The Swarm (1978)
The Swarm is Irwin Allen's 1978 American disaster film. Allen's disaster filmography had included The Poseidon Adventure (1972) and The Towering Inferno (1974) that operated at substantially higher register.
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DisasterGeostorm (2017)
2017 Dean Devlin disaster film with Gerard Butler battling weather-controlling satellites that go rogue. Geostorm is Dean Devlin's 2017 American disaster film.
DisasterDeepwater Horizon (2016)
2016 Peter Berg disaster film with Mark Wahlberg recreating the 2010 BP oil rig explosion. Eleven dead, worst spill in U.S. history.
DisasterWar of the Worlds (1953 & 2005)
The War of the Worlds material has been adapted as theatrical film twice across more than fifty years: The War of the Worlds (1953) starring Gene Barry and Ann Robinson, and War of the Worlds (2005) starring Tom Cruise and…
ActionIndependence Day (1996)
Dean Devlin co-wrote with Emmerich. The film established Will Smith as the dominant summer blockbuster star of the late 1990s, set up Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin's career-long partnership producing disaster spectacles, and refined the destruction-of-iconic-landmarks visual template that subsequent…
DisasterWhen Worlds Collide (1951)
When Worlds Collide is the early-Cold War apocalypse film that established the planetary-impact template for the next seventy-five years. The screenplay by Sydney Boehm adapts the 1933 novel by Edwin Balmer and Philip Wylie.
DisasterThe Towering Inferno (1974)
The Towering Inferno is the best disaster film of the 1970s and the model against which every subsequent disaster film has been measured. John Guillermin directed the dramatic scenes and Irwin Allen directed the action sequences.
DisasterEarthquake (1974)
The Towering Inferno is the best. Both films defined what the disaster genre would be for the next.
DisasterSan Andreas (2015)
San Andreas is a Dwayne Johnson disaster movie. Johnson plays Ray Gaines, a Los Angeles Fire Department rescue pilot whose helicopter and skill set turn out to be exactly what is needed when a magnitude nine earthquake destroys California.
DisasterThe Impossible (2012)
The Impossible is the best disaster film of the twenty-first century. Naomi Watts plays Maria Bennett, a doctor on Christmas.
ActionBattleship (2012)
The 7.5 rating is honest evaluation. Taylor Kitsch as Lieutenant Alex Hopper.
ComedyAirplane! (1980) Review
is one of the great American comedies of all time and one of the most substantial parody films in commercial cinema history. The Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker collaborative team had been working substantially in comedy production before Airplane!.