Showing posts with label disaster movies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label disaster movies. Show all posts
February 05, 2010

BLACK SUNDAY (1977) - an epic terrorist thriller

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BLACK SUNDAY (1977, USA) The Baader-Meinhof Complex meets The Hindenburg... If you're expecting a disaster movie, which thi...
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September 25, 2009

THE CASSANDRA CROSSING (1976) - outbreak on a train

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THE CASSANDRA CROSSING (1976, West Germany, Italy, UK) This just beat Silver Streak to being the first seventies disaster movie on...
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February 02, 2009

THE DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE (1961) - global warning

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THE DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE (1961, UK) Altogether an enjoyably adult sci-fi thriller, verging on apocalyptic and ringing remarkably true d...
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November 13, 2008

THE TOWERING INFERNO (1974) - a giant among disaster movies

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THE TOWERING INFERNO (1974, USA) During my Earthquake review , I hinted that The Towering Inferno was the mother of all disaster movies, c...
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November 06, 2008

KING KONG (1976) - monstrous disaster movie

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KING KONG (1976, USA) Sitting on a shelf of DVDs, or lost in a list of downloads, movie's are completely stripped of the adve...
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August 22, 2008

JUGGERNAUT (1974) - a very British disaster movie

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JUGGERNAUT (1974, UK) As the American disaster movie genre gained momentum in the seventies, this British film depicted a grittier, more rea...
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May 13, 2008

KRAKATOA - EAST OF JAVA (1969) - or is it west?

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KRAKATOA - EAST OF JAVA (1969, USA) Nice visual effects, shame about the songs After reading Eugene Lourie's book 'My Work In Films...
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May 06, 2008

VIRUS (1980) - whoops apocalypse

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VIRUS (1980, Japan) Slow, grim, apocalyptic disaster that might eventually haunt… I tried to upgrade my tatty old VHS copy of Virus by buyi...