Disaster movie

A disaster movie is a movie that has a disaster (e.g. an asteroid collides with Earth) as its subject.

They were particularily popular in the early-1970s after the successful release of The Poseidon Adventure[?] in 1972, which led to a rash of similar movies such as The Towering Inferno, Earthquake and Volcano. These movies all followed a similar formula, including a number of "star" actors appearing in small scenes attempting to escape disaster. The genre burned out by the mid-1970s when they were being produced more and more quickly and with less production effort.

Here are some of them:

• Aftershock: Earthquake in New York[?]
• Armageddon
• Asteroid[?]
• Backdraft[?]
• Dante's Peak[?]
• Deep Impact
• Godzilla
• Independence Day
• Jaws
• Jaws 2[?]
• Jurassic Park
• Jurassic Park III[?]
• The Lost World - Jurassic Park[?]
• Mars Attacks!
• Meteor[?]
• Meteorites[?]
• Night of the Twisters[?]
• The Poseidon Adventure[?]
• The Perfect Storm[?]
• The Swarm[?]
• The Towering Inferno
• Twister[?]
• Volcano
• Volcano: Fire on the Mountain[?]
• The War of the Worlds
• When Worlds Collide[?]