Mother Nature's fury unleashed on the big screen! Join us as we count down the most terrifying films where natural disasters take center stage. From devastating twisters and volcanic eruptions to deadly tsunamis and asteroid impacts, these movies show nature at its most destructive. Which catastrophic cinematic experience left you with nightmares?
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00:00It's one of many tornadoes that are destroying our city.
00:04There's another one!
00:05Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the most thrilling and terrifying films
00:10that have natural disasters as a main plot point.
00:13We're not counting alien invasions or disease outbreaks because those deserve their own lists.
00:18We're gonna hit it! We can still do it! Come on, come on, come on!
00:23Number 30. These Final Hours.
00:25This Australian thriller takes an unusual approach to the disaster movie drama.
00:29Most of it takes place after an asteroid has already hit Earth,
00:32and the folks down under have about 12 hours until the firestorm wipes them all out.
00:36As you might expect, people have wildly different reactions to the news.
00:41At least we're all together, right?
00:45Oh, they want to live in a world where you can't even say goodbye to your grandkids.
00:49Some just want to be close to their families, while others decide to party it up.
00:53The entire movie is incredibly tense,
00:55focusing primarily on one man and his struggles as the clock ticks down to Armageddon.
01:00It forces you to ask yourself, what would you do if the world was about to end?
01:07Number 29. Twisters.
01:10This sequel to the 1996 classic ramps the danger up to 11.
01:14Tornadoes are one of nature's most unforgiving forces.
01:17Twisters gets up close and personal with them,
01:20giving viewers an intense look at what it's like to get caught up in one.
01:25Keep your head down, just stay low, eyes on me.
01:27I can do it!
01:28Stay low, stay low, stay low, stay low!
01:29I can do it!
01:30Stay low, stay low, stay low!
01:32Entire buildings are wiped away in the blink of an eye,
01:35and the threat of flying debris never ends.
01:38The movie also isn't afraid to kill off major characters.
01:41Imagine getting swept up by 200 mile-per-hour winds,
01:44and then falling from 10 or 20 stories.
01:47It has to be one of the most terrifying ways to go.
01:49You're gonna be okay!
01:52Keep holding on!
01:52I've got you!
01:54I've got you, Kate!
01:56I've got you!
01:58Number 28.
01:59Pompeii
02:00Kit Harington plays a gladiator during the last days of the ancient Roman city of Pompeii.
02:04In 79 AD, Mount Vesuvius erupted,
02:08burying the city in lava, rock and ash, and killing thousands.
02:12The residents of Pompeii had no idea the eruption was coming.
02:15In fact, they probably didn't even know that Vesuvius was a volcano.
02:19It's time to go, my friend.
02:20No.
02:21The harbor's gone.
02:21We have to find another way.
02:23Then we have to go south into the hills.
02:24It's too far. We'll never make it on foot.
02:26Let me go there.
02:27The film was a bit of a flop, but definitely not because of the eruption scenes.
02:31Those are awesome.
02:33Flaming rocks fly through the air,
02:35people get trampled as crowds panic,
02:37and a tsunami destroys everything in its path.
02:39It's not a perfectly accurate recreation of the event,
02:42but it is an exciting one.
02:44Look at me.
02:50Just me.
02:51Number 27.
02:53Armageddon.
02:54The scariest part of this early Michael Bay film
02:56is knowing that it will happen someday.
02:59Not this exact scenario, obviously,
03:01but giant asteroids have hit the Earth before and they will again.
03:04And even a moderately sized asteroid can cause major devastation.
03:07It's what we call a global killer.
03:10The end of mankind.
03:12Doesn't matter where it hits,
03:14nothing would survive, not even bacteria.
03:16The scenes of huge space rocks wiping out New York, Shanghai and Paris are chilling.
03:21And the thought that there's almost nothing we could do about it is even worse.
03:24Seeing an entire city reduced to rubble in seconds is enough to give anyone nightmares.
03:29Even if you're lucky enough to survive,
03:31the fallout might make you wish you hadn't.
03:33So while the consciousness of the planet is unified,
03:36focused on the NASA mission taking place right now in the vast ocean of space,
03:40we're now in the final hours of the mission
03:42for freedom and independence prepared to slingshot around the moon.
03:46Number 26.
03:47719.
03:48If you're claustrophobic, this movie is definitely not for you.
03:54Most disaster movies don't linger on the suffering.
03:56In the previous films on our list,
03:58it's implied that deaths are quick and not that painful.
