![]() ![]() The story involves German professor Otto Lidenbrock who believes there are volcanic tubes going toward the center of the Earth. ![]() Here are 33 classics of the genre that register 11 on the cinematic Richter Scale. Journey to the Interior of the Earth) is an 1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne. In putting together this list, we stuck to the natural definition of ‘disasters’ – earthquakes and asteroids and, uh, geostorms, rather than rampaging kaiju and invading aliens. Roland Emmerich picked up the flaming baton a couple of decades later, finding new and inventive ways to reduce the planet to toast.Īnd as Netflix’s meme-spawning eco-tastrophe flick Don't Look Up proves, our appetite for destruction has hardly waned. Their heyday came in the ’70s where audiences inured of Vietnam, Watergate and economic woes were hungry for a more escapist breed of catastrophe and super-producers like Irwin ‘the Master of Disaster’ Allen were on hand to provide it. And unlike horror, where the peril can be contained or is even existential, the threat in this oeuvre is often limitless – there’s nothing like the future of the entire planet hanging in the balance to have you shifting uncomfortably in your easychair. ![]() ![]() Alongside the horror genre, disaster movies are cinema’s way of reflecting our deepest fears back at us. ![]()
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