Disaster movies are plentiful, popular, and spanning genres - whether it’s action or outright horror, there’s a movie for everyone. Urban disaster films are particularly popular as they capture everyday events. Spectators experience a painful thrill as they watch their fellow beings blown up, frozen, drowned, or consumed by monsters. It’s even better if it’s a city that everyone recognizes (that’s why New York gets to grips with it so often).
Disaster movies are not only enjoyable, but also show how generations have dealt with natural disasters and global threats such as San Francisco detailing the terrible California earthquake of 1906. They also capture social fears − day after And streams reflect the Cold War horror of nuclear conflict, and most recently Day after tomorrowfear of climate change.
10 ‘2012’ (2009)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 39%
Roland Emmerich dazzling, wildly excessive 2012based on the premise that the ancient Mayan calendar was correct - the world is doomed to end in 2012. A range of characters, including a geologist, a Russian oligarch, a family, and the First Daughter, must race against time as the planet crumbles around them.
2012 includes a volcanic eruption in Yellowstone National Park, multiple tsunamis and a spectacular scene where Los Angeles literally slides into the ocean. Critics praised the film’s superb special effects, but lamented its weak script and story.
9 “Deep Impact” (1998)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 43%
A massive comet discovered by high school student Leo (Elijah Wood) should collide with the Earth and create a near extinction event. Journalist (Tea Leoni) reveals history as the President of the United States (Morgan Freeman) sends astronauts to try and blow up an asteroid. The asteroid breaks into two pieces, one of which lands in the ocean and creates a massive tsunami that sweeps over New York City.
Significant Impact suffered from release the same summer as Michael BayArmageddonwhich, despite poor reviews, outperformed Significant Impact carefully at the box office.
8 “The Day After Tomorrow” (2004)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 45%
Accelerated climate change will trigger a new global ice age. The northern hemisphere is engulfed in ice storms that have lured Sam into a trap (Jake Gyllenhaal) and his friends in a now flooded New York. An ensemble of characters including politicians, scientists, lovers, and doomed jerks struggle to survive on an icy planet.
-Day after tomorrow was a wonderful attempt to draw attention to the dangers of climate change (although sketchy science may have confused people even more). The film was praised by critics for its visuals and acting (but not for its story or dialogue).
7 ‘Volcano’ (1997)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 49%
What if there was a volcano near Los Angeles? This is the premise Volcanowhere an earthquake triggers a powerful volcanic eruption deep beneath the city. Mike (Tommy Lee Jones) and Amy (Ann heche) must work together to divert the deadly underground lava into the ocean.
Volcano has a vivid, gripping spectacle (though little actual science) and was one of only two volcano-themed films released in 1997 (Dante Peak be different). Critics found the film to be cheesy but hilarious, but Volcano Unfortunately, it didn’t make it to the box office.
6 ‘Shark Tornado’ (2013)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 74%
Los Angeles is hit by a hurricane from the ocean, swarming with angry sharks. Soon the city is flooded with sea water and killer sharks, and surfer Fin and his friends are fighting for survival. In the end, the Shark Noses are defeated by bombs dropped from the helicopter, but not before the toothy fiends grab onto the helicopter for one last meal.
This made-for-TV horror comedy received surprisingly positive reviews, with Rotten Tomatoes’ critical consensus stating that the film is “proudly, shamelessly, and gloriously brainless”. shark tornado became a cult classic and spawned five sequels.
5 “Cloverfield” (2008)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 78%
Cloverfield It’s a found horror movie about a group of young New Yorkers who are attacked by a giant Godzilla-like monster. The story, framed as secret videos discovered by the military, is about Rob and his friends trying to escape New York. The film ends with Rob and Beth in Central Park, just before the military bombs the entire city to kill the monster.
Critics praised Cloverfield as an original take on monster film with an effective, innovative use of the found footage genre. The film was a box office success, thanks in part to a clever viral marketing campaign. Two more films set in the same universe as Cloverfield followed - 10 Cloverfield Lane And The Cloverfield Paradox. A fourth film in the franchise is in development.
4 “The Next Day” (1983)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 83%
day after This is a made-for-TV film about a cataclysmic nuclear war and its impact on the people of Kansas City. In great detail, the film tells about a nuclear strike that led to massive destruction and death of people, millions of people were injured or quickly died from radiation poisoning. Nearly all of the film’s main characters are dead or dying towards the end - and the rest of the world is supposed to suffer the same.
Over 100 million people have watched day after on its first broadcast. President Ronald Reagan explained that the film helped change US policy away from nuclear war. The film was broadcast all over the world, including on Soviet television in 1987.
3 “These Last Hours” (2013)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 85%
A catastrophic firestorm from an asteroid will reach Perth, Western Australia in 12 hours. The population falls into panic, despair and hedonistic parties. James (Nathan Phillips), a self-absorbed young man, intends to join the party, but ends up helping a lost 10-year-old girl (Anguri Rice) find her family. James reunites with his girlfriend at the beach just before the firestorm starts.
Perth, one of the world’s most isolated major cities, is the perfect setting for filming an apocalypse movie. Critics praised the harsh, aggressive tone These last hours which makes it different from other disaster films.
2 ‘San Francisco’ (1936)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 92%
A nightclub singer finds herself in a love triangle with a dashing saloon owner and a wealthy, respectable gentleman. The latter died in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, a real-life event that killed over 3,000 people and destroyed much of the city.
Although it is mainly a musical melodrama, San Francisco helped set the template for a modern disaster film with big stars (Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, and Janette macdonald), impressive special effects and even an original song. The earthquake episode is surprisingly still breathtaking, especially considering the movie was made almost 90 years ago.
1 ‘Threads’ (1984)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 100%
This British TV movie is considered by many to be the scariest movie of all time. streamsset in the city of Sheffield in the north of England, was a British sister film. day after. The film is about two ordinary families devastated by nuclear war and the subsequent harrowing decade of radioactive fallout, death and decay. Our main character Ruth (Karen Meagher), survives the explosion, but dies of malnutrition and cancer in just over a decade. Jane, her emotionally and intellectually retarded daughter, had a stillborn, deformed child at age 13.
Told in pseudo-documentary style (like the earlier and no less controversial war game), streams impenetrably gloomy. The viewer watches as Sheffield (and its inhabitants) are blown to pieces and then consumed by fire, fallout and rats. In this instructive disaster film, there are no happy images of survival, no heroes saving the day, no humanity, no hope.
Source: Collider
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