04:01That is not the case for 719,
04:04which revolves around a real-life earthquake
04:06that killed thousands of people in Mexico City in 1985.
04:09The movie takes place almost entirely in the rubble of an office building,
04:13where two trapped men and a handful of other survivors
04:16try to keep each other from going crazy.
04:18They're terrified and in pain,
04:20and they have no idea whether help is coming.
04:22The film is almost scary enough to be classified as a horror.
04:27Number 25.
04:29Underwater.
04:30This movie actually is classified as horror.
04:32Kristen Stewart stars in this underrated 2020 sci-fi,
04:36which takes place in the near future.
04:38After an earthquake destroys a drilling operation at the bottom of the ocean,
04:41the surviving workers stationed there have to evacuate.
04:44What the hell was that?
04:47Oh my God!
04:48You're going to explode!
04:50With not enough escape pods to go around,
04:52several of them are forced to put on pressure suits
04:55and walk to the nearest intact facility a mile away.
04:58In addition to the dangers of the extreme depths,
05:00they encounter horrifying monsters in the water who want to eat them alive.
05:04It's basically 47 meters down meets alien.
05:07Come on, we gotta get to the pod.
05:09Come on, bud.
05:11Begin evacuation to surface immediately.
05:15Number 24.
05:16The Wandering Earth.
05:17You might have heard that someday the sun will expand until it swallows the Earth.
05:21In this Chinese film,
05:22that day arrives much sooner than people expected.
05:25How can humanity possibly survive such an event?
05:28By creating thousands of massive thrusters to turn the planet into one big spaceship.
05:33This movie starts by killing off half the Earth's population,
05:36and it only gets freakier from there.
05:38The surface freezes over as the planet moves away from the sun,
05:41and the AI doing the navigating goes rogue and decides to abandon everyone.
05:45On their way out of the solar system,
05:47Earth accidentally gets trapped in Jupiter's gravity
05:50and risks crashing into the gas giant.
05:52The film is an intense thriller that every sci-fi fan should watch.
06:03Number 23.
06:04Greenland.
06:05Similar to these final hours,
06:07Greenland follows a small group of people
06:09as they prepare for the impact of a comet that will obliterate most life on Earth.
06:19The movie flew under the radar thanks to the pandemic,
06:21but the audiences who did see it praised its realism.
06:24As a family attempts to make its way to an underground bunker in Greenland,
06:28they're threatened by more than just a natural disaster.
06:30Desperate to survive,
06:32people swarm airplanes,
06:33attack each other,
06:34and even kidnap the family's kid in hopes it will get them into the bunker.
06:45The violence and mass panic make the humans in the film
06:48much scarier than the actual comet.
06:51Number 22.
06:52Skyfire.
06:53We really shouldn't have to say this,
06:55but don't build a resort right next to an active volcano.
06:58Another big budget Chinese film with impressive special effects,
07:01Skyfire features a group of scientists and tourists on a tropical island
07:04who are caught off guard by an unexpected eruption.
07:15The spectacular scenery and wild action sequences
07:18alone are enough to make this one worth a watch.
07:20Director Simon West has a fantastic eye for danger,
07:23and the cast really sells it.
07:31If you loved Jurassic Park but would rather see a jeep fleeing lava instead of a T-Rex,
07:35then this is the movie for you.
07:37Number 21.
07:38Sunshine.
07:40If we had a nickel for every time
07:41Cillian Murphy played a physicist named Robert
07:44who designs a bomb that will change the fate of the world,
07:46we'd only have two nickels,
07:48but it's weird that it happened twice.
07:49The sun is dying,
07:50and a group of brave scientists and astronauts
07:53plan to fly as close to it as possible
07:55and launch a rocket into the sky.
07:56But it's not going to work.
07:58The premise may sound wacky,
08:00but the movie is anything but.
08:02The crew must face dangerous accidents,
08:04equipment failures,
08:05and of course,
08:06the ever-increasing intensity of the sun.
08:08Some of them don't handle the stress well.
08:11Sunshine is another extremely intense film
08:14where other people are in danger,
08:15and the crew has to deal with it.
08:17It's a lot of work,
08:18but it's worth it.
08:19Number 22.
08:20The Sun.
08:21If we had a nickel for every time
08:23Cillian Murphy played a physicist named Robert
08:25who designs a rocket into the sky,
08:27we'd have a film where other people
08:29are a bigger threat than the actual disaster.
08:32The only dream I ever have
08:33is the surface of the sun.
08:36Number 20.
