Movies such as The Towering Inferno and The Poseidon Adventure marked Irwin as “The Master of Disaster” with these big-budgeted disaster theatrical releases, but he also brought some of his movie mayhem to the small screen, case in point, his 1976 made-for-television movie Flood. Of course, the problem with taking the disaster genre to the…
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Deluge (1933) – Review
Presumed lost for years, the 1933 film Deluge, released by RKO Pictures, but produced by a small company called Admiral Productions Inc, is a film that could be argued as to be one of Hollywood’s earliest true disaster films, preceding such films as The Last Days of Pompeii (1935), and the big earthquake movie San…
City on Fire (1979) – Review
By the late 70s, the golden age of the disaster film was coming to a close – Irwin Allen’s 1980 commercial bomb When Time Ran Out would be the nail in that particular coffin – but in 1979, a joint American/Canadian venture released a movie about an entire city ablaze, a film called City on…
Skyscraper (2018) – Review
Blending a disaster movie with a heist plot is nothing new – though the latest one being The Hurricane Heist was god awful – and having it star Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is definitely going to put more bums in the seats, but sadly the filmmakers never thought further than the premise of The Towering…
The Hurricane Heist (2018) – Review
I’m a sucker for disaster films, so the idea of blending in a Die Hard style heist with a natural disaster was pretty much catnip to me. Sadly, director Rob Cohen fails on both counts as this movie is neither an exciting disaster flick nor is it a good caper film.