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Apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of civilization due to a potentially existential catastrophe such as nuclear warfare, pandemic, extraterrestrial attack, impact event, cybernetic revolt, technological singularity, dysgenics, supernatural phenomena, divine judgment, climate change, resource depletion or some other general disaster.
A subgenre, the "plane crash survival movie", involves characters placed in a dangerous environment by an initial airplane crash. [5] Airplane crashes have been described as "the easy and obvious device" for dramatically incorporating an airplane into the plot of a film, [ 6 ] and as "a Hollywood staple", [ 1 ] with various levels of praise or ...
The Day After Tomorrow is a 2004 American science fiction disaster film [2] conceived, co-written, co-produced, and directed by Roland Emmerich, based on the 1999 book The Coming Global Superstorm by Art Bell and Whitley Strieber, and starring Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Sela Ward, Emmy Rossum, and Ian Holm.
Natural horror is a subgenre of horror films that features natural forces, [1] typically in the form of animals or plants, that pose a threat to human characters.. Though killer animals in film have existed since the release of The Lost World in 1925, [2] two of the first motion pictures to garner mainstream success with a "nature run amok" premise were The Birds, directed by Alfred Hitchcock ...
This list of disaster films represents over half a century of films within the genre. Disaster films are motion pictures which depict an impending or ongoing disaster as a central plot feature. The films typically feature large casts and multiple storylines and focus on the protagonists attempts to avert, escape, or cope with the disaster ...
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster is a 1997 bestselling nonfiction book written by Jon Krakauer. [1] It details Krakauer's experience in the 1996 Mount Everest disaster , in which eight climbers were killed and several others were stranded by a storm.
Documentary films about natural disasters (3 C, 9 P) H. Documentary films about Hurricane Katrina (14 P) M. Documentary films about maritime disasters (2 C, 8 P) S.
A disaster film or disaster movie is a film genre that has an impending or ongoing disaster as its subject and primary plot device. Such disasters may include natural disasters , accidents , military / terrorist attacks or global catastrophes such as a pandemic .