Over the weekend I finally got to see the movie, 2012. Got the dvd from my library as I’m too stingy to shell out mega bucks to visit the cinema. But that got me to thinking how many other disaster movies are there.

I’ve seen many, and it’s definitely my favourite genre, and anytime there’s been one on tv I’ve watched, although I’m not too sure that Zombie movies come into the category but I saw I AM LEGEND not too long ago and it freaked the shit out of me.

But I watched 2012 on Sunday and LOVED IT!!!!!

I LOVE DISASTER MOVIES.

DAY AFTER TOMORROW, ARMAGEDDON, ASTEROID, DEEP IMPACT etc, etc, etc.

Anytime something gets blown up – INDEPENDENCE DAY, demolished, washed away, tipped over – POSEIDON, TITANIC, I’m there.

The special effects astound me and that’s the only reason I watch these movies. For the special effects.

I loved the effects in 2012 so much I’m watching it again before taking it back.

I HAVE GOT TO SEE IT AGAIN!!

So that got me to thinking is there a list of disaster flicks?

So I googled, and found a Wikipedia page, there’s heaps more but that would make this post too long. So tell me how many you’ve seen from the list below. I’ve seen heaps.

 

Geological disasters –

 

Cave-In! (1983 TV)
On Hostile Ground (2000)

Cave In (2003 TV)
The Core (2003)

Landslide (2004 TV) AKA Buried Alive

Avalanches –

Avalanche (1969)
Avalanche (1978)
Avalanche Express (1979)

High Ice (1980 TV)

Lavina (1982)

Avalanche (1994)

Avalanche (1999) (AKA Escape From Alaska)
Vertical Limit (2000)

Avalanche (2001)
Avalanche Alley (2001)

Trapped: Buried Alive (2002)

Nature Unleashed: Avalanche (2004)

Earthquakes –

Deluge (1933)
San Francisco (1936)
The Rains of Ranchipur (1955)
The Night the World Exploded (1957)
Crack in the World (1965)

Short Walk to Daylight (1972)

The Day the Earth Moved (1974)
Earthquake (1974)

Deathquake (1980)
The Big One: The Great Los Angeles Earthquake (1990)
Aftershocks (1998)
Aftershock: Earthquake in New York (1999)
Epicenter (2000)
Deep Core (2000)
Epoch (2001)

Epoch: Evolution (2003)

Nature Unleashed: Earthquake (2004)
10.5 (2004)
Descent (2005)
10.5: Apocalypse (2006)
2012 (2009)
Megafault (2009)

Meteors –

Armageddon (1998)
Anna’s Storm (2007)
Asteroid (1997)
Deep Impact (1998)
The Fifth Element (1997)

A Fire in the Sky (1978 TV)
Impact (2008)
Meteor (1979)
Meteor (2009 TV) AKA Meteor: Path to Destruction

Meteorites! (1998)
Post Impact (2004)

Volcanoes –

 

2012 (2009)
Dante’s Peak (1997)
The Devil at 4 O’Clock (1961)
Disaster Zone: Volcano in New York (2006)
Dragon Head (2003)
End Day (2005)
The Island at the Top of the World (1974)
Krakatoa, East of Java (1969)
Krakatoa: The Last Days (docudrama) (2006)
The Last Days of Pompeii (1935)
Magma: Volcanic Disaster (2006)

Nature Unleashed: Volcano (2004)
Pompeii: The Last Day (docudrama) (2003)
St. Helens (1981)
Supervolcano (docudrama) (2005)

Terror Peak (2003 TV)
Volcano (1997)
The Volcano Disaster (2004)

Volcano: Fire on the Mountain (1997)
When Time Ran Out… (1980)

 

Floods and tidal waves –

2012 (2009)

2022: Tsunami (2009 Thailand)

252: Signal of Life (2008 Japan)

Condominium (1980 TV)
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
Daylight (1996)
Deep Impact (1998)
Deluge (1933)
Flood (2007)

Flood! (1976)

Flood: A River’s Rampage (1997)
Haeundae (2009 Korea)

