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Not to be confused with the [[Seltzer and Friedberg]] [[Seltzer and Friedberg|movie of the same name]], although that ''was'' technically a disaster movie, being that is was the only film they made that bombed in theaters.
* [[All-Star Cast]]: For some reason, disaster movies are like magnets for A and B-list actors.
** For audiences back then it was genuinely surprising to see big name actors that one assumed were safe die '''horrific''' deaths onscreen, as opposed to just the extras(see the trope below).
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* [[Hollywood Science]]: After all, you can't let little things like the laws of physics get in the way of some awesome destruction.
** [[Accidentally Accurate]]: In most cases, [[Did Not Do the Research]] comes into play, but by pure chance… they got the science is right.
** [[Shown Their Work]]: Where research was done to prove that a disaster can happen, and they aren’t bashful on how.
* [[HSQ]]
* [[Infant Immortality]]: For some reason, a lot of these movies show a baby getting killed, just in case [[Eight Deadly Words|we've ceased to give a fuck]] by this point.
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** Unless you really hate your neighbour...
* [[Outrun the Fireball]]: Often many times in a single movie. Substitute "tidal wave", "fault line", "lava flow", [[Wave Motion Gun]], etc. for fireball as necessary.
* [[Popularity Polynomial]]: Disaster movies went through [[Deader Than Disco]] status ''twice''
* [[Primal Fear]]: If you're [[Claustrophobia|claustrophobic]], [[Not the Fall That Kills You|acrophobic]], [[Incendiary Exponent|pyrophobic]], or any number of other phobias, you will not have a good time.
* [[Red Shirt]]
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* ''Deluge'' (1933): One of the [[Ur Example
* ''San Francisco'' (1936): Another early example, decipting the historical 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. Stars [[Clark Gable]], Jeanette MacDonald and Spencer Tracy.
* ''The High and the Mighty'' (1954): An [[Unbuilt Trope]] example of the genre. Starred [[John Wayne]], who was also co-producer. Its plot, about a plane that suffers engine failure on a flight from [[Hawaii|Honolulu]] to [[San Francisco]], would later be copied by ''Airport''.
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* ''[[Earthquake]]'' (1974): An earthquake destroys [[Los Angeles]]. Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, and Lorne Greene try to survive. This was the first of a handful of '70s films to use Sensurround, a special surround sound system with a powerful bass line. When the city started to rumble, crumble, and tumble, the bass kicked in to literally shake up audiences.
* ''[[The Last Days Of Planet Earth]]'' (1974): Japanese movie. Earth goes through a disaster gauntlet, ranging from [[I Love Nuclear Power|mutant slugs]] to city-engulfing fire-storms, to [[George Carlin|the sky filling with green shit]]. Notable for depicting [[Useful Notes/Nostradamus|Nostradamus]] as Japanese. Not kidding.
* ''The Hindenburg'' (1975): Why did this [[Real Life]] disaster happen? The fictional story chronicles the possibility that it was sabotage. A rare case of a
* ''The Cassandra Crossing'' (1976): A terrorist infected with plague is on a train, so the authorities send it in the directon of a bridge too weak to support it. Can the passengers who don't succumb to the illness save themselves?
* ''[[Film/The Swarm|The Swarm]]'' (1978): In another Irwin Allen effort, killer bees attack [[Everything Is Big in Texas|Texas]]. Yeah. It was around this point that the genre began dying out.
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* ''[[The Core]]'' (2003): [[Critical Research Failure|Earth's core stops rotating thanks to a top-secret military project]] [[Gone Horribly Wrong]], eliminating Earth's magnetic field and causing it to get hit by solar storms. Aaron Eckhart and Hilary Swank go down into Earth's interior to restart the core with nuclear bombs. Makes ''Armageddon'' look like ''Volcano''. [[Lost Aesop|Or something]].
* ''10.5'' (2004): An [[NBC]] [[Miniseries]] about massive earthquakes destroying the West Coast. Its 2006 sequel, ''10.5 Apocalypse'', had a massive fault line opening up in the Midwest and splitting North America in half.
* ''[[The Day After Tomorrow]]'' (2004): [[Hollywood Global Warming]] destroys the world. Starred Dennis Quaid and [[Donnie Darko|Jake Gyllenhaal]].
* ''Category 6: Day of Destruction'' (2004): Another [[Miniseries]], this one from [[CBS]] and starring Randy Quaid and Brian Dennehy. A massive storm (which is, for some reason, [[Critical Research Failure|referred to as a hurricane]]) develops over Chicago and destroys it. Its release [[Follow the Leader|just six months after]] ''[[The Day After Tomorrow]]'' [[Blatant Lies|must be a coincidence]].
** ''Category 7: The End of the World'' (2005): The sequel to the above. The storm from the original moves east and destroys New York and Washington, while similar storms destroy Paris and Egypt. Meanwhile, a televangelist and his wife exploit the storms to gain new converts. Starred Gina Gershon [[What the Hell, Casting Agency?|as the head of FEMA]], as well as [[Beverly Hills, 90210|Shannen]] [[Charmed|Doherty]], James Brolin, and a returning Randy Quaid.
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