Disaster movies are often, well, a disaster. The genre’s halcyon days, when movies like The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno dominated the box office, are long gone, replaced with forgettable Michael Bay ripoffs and gimmicky creature features. But despite those insurmountable odds, there’s one final hope for the disaster genre: existing IP. If the catastrophe occurs in a movie world that already exists, then the genre can find new life.
This was proven this summer with Twisters, Lee Isaac Chung’s sequel to 1996’s singular Twister. It’s an old-fashioned and surprisingly fun blockbuster, and after a very successful theatrical run, Twisters is now available to watch at home.