08:37Everest.
08:38This film stands out from the pack
08:39in that it's actually based on true events.
08:42This helps give it a grounded sense of realism
08:44while also thrilling audiences
08:46with incredible scenes of action and bravery.
08:49I'm done, pal.
08:53I'm done.
08:54The story is based on the 1996 Mount Everest disaster,
08:57which resulted in the deaths of eight climbers.
09:00This is a very well-made film
09:02with hair-raising stunts,
09:03gorgeous cinematography,
09:05and immersive production design.
09:07It's the closest that most of us will get to Everest,
09:10and it allows us to grasp its near-unearthly power
09:13from the safety of our couches.
09:15The health team are gonna go up.
09:17They're gonna man the search as soon as they can.
09:19Anyone who's going, we're gonna leave at dawn
09:22with the committee.
09:22Of course, of course, at dawn.
09:23That's right, David.
09:24Don't let Ed know what's going on.
09:26I'll be right behind you.
09:27Number 19, Aftershock.
09:29This disaster film goes a lot harder than most,
09:32and it may come at the detriment
09:33of some viewers' enjoyment.
09:35Aftershock is about a major earthquake that hits Chile
09:38and the nasty civil unrest that follows.
09:41I promise, Chile didn't suffer.
09:46The violence is far more graphic
09:48than what you typically see in disaster flicks,
09:50depicting realistic dismemberments
09:52and acts of extreme indecency
09:54that are shown in graphic detail.
09:56With the horror coming from the characters
09:58rather than the calamity itself,
10:00Aftershock serves as a unique twist on the genre.
10:03But those wanting more cinematic fun
10:05out of their disaster films would do well to stay clear.
10:17Number 18, White Squall.
10:19Did you know that Ridley Scott
10:20directed a disaster film in the 90s?
10:23It didn't do so well at the box office,
10:25so we'd forgive you if you didn't,
10:27but it's well worth checking out.
10:28It's called White Squall,
10:30and it's about a sailing ship
10:31that sinks in the middle of the ocean.
10:40While the story itself is mostly fiction,
10:43the story came from the sinking of the Albatross in 1961,
10:46which saw the deaths of six people.
10:49The survivors then rowed in small lifeboats
10:51back to Florida.
10:52White Squall horrifyingly portrays
10:54the dangers of the open ocean
10:56and how it can so easily wash away
10:58our structures and ambitions.
10:59The sinking scene is particularly stressful
11:02and directed with the typical assuredness
11:05of Ridley Scott.
11:15Number 17, Crawl.
11:18This movie combines two blood-curdling things,
11:21hurricanes and alligators.
11:23The story concerns Hayley Keller
11:25and her father Dave,
11:26both of whom become trapped in a crawl space
11:28during a ferocious hurricane.
11:36Their situation is made even worse
11:38by circling alligators
11:39who populate the nearby waters.
11:41Crawl is a wonderful homage
11:43to B-movie creature features,
11:44but it's also competently made
11:46with strong direction and good performances.
11:49It's much better than it has any right to be
11:51and features lots of great monster-based spooks.
11:54The violence is suitably bloody,
11:56the setting is eerily claustrophobic
11:59and there are jump scares galore.
12:10Number 16, Earthquake.
12:12The 70s were big on disaster flicks
12:15and Earthquake is one of its standout examples.
12:21I think we should go beyond the codes.
12:23You remember the Sylmar Quake,
12:25a lot of buildings that met the code collapsed.
12:28This film was once the cornerstone
12:30of cinematic technology.
12:32It won a Special Achievement Academy Award
12:34for visual effects
12:35and it was made with an exclusive process
12:37called sense-around
12:38that delivered realistic
12:40and engrossing sound design.
12:41The visual and auditory experiences
12:44combine to create a classic of the genre.
12:46The destruction of Los Angeles
12:48is very cinematic
12:49and captured with horrifying detail,
12:51including many graphic deaths
12:53and moments of great danger.
12:55Even to this day,
12:56Earthquake has the power to shock and amaze.
13:08Number 15, Only the Brave.
13:10Joseph Kaczynski's movie did not perform well,
13:13grossing just 26 million dollars
13:15on a 38 million dollar budget.
13:17It's a shame because Only the Brave
13:18is a fantastic disaster movie
13:20that beautifully honors a real-life tragedy.
13:32It's about the Yarnell Hill Fire,
13:34an Arizona wildfire that occurred
13:36in the summer of 2013.
