Channel about what would happen if a comet hit Earth in the same place the asteroid that wiped out the non-avian dinosaurs did. | |
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Atomic Train (1999): A train carrying explosive chemicals and a nuclear bomb becomes a runaway, and it's up to an NTSB agent and a train operator to prevent the train from crashing and the bomb exploding in Denver. | |
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End Day (2005): An hour-long docudrama offering four (or five, depending on the cut) ways that natural disasters could cause the end of the world (or even just massive loss of life and property): megatsunami, meteor strike, pandemic, supervolcano eruption, and formation of a killer strangelet in the Large Hadron Collider. | |
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Gorath (1962): A rogue planet of gargantuan size is hurtling towards the solar system, threatening to destroy Earth with its sheer gravitational pull. From the people behind the Godzilla movies, featuring many of the same production crew members. | |
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The Chain Reaction (1980): A young couple in rural Australia must inform the public of a radiation leak following an earthquake before the corrupt corporate executives responsible can intercept and silence them. | |
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San Andreas (2015): The Big One finally hits California. | |
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Armageddon (1998): An asteroid the size of Texas is headed for Earth, and our only hope is Bruce Willis and his team of deep core oil drillers. Makes Volcano look like a scientific documentary. Directed by Michael Bay. Dueled with... | |
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Poseidon (2006): A remake of The Poseidon Adventure, directed by Wolfgang Petersen and starring Kurt Russell, Josh Lucas and Richard Dreyfuss. | |
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The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977): Three years before they did Airplane!, the ZAZ team included a shorter-form parody of the disaster genre in this movie with the segment "That's Armageddon!" (Featuring Donald Sutherland as the clumsy waiter!) | |
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It's a Disaster! (2012): In this Black Comedy, four brunching couples wait for the end after learning that the U.S. has been attacked by poison bombs. | |
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Meteor (1979): A bunch of nukes built by Sean Connery and Brian Keith versus a giant asteroid. Not as cool as it sounds, sadly. | |
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9/11 (2002): Real Life documentary that it's actually not that far off - a film crew embedded with the fire department responding to a minor call just happens to capture an incredibly destructive terrorist act and follows the firefighters into harms way, recording the whole time. In the end, despite thousands dying, the entire main cast survives. If you wrote a movie with that plot you'd have fanboys telling you it's unrealistic. | |
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Snakes on a Plane (2006): An Affectionate Parody of Airport and its ilk. Was subject to Memetic Mutation even before its release, thanks to the fact that it starred Samuel L. Jackson. | |
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The major networks often did this in the 1970s and '80s, but with better budgets and stars. Mystery Science Theater 3000 did a few of these in their time as a local access show, including SST: Death Flight and Superdome. | |
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Tunnel (2016): On a routine trip home from work, Lee Jung-soo is trapped by a collapsing tunnel. With only two bottles of water, a birthday cake, and his phone on 78% battery, he must survive long enough to be rescued by emergency services. | |
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Thunderbirds (and various adaptations) is partially this, since it's about a family who operate the giant Thunderbird craft to rescue people from awful situations (sometimes caused by error, other times it's really The Hood in his attempts to steal International Rescue's technology). Lots of Stuff Blowing Up is a frequent sight. | |
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The Andromeda Strain (1971): After a deadly extraterrestrial micro-organism is brought to Earth on a crashed military satellite in the Southwestern U.S., a team of scientists assembles in an underground facility to investigate the organism and contain its spread. | |
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Now has a sequel, The Quake (2018), which centers around a major earthquake striking Oslo, the capital of Norway. | |
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Apollo 13 (1995): The true story of the manned space mission that never made it to the Moon. | |
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Don't Look Up (2021): A Genre Deconstruction dark parody of how a planet-killing meteor scenario would likely play out in real life with a modern-day political and social landscape, with their answer being that government corruption, greed, and a dash of willful ignorance would ultimately screw everyone over. | |
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Independence Day (1996): Aliens blow up the White House, among other world landmarks, and humanity has to figure out how to stop them from doing even more damage. This film turned Will Smith into a superstar and remains one of the few A-level disaster films to have a sequel (Independence Day: Resurgence, released and set 20 years later after both sides of the conflict have rebuilt). | |
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D.C. 9/11: Time of Crisis: Dramatization of how the U.S. government responded to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. | |
