10 Disaster Movies to Die For

By Kyle Rupprecht
URL: http://www.moviemaker.com/distribution/article/best_disaster_movies_to_die_for_20080814/
A cruise ship filled with joyous passengers gets caught in a tsunami and rapidly starts sinking. A catastrophic asteroid, with the power to wipe out the entire human race, hurtles towards Earth. An underground volcano, dormant for thousands of years, unexpectedly sputters back to life in New York City, while a deadly virus is simultaneously unleashed on the population in the midst of a record-shattering earthquake... These are just a few common scenarios found in your typical disaster movie, one of the most audacious and crowd-pleasing subgenres of Hollywood moviemaking.