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Sunday, May 27, 2012 — 8:00 pm EST by squirrel circus
Nothing apocalyptic came of these fierce-looking clouds that darkened our evening sky on Sunday, but it got me thinking about my favorite “disaster” movies. Some are pure schlock and others are CGI masterpieces. Essentially, they follow one of four story lines….
(images from www.imdb.com)
Space debris (or aliens) on a collision course with Earth
Bizarre weather anomalies and other acts of nature (to include quakes, tornadoes, and volcanoes)
Epic failure of a man-made structure.
Super-sized/altered species terrorizes town
At our house, we definitely go in for this last category. Nothing better on a rainy Sunday afternoon than watching Jon Voight get his crazy on in Anaconda. Unless, it’s watching Joan Collins in Empire of the Ants (1977).
I LOVE that movie. The effects are obvious, and the boys had fun pointing out how “fake” it all was.
I’m sure I’m leaving out some classics, old and new, but I limited myself to movies we’ve watched at home in the last year or so.
What are YOUR favorites?
squirrel circus 
I don’t need to *watch* horror movies! In the past few days alone, our household has experienced: “Invasion of the Stink Bugs”, “Giant Cable Bill From Outer Space”, and “The Debit Card Snatchers”, (or so the boyfriend maintained after leaving his card in a remote mountain ATM on holiday this weekend).
Nice! We recently enjoyed, “It Came From the Crisper Drawer” — scary…..
That’s another whole post – fake horror movies. My favorite is “EEEK!” in which my adoring cat brings me half-dead mice in bed at 4 a.m.
omg! My cat does that too. He’s always stealing things like big blush brushes or my paint brushes so I never turned the light on when he was messing around on the bed. Reached down in the dark – EEEK! I really did say EEEEK because it was a real mouse & not dead… stunned after he hit the wall, but not dead.
SO funny!
Oh yes. Ours would be “What Did The Dog Eat NOW?”
The Seventh Sign is still one of my favs. I remember sneaking in to see it with my bff (it was rated R and my mother still doesn’t think I watch rated R movies, I’m 40)
YES!! That’s a good one 🙂 Isn’t it funny how, even now, our mothers see us as little girls? Of course, I’m the one who refuses to get into the car with the sister…on the principle that she is TOO young to have a drivers license….she’s 35.
My husband can’t watch Aliens enough times. But he watches them alone. That’s the difference w/having boys vs. girls I think. We watch the chick flicks.
True. The boys did watch The Help with me, but, I guess that wasn’t so much chick flick as social commentary. Anytime I get snuffly at the end of a movie or TV show, they’re like “Ew! Mom’s crying!”
Oh man. I can’t stand weather disaster or aliens. I can’t handle it. I like zombie movies, though. Maybe not so much anymore since that man ate that other man’s face in Miami…
Ew!! Real life can definitely be more scary than fiction!