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Five Came Back (1939): About a plane with eleven people aboard that crashes into the Amazon jungle, is another early example. | |
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Virus (1980): also based on a novel by Sakyo Komatsu, a man-made virus wipes out the human race, save for a group of Antarctic researchers who must take on the task of preserving some sense of civilization. At the time it was the highest budgeted Japanese film, with an All-Star Cast including Masao Kusakari, Sonny Chiba, and Olivia Hussey. | |
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Morning Departure (1950): A submarine on routine patrol is sunk by an old Sea Mine. The survivors are trapped on the sea floor, awaiting an uncertain rescue. | |
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City on Fire (1979): An unnamed Midwestern city suffers a massive fire when an oil refinery worker loses it and sabotages the place. | |
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The War of the Worlds (1953) (1953): The first film adaptation based on the famous novel by H. G. Wells, Martians conduct a worldwide invasion against the Earth using heat rays and manta ray-shaped fighting machines. | |
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Dante's Peak (1997): A volcano erupts in the Pacific Northwest. Surprisingly for a disaster flick, it's notable for its relative scientific accuracy. Starred Pierce Brosnan and Linda Hamilton. Dueled with... | |
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Noah (2014) - all the usual disaster movie tropes, set in Biblical Times. | |
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Zettai Zetsumei Toshi, known in English as Disaster Report, is a series of disaster video games: ostensibly, they are Survival Horror games, except with earthquakes taking the place of monsters and zombies. | |
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Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 (2009): A disaster Anime. Pretty much Exactly What It Says on the Tin: a story about an 8.0 earthquake in Tokyo, though with a surprising focus on human drama and emergency procedures rather than spectacle. Harsher in Hindsight after 2011. | |
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Songbird (2020): By the year 2024, COVID-19 has mutated into an even deadlier form known as COVID-23, claiming more than 110 million lives worldwide and forcing those infected to be placed in quarantine zones where they are left to die. | |
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Crawl (2019): A young woman and her father battle a hurricane and alligators. | |
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Firestorm (1998): When a convoluted prison escape scheme causes a massive forest fire, it's up to a smokejumper and a plucky ornithologist to save the day. | |
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The Core (2003): Earth's core stops rotating thanks to a top-secret military project Gone Horribly Wrong, eliminating Earth's magnetic field and causing it to get hit by solar storms. Aaron Eckhart and Hilary Swank go down into Earth's interior to restart the core with nuclear bombs. Makes Armageddon look like Volcano. Or something. | |
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Threads (1984): The Transatlantic Equivalent of The Day After, with the added horror (thanks to advances in understanding the effects of nuclear war between 1983 and 1984) of showing the long-term effects of worldwide nuclear war (short version: those who die in the blasts are the lucky ones). | |
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The Hurricane Heist (2018): A group of rogue treasury agents plan a heist in the midst of a hurricane. | |
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Chernobyl is a mini-series that focuses on the eponymous nuclear plant accident and its aftermath and crosses the line with Historical Fiction due to both being based off real events and eschewing the disaster genre's clichés (it could well be classified as Horror as well). | |
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Supervolcano (2005): A docudrama aired on the Discovery Channel about the Yellowstone Supervolcano unexpectedly erupting. | |
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The China Syndrome (1979): An odd variant, since it's about the narrow aversion of a disaster (a meltdown at a nuclear plant) and the attempts to cover up what nearly led to it. | |
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Now has a standalone sequel, Twisters (2024). | |
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Shin Godzilla also has disaster movie aspects akin to its 1954 predecessor, taking cues from (and a few potshots at) the Japanese government's response to the Fukushima nuclear disaster. | |
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Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956): Aliens lay waste to Washington D.C. during a worldwide alien invasion. Features special effects by Ray Harryhausen. | |
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The Hindenburg (1975): Why did this Real Life disaster happen? The fictional story chronicles the possibility that it was sabotage. A rare case of a Disaster Movie that holds off on the actual disaster until the finale. Notable for the sets being extremely loyal to the real Hindenburg, to the extent that the spectacular, dreamlike airship steals the show. George C. Scott heads the cast. | |
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Geostorm (2017): Centers, as the name implies, on a series of global meteorological disasters caused by weather-controlling satellites. It's the sort of premise one might expect from a director who's worked extensively with Roland Emmerich in the past. | |