13:38It was fought by the Granite Mountain hotshots
13:40of the Prescott Fire Department
13:41and 19 of the 20 firefighters
13:44perished in the blaze.
13:45The movie is richly directed by Kaczynski,
13:48offering up plenty of mesmerizing practical effects
13:50that capture the nightmarish reality of wildfires.
13:53Like Everest,
13:54it flawlessly blends realism
13:56with cinematic flourishes,
13:58depicting a true hell on Earth.
14:08Number 14, The Impossible.
14:10The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake
14:12was a cataclysmic disaster
14:14of unimaginable proportions
14:16and it's captured in startling fashion
14:18within The Impossible.
14:19The film expertly balances the humane with the grand
14:22by focusing on one family's experiences
14:24within the bigger disaster.
14:37It does not hold back,
14:39offering many realistic scenes
14:40of intense destruction.
14:42The prolonged tsunami sequence
14:44is absolutely brutal,
14:45complete with widespread carnage
14:47and shocking images of injury and death.
14:50The aftermath is equally upsetting,
14:52with the story packing incredible emotional power.
14:55It examines touching themes of family,
14:58love and endurance,
14:59but it's told through the lens
15:01of a modern catastrophe.
15:03Number 13, Volcano.
15:05You can probably guess
15:06what this classic of the genre is about.
15:08In 1943, a Mexican farmer sees smoke
15:10coming out of the middle of his cornfield.
15:12A week later, there's a volcano a thousand feet high.
15:14There's no history of anything until it happens.
15:17Then there is.
15:18Starring Tommy Lee Jones,
15:19Volcano tells of an eruption at the La Brea Lake,
15:22a volcanic eruption that took place
15:23in the mid-1940s.
15:25It's a story about a man
15:26who's been trapped in a volcano
15:28for over a thousand years.
15:29He's been trapped for over a thousand years.
15:31Volcano tells of an eruption
15:33at the La Brea Tar Pits
15:34and the resulting damage
15:35that it causes to Los Angeles.
15:37This movie trades traditional disaster scares
15:39for a tense and slow-paced atmosphere,
15:42as a huge lava flow slowly approaches
15:44the downtown core of the city.
15:46Of course, there are also many scenes
15:48of calamity and death,
15:50with one, shall we say, melting
15:52being particularly disturbing.
15:54Volcanoes are traditional disaster fare,
15:57but by bringing the action to modern LA,
15:59they bring more apocalyptic dangers
16:00closer to home.
16:02We know a broke through here
16:03at the Tar Pits created this vent.
16:05We now know that a broke through
16:06of a car departed.
16:06That means that it's traveling laterally
16:09underground over the course
16:11of at least eight miles.
16:12Number 12, The Perfect Storm.
16:14Those who hate the open ocean
16:16would do well to avoid The Perfect Storm.
16:19It is, you could say, a perfect storm
16:21of what makes disaster movies work.
16:23Like The Impossible,
16:24it narrows a larger event
16:26to focus on the specific experiences
16:28of a single group.
16:42It's based on Sebastian Younger's
16:44book of the same name,
16:45which details the perfect storm of 1991
16:48and the loss of a fishing vessel
16:49called the Andrea Gale.
16:51The special effects remain eye-popping,
16:53and the hugely talented ensemble
16:55sells the horror of their situation
16:57with gusto.
16:58With startling scenes of ocean-based horror
17:01and a bleak ending,
17:02The Perfect Storm is an unforgettable
17:04viewing experience.
17:14Number 11, Knowing.
17:16While Alex Proyas' disaster flick
17:19does involve extraterrestrial beings,
17:21at the center of the plot
17:22is an apocalyptic natural disaster,
17:24a solar flare that will destroy
17:26all life on Earth.
17:36The lead-up to this calamitous event
17:37is full of portentous biblical imagery,
17:40from the whispering spirits
17:41to the spaceships that represent Noah's Ark.
17:43The movie sets a dour tone
17:45and doesn't really let up
17:46throughout its two-hour runtime,
17:48offering up a modern-day parable
17:50about humanity's vulnerability.
17:52It's a chilling exploration
17:54of just how fragile life is
17:55on a cosmic scale.
17:56-"I'm not saying that 81 people
17:58are gonna die tomorrow, okay?
18:00I'm just trying to understand
18:01why this is saying they will!
18:03Okay, it's spooky, all right?
18:04I'll grant you, it's more than spooky."
18:06Number 10, The Core.
18:07-"All right, I'll put this as simply as I can.
