Disaster Movie

When it comes to disaster motion picture , it is typically severe weather condition conditions that rule the twenty-four hours . Since everyone – regardless of where one lives – deal with bad weather of some sort , most people have some personal experience to bring into these movies with them . Be it tornados , earthquakes , hurricane or more , there is a bad weather movie out there for everyone .

However , the calibre of these moving-picture show varies drastically . Roland Emmerich has made it his goal to seemingly destroy the populace in every viable manner , from alien invasions to worldwide weather condition catastrophe .   Other filmmakers have done their work with earthquake , volcano , and tsunamis . Even others have used conditions to tell modest scale stories to even greater effect . Here is a look at the 10 best weather movies , ranked .

SHARKNADO

So , mayhap there are a lot of movies that   better fit this ranking thanSharknado , but this disaster movie was so successful that it needs cite . Crazily enough , as nuts as this conception is , there have now been six picture show in the Sharknado serial and some moderately famous names signed on for cameos .

The idea is simple   albeit a bit ludicrous . Ian Ziering and Tara Reid lead the cast as a husband and wife who encounter a cyclone that brings swarm of sharks in its travelling bag . This weather intend tornado - like winds that fling sharks through the air , with their mouth open ready to eat anything in its path .

THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW

When it come to weather - related disaster movies , Roland Emmerich is the king . While some of his films are painful ( 2012 ) , others process well – thanks mostly to the grapheme . InThe Day After Tomorrow , Dennis Quaid and Jake Gyllenhaal pass a cast through a fresh ice age .

The movie takes the estimate of climate change and uses it to result in severe conditions catastrophes . While scientist attempt to monish of impending doom , the U.S. government ignores   their business organisation and the new deoxyephedrine historic period occurs , resulting in the death of millions . What makes this movie work so well is the focus on a home and their fight for selection and balancing .

THE FOG

Whatever you do , please do n’t watch the 2005 remake with Tom Welling and Maggie Grace . That movie has a four - percent Rotten Tomatoes rating and it is well deserved . However , in 1980 , John Carpenter follow up his groundbreaking ceremony 1978 slasher filmHalloweenwith this taradiddle of the supernatural .

The Fog star Adrienne Barbeau , Jamie Lee Curtis , Tom Atkins , and Janey Leigh in this movie about a heavy fogginess that sweeps into a modest coastal Ithiel Town . From the fog comes the ghosts of gob killed when they shipwreck there years before . The motion picture is a cult classic with one of the honorable horror music scores   of all - meter .

STORM OF THE CENTURY

Stephen King is from Maine and knows all about regretful weather . That   explain   his tendency to integrate it into many of his stories . tempest of the Centuryis different from most   King movies since this was never a novel and the Master of Horror write it as a screenplay from the offset . The photographic film hit in 1999 and King afterwards bring out the screenplay translation itself .

The movie takes place in a coastal township near Maine where a potent storm rolls in and shut off the Ithiel Town from the residue of the world , including cutting out their communicating as well . Soon , a stranger appears named Andre ( Colm Feore ) who acknowledge everyone ’s secret and take one of their tiddler in telephone exchange for the natural selection of the Ithiel Town .

THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE

Released in 1972,The Poseidon Adventurefocuses on a luxury sea lining called the SS Poseidon that was on its last voyage before heading to the scrap yard . Like most " one last mission " moving-picture show , things do not go well . A tsunami strikes and the ship overturns , the survivor frantically seeking a way to prophylactic , before it is too late .

The motion picture was a huge success , with two Oscar winnings and a Golden Globe honour . Much of the succeeder is due to the tremendous cast , include Gene Hackman , Shelley Winters , Ernest Borgnine , and Red Buttons . In 2006 , Wolfgang Peterson also made a adequate remaking   calledPoseidon .

THE MIST

The second Stephen King motion-picture show on this listing is also the second movie that focuses on a fog roll into a lowly township . UnlikeThe Fog , which saw murderous ghosts come out , The Mistsaw the town overrun by giant fauna and monsters . However , as unsafe as the monsters are , some of the humans trapped with the heroes   are consummate wickedness .

Thomas Jane star as a forefather trapped with his Word while Marcia Gay Harden was a fundamentalist who believe God was punishing them for being sinners and felt forfeit was needed to go . Frank Darabont , who also maneuver King’sShawshank Redemption , helm this film and also make a greatblack and white adaptation .

THE PERFECT STORM

Before   Wolfgang Petersen redo the classic Poseidon Adventure , he already make one visually dynamic weather movie coiffure on the high ocean . Based on the novel by Sebastian Junger , The Perfect Stormstars George Clooney   and Mark Wahlberg as members of a commercial fishing watercraft caught in the Perfect Storm of 1991 .

That was a real violent storm that formed on Oct. 28 , 1991 , and last until Nov. 2 . There were 13 death and over $ 200 million in damages due to the literal storm . The movie tells the story of the little crew aboard the sauceboat as they attempt to make it back to shore but ultimately fail .

TWISTER

Possibly the most famous weather movie establish on natural disasters isTwister , based on a life-threatening outbreak of tornadoes in Oklahoma and the brave tempest chasers in pursuit of the dangerous twisters . Jan de Bont ( Speed ) directed the moving-picture show , which has gained a furore following since its release in 1996 .

Bill Paxton led his twister chasers after bigger and more dangerous tornado , while Helen Hunt is the former married woman who live an F5 crack cocaine as a little girl while losing her father in the incident . When a Modern F5 strikes Oklahoma 27 age after , they cease up back together to attempt to get a research gimmick into the center of the twister to help them learn more about it to help oneself lay aside more lives in the time to come . There are also flying cows .

SNOWPIERCER

Snowpierceris base on the French comic book of the same name , engineer by Bong Joon - ho ( The master of ceremonies ) . The story focalise on a future event where climate change causes the next ice age ; however , this metre , the governments of Earth know it is coming and make the necessary preparations . They construct a earth - spanning racecourse and a self - hold up power train .

They then betray spot on the train to the flush and affluent . The gearing is separate up by class , with the full-bodied in the front and in-between stratum in the middle . When a mathematical group of poor people cannonball along the train , they are allowed on but only in cattle cars in the back . The movie then shew the partitioning of this hierarchy as those in the back rebel .

THE SHINING

The third and last Stephen King movie on this list is one of the greatest horror motion picture ever made . Stanley Kubrick adjust King’sThe Shining , and while King hates the moving-picture show because of liberties taken with the storey , as a horror moving picture , it is a masterly work of horror .

The conditions here is a typical wintertime storm in Colorado . Jack Torrance ( Jack Nicholson ) , a recover boozer , moves his wife and son into the Overlook Hotel to care for it during the winter month . unhappily , his urge to drink in recurrence and the ghosts of the hotel drive him   insane as the Baron Snow of Leicester cuts them off from the ease of the world .

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The 10 Best Weather Movies, Ranked

New York City lays silent after a cataclysmic weather event in The Day After Tomorrow

The 10 Best Weather Movies, Ranked

The 10 Best Weather Movies, Ranked

Gene Hackman climbing a ladder in The Poseidon Adventure

The 10 Best Weather Movies, Ranked

A commercial fishing vessel riding a massive wave in The Perfect Storm

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The 10 Best Weather Movies, Ranked

The 10 Best Weather Movies, Ranked

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