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When Time Ran Out... (1980): A volcano in the South Pacific threatens a resort, an oil rig, and a volcano observatory. The final nail in the coffin for the first cycle of disaster films, and Irwin Allen's final theatrically-released film. Even the cast (which included Paul Newman, Jacqueline Bisset, and William Holden) hated it. | |
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Airport (1970): The Trope Codifier. Started the first boom of disaster films in the '70s. Stars Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, George Kennedy and Jacqueline Bisset. Had three sequels, each one progressively worse (but still successful... at least, until the fourth one finally killed the series). | |
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Daylight (1996): The Holland Tunnel floods following an explosion, and Sylvester Stallone goes in to save the people trapped. | |
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Twister (1996): Tornadoes in Oklahoma. Helped to revive interest in disaster films, with help from... Now has a standalone sequel, Twisters (2024). |
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Westworld (1973): Humanoid robots go murderously haywire at a futuristic amusement resort visited by Richard Benjamin and James Brolin. | |
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The Wave (2015): An unstable mountainside collapses into the Geiranger fjord, sending a 300 ft wave towards Geiranger, Norway. Based on plausible future events. Now has a sequel, The Quake (2018), which centers around a major earthquake striking Oslo, the capital of Norway. |
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Greenland (2020): A structural engineer (Gerard Butler) and his family seek shelter against an oncoming planet killer of a meteor. | |
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San Francisco (1936): Another early example, decipting the historical 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. Stars Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, and Spencer Tracy. | |
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Summer Blockbuster: With the budgets that most disaster movies have, it's only natural that they're released in the summer. | |
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Exit (2019) (2019): A terrorist releases a slowly rising toxic gas throughout downtown Seoul, which forces the citizens to head to the roofs. A rare comedic example. | |
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Ashfall (2019): About a volcano whose eruptions have devastating consequences for the Korean peninsula. | |
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The Poseidon Adventure (1972): An ocean liner is capsized by a giant wave and left floating upside down. The first of Irwin Allen's disaster movies stars Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Shelley Winters, and Leslie Nielsen in a non-comedic role. Had a sequel in 1979 (Beyond the Poseidon Adventure, which doesn't fall under this trope), a 2005 Made-for-TV Movie remake, and a big-screen remake in 2006 as Poseidon. | |
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The Towering Inferno (1974): The world's tallest skyscraper is built in San Francisco, but on the day of its dedication, it catches fire and traps partygoers on the top floors. The second of Irwin Allen's disaster movies, and often considered to be one of the best. Stars Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, William Holden, and Fred Astaire among others. | |
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Prophecies of Nostradamus (1974): Japanese movie. Earth goes through a disaster gauntlet, ranging from mutant slugs to city-engulfing fire-storms, to the sky filling with green shit. | |
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Zero Hour! (1957) (1957): Most famous today for serving as the primary model for Airplane!. | |
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The Perfect Storm (2000): Dramatization of the hurricane that hit the Atlantic coast of North America in October 1991, and the sinking of the commercial fishing boat Andrea Gail. | |
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Challenger (1990): A dramatization of the events leading up to the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, with particular emphasis on the personal lives of the astronauts and the safety issues regarding the shuttle's booster rockets that failed so catastrophically during its launch on January 28, 1986. | |
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The Killer That Stalked New York (1950): Very Loosely Based on the 1947 New York City smallpox outbreak. The film focuses heavily on the public health response with the authorities trying to contain the outbreak, though there is also a subplot about Patient Zero Sheila Bennet's personal life which is more like a typical Film Noir. | |
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Cloverfield and Gojira are disaster movies in a sense. Unlike most Kaiju movies, they focus more on the horrors of encountering a gigantic rampaging monster, thus giving them many disaster movie aspects. Helps that Godzilla was supposed to be a walking representation of the atomic bombs while "Clover"'s attack had many aspects of 9/11 in it. Shin Godzilla also has disaster movie aspects akin to its 1954 predecessor, taking cues from (and a few potshots at) the Japanese government's response to the Fukushima nuclear disaster. |
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Goliath Awaits (1981): A cruise ship sunk in World War II has managed to conserve enough air to keep the survivors alive for decades afterwards, with there being mixed reactions when a rescue party (originally meant as a salvage party) finally arrives, and some of the survivors can't conceive of leaving. | |
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