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Disaster Movies

Can you guess these disaster movies based on a plot description and year?
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First submittedJuly 15, 2013
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Year
Description
Movie
2013
Humanity builds giant robots to fight against monsters from the deep
Pacific Rim
2013
Appropriately named movie about shark-filled tornados that strike Los Angeles
Sharknado
2011
A plane crashes in Alaska and wolves hunt the survivors
The Grey
2009
Man and his family flee the Mayan apocalypse
2012
2008
A monster attacks New York – as filmed by a guy without a tripod
Cloverfield
2004
Weather gets crazy as the Earth suddenly enters a new Ice Age
The Day After Tomorrow
2003
The center of the Earth has stopped spinning somehow!
The Core
2002
A man wakes up from a coma to find that Britain
has been destroyed by a zombie virus
28 Days Later
2000
Fishermen risk a storm to get their fish back to shore – but the storm is too big!
The Perfect Storm
1998
Oil drillers are sent to destroy an asteroid bound for Earth
Armageddon
1998
Another movie about a killer asteroid that came out that same year
Deep Impact
1997
Ship hits an iceberg and sinks
Titanic
1997
Town in Washington state is destroyed by a volcano
Dante's Peak
1996
Storm chasers chase a tornado with predictable results
Twister
1996
Aliens zap the White House and other centers of human power, but are
somehow defeated by a simple computer virus
Independence Day
1993
A plane crashes in the Andes and the survivors must resort to cannibalism
Alive
1974
The world's tallest building is shoddily built, causing it to catch fire
The Towering Inferno
1954
Radioactive monster emerges from the deep and destroys Tokyo
Godzilla
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29 Comments
plattitude
+6
Level 94
Jul 30, 2013
And after finishing this quiz, I now have 6666 points. Strangely appropriate.
mwierenga
+7
Level 90
Aug 3, 2013
Many of these are disaster movies in more than one way.
kalbahamut
+4
Level 79
Aug 3, 2013
Truly. Some real turkeys here. But they keep making money so they keep making them, in spite of being awful. As evinced here.
DarthCaedus66
+2
Level 12
Aug 2, 2017
Tell me you don't mean The Day After Tomorrow
FentonsDad
+1
Level 89
Aug 3, 2013
There are too many blankety-blank snakes on this blankety-blank plane!
kalbahamut
+1
Level 79
Aug 3, 2013
You can't say monkey fighting?
kalbahamut
+1
Level 79
Aug 3, 2013
Got everything except The Grey. Never heard of that one.
Moosefight
+4
Level 59
Aug 5, 2013
It may have also been released under the name Liam Neeson: Wolf Puncher
kalbahamut
+2
Level 79
Aug 5, 2013
No way. If it was released under that title then it would have done huge box office and I would have heard of it.
burntfrost
+1
Level 47
May 17, 2014
My brother-in-law says it sucks. The ending is a real letdown.
What
+1
Level 26
Aug 3, 2013
Sharknado? Is that a comedy?
kalbahamut
+6
Level 79
Aug 3, 2013
No it's a documentary.
Hdny42
+1
Level 66
Aug 4, 2013
Great movie that heads in this direction is Take Shelter...but it is more a psychological thriller than a straight disaster movie.
fuanacdc
+4
Level 89
Aug 12, 2014
Wasn't thinking kept trying to spell Apocalypto for the 2012 clue..
DonTheLamplighter
+4
Level 87
Jul 3, 2017
Gojira!
DarthCaedus66
+1
Level 12
Aug 2, 2017
The movie never says the volcano was in Washington. But it may have been implied because of the similarity to the Mount St. Helens eruption.
Djilas
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Level 86
May 12, 2019
Wikipedia says: "Four years later, Harry is assigned by his superior, Dr. Paul Dreyfus, to investigate seismic activity near Dante's Peak, Washington, a town that borders a dormant stratovolcano."

But I've found quite a few imprecise movie plots in Wikipedia, they are less religiously fact-checked than other topics.

Philippelebel
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Level 79
Feb 6, 2026
It also says "Dante's Peak, Washington" on IMDB, but I'm not sure on what grounds. There are indeed a lot of establishing shots showing Mount St Helens, Washington.

But a lot of the filming took place in Wallace, Idaho.

blinky
+1
Level 57
Feb 17, 2018
Kept trying Devil's Peak. I knew it was some kinda peak.
SWATkun
+1
Level 59
Mar 13, 2018
I kept trying Denali's peak.....
Regtheledge1000
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Level 28
Apr 28, 2020
There are some other films which might be good for this quiz

Skyscraper : tallest building in world set alight by owners enemy and dad is blamed but he has to get his family from in the building

San Andreas : Huge earthquakes and tsunamis hit California

Geostorm : climate change destroys world weather but machine is built to stop the storms but Vice President in USA plants a virus in it causing it to destroy many cities.

JSWTW21
+3
Level 40
Sep 17, 2020
Cloverfield is such a good movie and so many people don't know about it.
Freestatebear
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Level 88
Nov 24, 2020
Disappointed that The Poseidon Adventure didn't make the list. After all, the cast included five Oscar winners, and the film itself won two Oscars, a Golden Globe, a BAFTA, and a Motion Picture Sound Editors award! Of the numerous disaster films of that era, it's considered one of the best.
Cygnus2112
+1
Level 68
Mar 31, 2021
Didn't know a single one of these movies that was made after Y2K.
cledun2
+1
Level 95
Jun 17, 2022
I guessed Cannibal! The Musical
GlassMonkeyOLD
+1
Level 69
Mar 27, 2024
What about The Simpsons Movie?
Thomaslmb
+1
Level 28
Apr 22, 2024
I kept insisting on 27 days later instead of 28 ...........
Cellomaster12
+1
Level 38
Aug 20, 2025
What about Greenland, San Andreas, and Moonfall
ToasterXP
+1
Level 53
Oct 14, 2025
Deep impact’s celestial disaster was a comet, not an asteroid!
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