Genre
Natural Disaster Movies
Catastrophe as spectacle and as social test — the ensemble cast exists so the disaster can sort them.
Four textbook cases
Not the best four — the four that define the shape. Start anywhere.
The Towering Inferno
John Guillermin · 1974
Twister
Jan de Bont · 1996
The Impossible
J. A. Bayona · 2012
Deepwater Horizon
Peter Berg · 2016
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