From natural disasters to epidemics to monsters wreaking havoc, disaster movies have always fascinated audiences. We experience some of our biggest anxieties vicariously through the characters on ...

Released during the height of the ‘70s disaster film craze, Earthquake follows all kinds of survivors (with their own personal issues) as they attempt to survive and make sense of a natural ...

The 1970s was not just a prime decade for science fiction movies but an era in which those ... and radical politics. But the ‘70s introduced a whole new set of crises into the genre, in tandem ...

Disaster movies have been around for nearly as long as movies have (the arguable first was a 1901 four-minute-long short called Fire!—it’s about a fire), but the ‘70s was the first true ...

Steve McQueen and Paul Newman were on fire back in the '70s, especially with ... much a patriotic sci-fi action film. But hoo boy, it nails being a disaster-piece early, with the aliens arriving ...

However, there are also many disaster movies that, while not achieving the ... but it’s a time capsule of both the disaster genre and the ’70s. The story follows Herman Stover (Jonathan ...

“Disaster! A 70’s Disaster Movie… Musical!,” written by Seth Rudetsky and Jack Plotnick — concept created by Seth Rudetsky and Drew Geraci with additional materials by Drew ...

From earthquakes to hurricanes, disaster cinema offers some of the purest spectacle to be found in a movie theater. This weekend, a force is blowing into cinemas that we haven’t seen in a long ...

A spoof of ’70s disaster movies, this disaster comedy imagines what would happen if both pilots were debilitated by food poisoning—and the only person who could save the plane from crashing ...