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Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Alien, and a small independent film called Star Wars hit theaters between 1977 and 1979, ...

Disaster movies have long been a staple of Hollywood. The first disaster film dates back to 1912 with a movie recounting the tragedy of Titanic. The genre really became popular in the 1970s with ...

Fifty story-high tidal waves engulfing entire cities, miles-wide meteors on a collision course with Earth, homicidal alien invaders with pulverizing technology -- nothing beats a good old disaster ...

Six friends enter a cave system looking for a spelunking adventure, but the creatures that await them are hungry for blood.

Director Renny Harlin had nothing to do with the Deep Blue Sequels that followed his original movie, but he does have some ...

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 ...

With the release of A House of Dynamite on Netflix, attention is once again focused on the disaster movie genre. Here is a selection of films for the nights and weekends ahead - some fact-based, ...

The 1974 action classic, The Towering Inferno, starring Steve McQueen, deserves a legitimate, modern-day remake.

Netflix's action movies are about to get a late-month shakeup with the arrival of San Andreas. This 2015 action/disaster thriller stars Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson as a man desperate to reunite his ...

Aya Tsintziras is a freelance writer who writes about TV, movies, and has a particular interest in the horror genre. She has a Political Science degree from the University of Toronto and a Masters of ...

Disaster movies have been a rock-solid staple on the silver screen since the early 1900s — with James Williamson's silent film Fire! (1901) being the first to introduce the genre. From Hollywood's ...