18:12Everybody on Earth is dead in a year."
18:15Sure, it was silly.
18:16All right, downright absurd.
18:17The premise, that the Earth's core
18:19had suddenly stopped rotating,
18:20made no more sense than our hero's plan
18:22to nuke it back to life.
18:24-"Now, with this horrific breaking news,
18:26we go live to San Francisco,
18:28where Leo Jax has the story."
18:30But in a way,
18:31the improbability of their mission
18:32just made it all the more desperate.
18:34Most frightening, however,
18:35was the isolating and claustrophobic nature
18:38of their task.
18:39As they drilled down deep into the Earth,
18:41far from friends, family,
18:43and, well, human beings in general.
18:45Thank goodness for unobtainium,
18:47the material used to build their vessel.
18:49Despite the silliness,
18:50there are some knuckle-biting scenes
18:52when it all goes wrong,
18:54that left audiences sweating
18:55as much as the crew.
18:56-"Oh, sir!"
18:58-"It's okay. It's okay."
18:59-"Come on, now!"
19:00-"Sir!"
19:02Number 9.
19:03Dante's Peak.
19:04-"Did anybody feel that?"
19:06Amid all the movies about volcanic eruptions,
19:08Dante's Peak has a reputation
19:09for being relatively accurate.
19:11Emphasis on relatively.
19:13Experts praised the special effects
19:14and the portrayal of the geological survey team,
19:17but were less impressed
19:18with how different volcanic processes
19:20are all mixed in together.
19:21In striking this balance, though,
19:22the movie manages to build tension
19:24in a convincing way,
19:25before delivering a horrifying eruption scene
19:28that puts other volcano movies to shame.
19:35Sure, a lake probably couldn't transform
19:37into an acid bath quite so quickly,
19:39but if you want to see
19:40what the apocalypse would look like,
19:42Dante's Peak has it all.
19:47Number 8.
19:48San Andreas.
19:49-"How bad did they get hit?"
19:56-"Not six."
19:59Was it big, loud, and preposterous?
20:01Absolutely.
20:02But the visual effects were on point.
20:04And the premise of a devastating earthquake
20:07in California?
20:08All too real.
20:09Brad Peyton's 2015 disaster film,
20:11San Andreas,
20:12pit Mother Nature against Los Angeles
20:14and the San Francisco Bay Area.
20:16And although The Rock did his best to save the day,
20:18it's pretty clear who won.
20:20While the science might have been fudged,
20:22the incredible CGI
20:24made the movie frightening nonetheless.
20:25The moment the Earth ripples
20:27like a rug being shaken
20:28is chilling enough,
20:29but the subsequent scenes
20:30of chaos and destruction
20:32are positively terrifying.
20:40Number 7.
20:412012.
20:48-"We cannot."
20:50It's the disaster movie with it all.
20:52Roland Emmerich's epic disaster bonanza
20:54played on popular paranoia
20:56leading up to the year 2012,
20:57when according to some,
20:59the world was supposed to end.
21:00-"It's the apocalypse.
21:02End of days.
21:04The judgment day.
21:05The end of the world, my friend."
21:08After all,
21:09the year marked the end of a long cycle
21:10in the Mayan calendar,
21:11and therefore,
21:12the sky is falling.
21:14While that didn't happen,
21:15the movie 2012 certainly did its damnedest
21:18to frighten the bejesus out of us.
21:19The eruption of Yellowstone
21:21in particular was terrifying,
21:23especially since it actually
21:24could blow sometime in the future,
21:26even if not for the mumbo-jumbo reasons described.
21:39Number 6.
21:40Deep Impact.
21:41-"This comet is larger than Mount Everest.
21:44It weighs 500 billion tons."
21:48You're either a Deep Impact
21:49or an Armageddon kind of person.
21:51For this list,
21:52we're going with Deep Impact
21:53as the scarier movie,
21:54even though Armageddon was a lot more fun.
21:56-"Get off the nuclear warhead."
22:01With a comet heading for Earth,
22:02Robert Duvall's character,
22:04Captain Spurgeon Fish Tanner,
22:06leads a last-ditch mission
22:07to save the planet.
22:09Back on the ground,
22:10there's an incredible sense of helplessness
22:11as people prepare for the worst.
22:13The lottery system to decide who survives
22:16is much too plausible,
22:17and that tsunami scene
22:18with Talioni and Maximilian Schell
22:20waiting on the beach
22:21still haunts our nightmares.
22:29Number 5.