Killer Flood: The Day the Dam Broke (2003)
Killer Wave (2007 TV)
The Last Wave (1977)
Nippon Chinbotsu (1973 Japan) AKA Tidal Wave
Nihon Chinbotsu (2006 Japan) AKA Japan Sinks
Nihon Igai Zenbu Chinbotsu (2006 Japan) AKA The Entire World Sinks Except Japan
Noah’s Ark (1928)
Noah’s Ark (1999)
The Rains Came (1939)
The Rains of Ranchipur (1955)
Storm Tracker (film) (2000)

Tidal Wave: No Escape (1997 TV)

Vajont (2001)

Climatic disasters –

Absolute Zero (2005) (TV)
Category 6: Day of Destruction (2004)
Category 7: The End of the World (2005)

Countdown: The Sky’s on Fire! (1998)
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
End Day (2005)
Hard Rain (1998)

Heat Wave! (1974)
The Hurricane (1937)
Hurricane (1979)

Ice (1998)

Lightning: Bolts of Destruction (2003 TV)

Lightning: Fire from the Sky (2001 TV)
Storm Tracker (film) (2000)
The Perfect Storm (2000)

Global warming –

A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Category 6: Day of Destruction (2004)
Category 7: The End of the World (2005)
Countdown: The Sky’s on Fire! (1998)
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)

The Fire Next Time (1993 TV)
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961)
Waterworld (1995)

 

Tornadoes –

Atomic Twister (2002)
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)

Devil Winds (2003)

Nature Unleashed: Tornado (2004)
Night of the Twisters (1996)

NYC: Tornado Terror (2008 TV)

Storm Chasers: Revenge of the Twister (1998)

Tornado Warning (2002)
Tornado! (1996)

Tornado – Der Zorn des Himmels (2006)
Twister (1996)
Category 6: Day of Destruction (2004)
Category 7: The End of the World (2005)

Fires –

15 Minutes of Fire (1997 Australia)

Ablaze (2001)
Backdraft (1991)
City on Fire (1979)
Dante’s Inferno (1935)

Fire! (1901)
Fire! (1977 TV)

Fire: Trapped on the 37th Floor (1991 TV)
Firestorm (1998)

Firestorm: 72 Hours in Oakland (1993 TV)

Firestorm: Last Stand at Yellowstone (2006 TV)
In Old Chicago (1937)

Inferno (1998 TV)
Knowing (2009)
Ladder 49 (2004)
The Last Days of Pompeii (1935)

Nature Unleashed: Fire (2004)

Raging Inferno (2007 German TV) AKA Das Inferno – Flammen über Berlin

Red Skies of Montana (1952)
San Francisco (1936)
Scorched (2008)

Superfire (2002 TV)

Terror on the 40th Floor (1974)
The Towering Inferno (1974)

Trapped (2001 TV)
Volcano (1997)

Epidemics –

Absolon (2001)
The Andromeda Strain (1971)
Signs (2002)
The Andromeda Strain (2008)
Blindness (2008)
Cabin Fever (2003)
Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever (2009)

Carriers (1998)
Carriers (2009)
The Cassandra Crossing (1976)
Children of Men (2006)

Contagion (2001)

Contagious (1997)
Covert One: The Hades Factor (2006)
Doomsday (2008)
Daybreakers (2010)
Ebola Syndrome (1996)
Epidemic (1987)
Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America (2006)
Flying Virus (2001)
The Happening (2008)
I Am Legend (2007)
I Am Omega (2007)
The Invasion (2007)
It’s Great to Be Alive (1933)
The Killer That Stalked New York (1950)
The Last Man on Earth (1924)
The Last Man on Earth (1964)
Outbreak (1995)
The Omega Man (1971)
Pandora’s Clock (1996)
Panic in the Streets (1950)

Plague (1978)
Quarantine (2008)

Runaway Virus (2000)
The Satan Bug (1965)
Smallpox 2002 (2002)

Spill (1996)
SST: Death Flight (1977)

Thirst (1998)
Virus (1980)

Virus (1981)
Virus (1999)

