What is it about disaster movies that keep audiences glued to their seats?
Taken out of context, the perverse enjoyment moviegoers across the globe get out of seeing gigantic cities crumble under the might of a looming tornado or a sweeping flood in a disaster movie might seem strange. After all, this isn’t even the kind of blockbuster carnage in a superhero movie that’s entirely divorced from reality. Aliens won’t be raining down on New York anytime soon like in Avengers, but floods do devastate cities every day.
In the 1990s, meanwhile, the disaster movie evolved into something that was keener on capturing the hopefulness of the 1990s rather than the grim uncertainty of the early 1970s. Productions like Deep Impact and Independence Day are all about people from all walks of life coming together to survive in the face of unspeakable horrors devastating the planet.
Of course, not all the reasons disaster movies tend to resonate with audiences are this simple or cozy. Though the Earth gets forever altered in these features, the disaster movie tends to focus on very bog-standard protagonists for American cinema. In the process, these projects subtly emphasize a reassurance to privileged groups of moviegoers to not worry, the status quo that benefits them will endure in the wake of the world ending.
On a more surface-level observation, though, disaster movies tend to resonate with audiences because of their visual effects and chances for striking imagery. The former element is especially apparent in 1970s projects like The Towering Inferno, which brought devastating mayhem to life with intricate model work that dazzled audiences. This and other disaster titles from this era set a high standard for visual effects that other entries in the genre have been chasing ever since.
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