Disaster Flicks
Ever have one of those days? Well chances are it never got as bad as it did for these people. Dodging meteors, tornados, floods, earthquakes, molten lava, deadly viruses and killer bees. Peaking in the 70s with the Irwin Allen school of filmmaking ("The Poseidon Adventure", "The Towering Inferno", "The Swarm", "When Time Ran Out...", "Beyond the Poseidon Adventure"), the disaster movie still rears its head from time to time and made something of a strong comeback in the mid-90s ("Dante's Peak", "Volcano", "Daylight", "Twister", "Armageddon", "Deep Impact" and so on). Head for the hills...
Dante's Peak (1997)
5.9/10
Director: Roger Donaldson
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Linda Hamilton, Charles Hallahan
A tranquil town in the Pacific Northwest becomes a Hell on Earth when the long-dormant volcano that gave the community its name becomes active again a... Read more
Dante's Peak ( Blu-ray ) (1997)
5.9/10
Director: Roger Donaldson
Starring: Charles Hallahan, Linda Hamilton, Pierce Brosnan
A tranquil town in the Pacific Northwest becomes a Hell on Earth when the long-dormant volcano that gave the community its name becomes active again a... Read more
Day of the Dead (Blu-Ray) (1985)
7.2/10
Director: George A Romero
Starring: Joe Pilato, Lori Cardille, Richard Liberty, Terry Alexander, George A Romero
Trapped in a missile silo, a small team of scientists, civilians and trigger-happy soldiers battle desperately to ensure the survival of the human rac... Read more
Daylight (1996)
5.8/10
Director: Rob Cohen
Starring: Amy Brenneman, Viggo Mortensen, Sylvester Stallone, Dan Hedaya, Jay O Sanders, K...
Sly Stallone is a disgraced emergency medical service worker who springs into action when a huge explosion cripples a tunnel under New York City's Hud... Read more
Earthquake (1974)
5.8/10
Director: Mark Robson
Starring: Ava Gardner, Charlton Heston, Barry Sullivan, Victoria Principal, Genevieve Bujo...
When the most catastrophic earthquake of all time rips through Southern California, it levels Los Angeles and sends shockwaves through the lives of al... Read more
Flight 93 (2006)
6.3/10
Director: Peter Markle
Starring: Brennan Elliott, Kendall Cross, Ty Olsson, Monnae Michaell, April Telek
Pre-empting Paul Greengrass' feature by several months this made-for-TV movie is a dramatic re-telling of the events that occurred on the doomed Fligh... Read more
Flying High! ( aka Airplane! ) (1980)
6.5/10
Director: David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams
Starring: Julie Hagerty, Robert Hays, Robert Stack, Leslie Nielsen, Lloyd Bridges
A funny spoof of 'Airport'-type disaster movies with non-stop hilarity that holds up to the end. Starring Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges, R... Read more
Haeundae ( Tidal Wave ) (2009)
6.4/10
Director: Je-gyun Yun
Starring: Jeong-hwa Eom, Ji-won Ha, Kyung-gu Sol, Joong-Hoon Park
During the summer, the beach resort of Haeundae is packed with up to one million vacationing Koreans. On one such day, marine geologist Kim Hwi (Joong... Read more
Hard Rain (1997)
5.8/10
Director: Mikael Salomon
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Christian Slater, Randy Quaid
This routine, effects-soaked thriller about a bank heist complicated by massive flooding (the aborted pre-release title was 'The Flood') stars Christi... Read more
Hindenburg (2007)
7/10
The Hindenburg tragedy was a catastrophe that was as significant as the Titanic disaster. Until that fateful day, airships were seen as the upcoming w... Read more