Voyage of Terror (1998)
Warning Sign (1985)
Darwin’s Nightmare (2004)
Resident Evil (2002)
Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)
Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)
Resident Evil: Degeneration (2008)
Undead (2003)
Zombieland (2009)

Space disasters –

Anna’s Storm (2007)
Armageddon (1998)
Asteroid (1997)
Apollo 13 (1995)
Countdown: The Sky’s on Fire! (1998)
The Day the Sky Exploded (1958)
Deep Impact (1998)

Doomsday Rock (1997)

Earthstorm (2006)
End Day (2005)

End of the World (1977)

A Fire in the Sky (1978 TV)
Impact (2008)

Inferno (1998)
Judgment Day (1999)
Knowing (2009)
Lifeforce (1985)
Meteor (1979)

Meteorites! (1998)
Night of the Comet (1984)
Signs (2002)
Solar Attack (2005) AKA Solar Strike
Solar Crisis (1990)
Sunshine (2007)
Supernova (2005)
Tycus (1998)
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961)
War of the Worlds (2005)
When Worlds Collide (1951)
Where Have All The People Gone? (1974)
Without Warning (1994)

Man-made disasters –

Blackout (1978)
The Core (2003)
City on Fire (1979)
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)
From Beyond (1985)
I Am Legend (2007)
Locusts: The 8th Plague (2005)
On Deadly Ground (1994)
The Philadelphia Experiment (1984)
The Quiet Earth (1985)
Shadowzone (1990)
Stairwell: Trapped in the World Trade Center (2002)
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (2009)
World Trade Center (film) (2006)

 

Airplanes –

9/11 (2002)
Air Crew (1980 Russia) AKA Ekipazh
Air Force One (1997)
Airport (1970)
Airport 1975 (1974)
Airport ’77 (1977)
Airspeed (1998)
Alive (1993)
Crash: The Mystery of Flight 1501 (1990 TV) AKA Aftermath

Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232 (1992 TV) AKA A Thousand Heroes
Crash Landing (1999)

Crash Landing (2005)
The Concorde: Airport ’79 (1979)
The Day Britain Stopped (2003)
Die Hard 2 (1990)
Falling from the Sky: Flight 174 (1995 TV) AKA Freefall: Flight 174
Fearless (1993)

Final Descent (1997 TV)
Final Destination (2000)
Fire and Rain (1989)
Five Came Back (1939)
Flight 93 (2006)
Flight of The Living Dead (2007)
The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)

Flight to Holocaust (1977)
Ground Control (1998)
The High and the Mighty (1954)
The Hindenburg (1975)
Knowing (2009)

Mayday! (2005 TV)
Millennium (1989)
Miracle Landing (1990)
No Highway in the Sky (1951)

Nowhere to Land (2000 TV)
Pandora’s Clock (1996)

Panic in the Skies! (1996 TV)
Passenger 57 (1992)
Skyjacked (1972)
Snakes on a Plane (2006)
Starflight One (1983 TV)
Stealth (2005)
Storm Tracker (film) (2000)
Terror in the Sky (1971 TV)
Turbulence (1997)
United 93 (2006)

A Wing and a Prayer (1998 TV)
World Trade Center (2006)
Zero Hour! (1957)

Ships and submarines –

Atlantic (1929)
Britannic (2000)
Crimson Tide (1995)
Evan Almighty (2007)
Gray Lady Down (1978)
Hostile Waters (1997)
In Nacht und Eis (1912)
In Search of the Castaways (1962)
Juggernaut (1970)
K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)
The Last Voyage (1960)
Lord of the Flies (1963)
A Night to Remember (1958)
Noah (1998)
Noah’s Ark (1929)

Noah’s Ark (1959)
Noah’s Ark (1999)
Poseidon (2006)
The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979)
The Poseidon Adventure (2005)
Raise the Titanic! (1980)
S.O.S. Titanic (1979 TV)
Saved from the Titanic (1912)
Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997)
Titanic (1943)
Titanic (1953)
Titanic (1996 TV)
Titanic (1997)
U-571 (2000)
Ghost Ship (2002 film)
Ghosts of the Abyss (2003)
The Little Polar Bear (2001)