The disaster movie is almost as old as Hollywood itself but it didn’t became a genre unto itself until the 1970s with such offerings as Irwin Allen’s The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno and countless others, so by the end of the decade its no surprise that this genre was ready for a parody. …
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Airport (1970) – Review
In 1970, Universal Studios kicked off a franchise that would set the tone for the disaster movies of the 70s and the decades to come; based on Arthur Hailey’s popular novel of the same name, Airport would become one of the studio’s top earners that year and its formula of personal stories intertwined with horrific events…
Red Eye (2005) – Review
By the end of the 90s director, Wes Craven had already cemented his position as one of the true kings of horror, from grungy low-budget offerings like The Hills Have Eyes, a supernatural outing that brought the world Freddy Krueger and the meta-horror of the Scream franchise, but in 2005 with a screenplay by Carl…