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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.
== Common tropes found in this genre include
* [[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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** 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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