22:30The Poseidon Adventure.
22:36The Poseidon Adventure
22:37was one of the most ambitious movies
22:38of the 1970s
22:40and, along with the towering inferno and airport,
22:42helped give rise to the disaster genre.
22:45It follows the sinking
22:46of a fictional luxury liner,
22:48and for a movie released in 1972,
22:50it still looks horrifyingly spectacular
22:52thanks to its Academy Award-winning visual effects.
23:02In fact,
23:02it wasn't until Titanic,
23:0425 years later,
23:05that a sinking ship
23:06was so viscerally captured on film.
23:08If you've only seen the 2006 remake,
23:10do yourself a favor
23:11and watch the original,
23:12and while you're at it,
23:13purge the remake from your memory.
23:32The Day After Tomorrow
23:34is classic Roland Emmerich.
23:36Loud and utterly baffling,
23:37yet absolutely thrilling
23:39thanks to its spectacular visual effects.
23:41Sometimes you just want to see
23:42the world get destroyed.
23:43And when it comes to that,
23:44The Day After Tomorrow has no rival.
23:54This movie has it all,
23:55from devastating tornadoes and hailstorms
23:57to a massive tsunami
23:59that sweeps its way
24:00through the streets of Manhattan.
24:01The image of the Statue of Liberty
24:02being swallowed by a storm surge
24:04is iconic stuff.
24:05The movie is basically
24:07a greatest hits collection
24:08of all the best disaster scenarios,
24:10and they're all shown
24:11in breathtaking and terrifying fashion.
24:13Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds
24:30is a horror thriller
24:31with all the hallmarks
24:32of a great disaster movie too.
24:34You've got your ominous warning signs
24:36in the form of the first attacks
24:37and birds flying into windows,
24:39and then come escalating scenes
24:41of ever greater chaos and destruction,
24:43including a corpse
24:44with its eyes gouged out,
24:45a hysterical prophet of doom,
24:47and an explosion at a gas station.
24:55Then of course,
24:56there's that famous downer ending
24:58that signals the possible
24:59end of the world as we know it.
25:01It's certainly a classic horror movie,
25:03but in some ways,
25:04it's also a precursor
25:05to the entire disaster genre.
25:13Number 2.
25:14The Wave
25:20This small budget Norwegian movie
25:22blew away critics,
25:23with special effects
25:24to rival Hollywood blockbusters.
25:26Inspired by real natural disasters
25:29in Norway's northwestern fjords,
25:30The Wave follows a geologist
25:32and his family
25:33as they try to escape
25:34a 260 foot tall tsunami.
25:36It's a simple story
25:37and it borrows many disaster cliches,
25:40but its slow pace
25:41allows audiences
25:42to broil in the tension
25:44and grow attached to the characters,
25:46which makes the inevitable destruction
25:48all the more compelling.
25:49Every disaster buff
25:50needs to check out The Wave.
25:52Just don't watch the horrible English dub.
25:58You know what you should watch though?
26:00The 2018 sequel,
26:01The Quake.
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26:19Number 1.
26:19Moonfall
26:20We don't know about you,
26:21but nothing scares us more
26:23than the moon detaching itself
26:25from the Earth's surface.
26:26It's a terrifying sight
26:27and it's a bit scary to watch.
26:29But if you're a fan of horror movies,
26:31detaching from its interstellar orbit
26:33and rapidly hurtling towards Earth.
26:42No, just kidding.
26:43That's ridiculous,
26:43even by disaster movie standards.
26:45Number 1.
26:46Twister
26:55There might be bigger,
26:56louder,
26:57more apocalyptic disaster movies,
26:59but there is no disaster movie
27:01quite like Twister.
27:02Twister captured a nation in 1996
27:04thanks to its relentless action
27:06and impressive set pieces,
27:08some of which have become
27:09iconic staples of the genre.
27:11One only need hear the word Twister
27:13to conjure up images
27:14of a drive-in being destroyed,
27:15a cow being hurled through the air,
27:17or a farm being decimated
27:18by a massive cloud of swirling black dust.
27:21It was enough to give kids nightmares
27:24and to make adults fear
27:25the wrath of tornadoes.
27:26Who knew scientific research
27:28was so action-packed?
27:32What is that?
27:33No, hurry!
27:35Hurry!
27:36Hurry!
27:40Which disaster movie gave you nightmares?
27:42Let us know in the comments below.
27:51Some sort of huge, horrific,
27:54terrifying nightmare!
27:55Only this is the real thing!
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