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The plot of some disaster films is based on real events, and not just the boundless fantasy of filmmakers and screenwriters. Many of them leave the audience with the strongest impression.
In our article, you can find a list of 10 creepy disaster films, after which you can fall in love with life again.
10 2012 | 2009
The film was directed by Roland Emmerich and was released in 2009.
According to its plot, an American geologist named Adrian Helmsley goes to India to visit his friend, an astrophysicist. He conducts research in one of the mines and finds a stream of neutrinos there. The geologist speaks about this to the head of the US presidential administration, since the flow is capable of causing global cataclysms.
At the same time, it becomes known that the heads of many states have begun the construction of giant ships on which the wealthy population can escape from the catastrophe.
In 2012, according to the Mayan calendar, the end of the world should occur. The inhabitants of the Earth are watching earthquakes, explosions, Los Angeles goes under water.
During natural disasters, many people die, including some heads of state. People are trying to get to the arks in order to be saved. Some succeed, after the flooding of the planet is over, the survivors can see how it has changed.
9. Tornado | 1996
The film was shot in 1996 by director Jan de Bont. The film was nominated for an Oscar twice. According to the plot of the film, the main character, Joe, has her own accounts with the tornado, as the natural disaster claimed the lives of her parents.
The girl began to work as a meteorologist, developing a methodology by which it would be possible to predict the occurrence of a tornado.
Her husband, Bill, is also a scientist in this field, and together they come up with a device they call Dorothy. It is necessary in order to be sucked in by a tornado, this will help scientists get the necessary readings.
In pursuit of obtaining detailed information about the nature of the tornado, other scientists die, Bill and Joe barely manage to survive.
8. Independence day | 1996
The motion picture was filmed in 1996 and was directed by Roland Emmerich.
According to the plot of the film, an alien ship arrives on Earth, the US President urges people not to worry and not to attack it. However, the intentions of the aliens are by no means peaceful, they begin to destroy large cities.
The Earth military barely manages to capture an alien, from whom they learn that the goal of the conquerors is simple. They want to destroy people and pump out all the natural resources from the planet, and then attack the next one.
Defeating the alien invaders is almost unrealistic, but the American pilot got the idea to approach the cannon of the spacecraft and blow it up, the same is beginning to be done in other countries, destroying alien ships one by one.
7. War of the Worlds | 2005
The film was based on the novel by H. G. Wells and directed by Steven Spielberg in 2005. The plot was based on the author’s thoughts that people are too busy with themselves and do not notice at all that they are being watched by aliens.
The main character of the film is called Ray Farrier, he is a crane operator, his ex-wife leaves him a son and daughter for the weekend. Ray and children find it difficult to find a common language, they do not get along too well.
At night, his son Robbie steals a car and hides from the house. Waking up at night and discovering the absence of his son, Ray goes to look for him and notices a strange storm cloud in the sky.
Soon, giant alien machines on three legs began to appear everywhere, seeking to destroy everything.
Ray and the kids are forced to flee the city. With difficulty, having endured many misadventures, they manage to get to Boston, where Mary Ann, Ray’s ex-wife, is waiting for them.
6. Earthquake | 2016
The film was shot in 2016, its plot was based on the earthquake that occurred in 1988 on the territory of the Armenian SSR.
The film tells about the four days of the disaster, which claimed the lives of more than 25000 people. The film shows what people feel and experience when their relatives and friends die.
At the end of the film, episodes are shown that are recreated from photographs of that terrible time.
5. Metro | 2013
The plot of the disaster film was based on the novel by Dmitry Safonov.
A leak forms in the Moscow metro, the train crashes, some of the passengers die, and the survivors get out of the cars. The following main characters of the film remain among the survivors: Vlad Konstantinov (businessman), Andrey Garin (surgeon), his daughter Ksyusha, Galina, Mikhail (courier), Denis and Alice.
Meanwhile, rescue work is underway on the surface, but getting people out of the subway is not so easy. The atmosphere of the film is very tense, not only because a catastrophe is unfolding around and people are dying, but also because it tells about the Garin family drama.
4. Abyssal Impact | 1998
The sci-fi movie was released on television in 1998. The events in it unfold in the United States.
One of the teenagers, studying in an astronomy circle, sees a strange comet in a telescope, he informs his teacher about it, he conducts research and understands that in a couple of years the celestial body will collide with the Earth, which will cause a global catastrophe.
To save the planet, people are sent into space to blow up a comet. They do not succeed, and the comet, having split into pieces, again approaches the Earth.
At this time, the authorities are trying to evacuate the most valuable people (scientists, doctors, etc.). Part of the comet hits the Earth, causing a powerful tsunami that kills people.
In the end, the comet is nevertheless destroyed by the crew of the spacecraft Messiah.
3. And a storm broke out | 2016
The film is based on a real event in 1952, when an oil tanker was wrecked in a storm off the coast of Chatham.
The main character – Bernard Webber deploys a rescue operation to rescue his team from a sinking tanker.
He does not have enough space for the rescued, the boat can only accommodate 12 people, and there is also a storm around, but he still rescues 32 crew members of the tanker.
2. Dante Peak | 1997
The film was made in 1997 by director Roger Donaldson.
In the story, a scientist named Harry Dalton goes to Dante’s Peak to do research. Here he discovers that a sleeping volcano can wake up, it threatens with a terrible catastrophe.
However, the authorities do not listen to his concerns. Only the mayor of Dante Peak itself, Rachel Wendo, listens to the words of the scientist. However, they fail to convince the inhabitants of the town to evacuate immediately.
But then a terrible eruption begins, which takes away many human lives. Harry and Rachel barely manage to escape.
1. Day after tomorrow | 2004
The plot of the film tells about global warming on Earth, a sharp change in its climate. But soon the scientist Jack Hall warns of a terrible approaching catastrophe, a new ice age, however, the US authorities do not listen to him.
The air temperature begins to drop rapidly, severe cold sets in, people die. Operations are being launched to rescue the survivors, the catastrophe is gradually receding.