Movie Type:  TV movie         MPAA Rating:  PG-13
Director(s):   Il Cho
Writer(s):   Matt Naylor Il Cho
Studio:  Zip Cinema, Perspective Pictures
Year Released:  2020        Running Time:  98 min
Genre:  Action, Drama, and Horror
Category of Disaster:  Creatures, Medical, Virus, and Zombies
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  88%
Plot Snapshot:  An unknown virus causes city residents to become zombies, except for one person in isolation
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The 5th Wave (2016)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  PG-13
Director(s):   J Blakeson
Writer(s):   Susannah Grant Akiva Goldsman Jeff Pinkner Rick Yancey
Studio:  Columbia Pictures, LStar Capital, Material Pictures, GK Films
Year Released:  2016        Running Time:  112 min
Genre:  Action, Adventure, and Sci-Fi
Category of Disaster:  Aliens and Creatures
Ratings:
    Metascore:  33/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  16%
Plot Snapshot:  A teenager tries to protect her brother as aliens continue to attack the Earth
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Links to Buy/Rent:Alien Armageddon (2011)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  R
Director(s):   Neil Johnson
Writer(s):   Neil Johnson
Studio:  Morphius Film, Starlight Entertainment
Year Released:  2011        Running Time:  95 min
Genre:  Action and Sci-Fi
Category of Disaster:  Aliens and Creatures
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  --%
Plot Snapshot:  After aliens infiltrate and destroy almost all the major cities, a woman joins the resistance and searches for her daughter
TDA Checklist Items:  Spectacle (e.g., stuff blows up reeeel good)
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Links to Buy/Rent:Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! (1978)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  PG
Director(s):   John De Bello
Writer(s):   Costa Dillon John De Bello J. Stephen Peace
Studio:  Four Square Productions
Year Released:  1978        Running Time:  83 min
Genre:  Action, Adventure, Comedy, and Horror
Category of Disaster:  Creatures
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  27%
Plot Snapshot:  A town is under siege by lethal tomatoes--can a band of scientists save the day?
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Links to Buy/Rent:Avalanche Sharks (2014)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  NR
Director(s):   Scott Wheeler
Writer(s):   Keith Shaw
Studio:  Odyssey Media, Pulser Productions, Rogue State
Year Released:  2014        Running Time:  82 min
Genre:  Action, Horror, and Sci-Fi
Category of Disaster:  Animals, Avalanche, Creatures, and Planetary
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  --%
Plot Snapshot:  Spring break is being held at a US ski field, for some reason, when guests and staff are attacked by snow sharks summoned by vengeful Native American sharmans long ago. Right.
TDA Checklist Items:  Spectacle (e.g., stuff blows up reeeel good)
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Links to Buy/Rent:Battle in Outer Space (Uchû daisensô) (1959)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  NR
Director(s):   Ishirô Honda
Writer(s):   Shin’ichi Sekizawa Jôjirô Okami
Studio:  Toho Company
Year Released:  1959        Running Time:  90 min
Genre:  Action and Sci-Fi
Category of Disaster:  Aliens and Creatures
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  --%
Plot Snapshot:  Aliens invade the Earth with the aim of destroying the planet, making the major powers have to work together to defeat them
TDA Checklist Items:  Iconic landmark destroyed and Spectacle (e.g., stuff blows up reeeel good)
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Biohazard (1985)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  R
Director(s):   Fred Olen Ray
Writer(s):   Fred Olen Ray T.L. Lankford Miriam L. Preissel
Studio:  Viking Films
Year Released:  1985        Running Time:  84 min
Genre:  Horror and Sci-Fi
Category of Disaster:  Aliens and Creatures
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  --%
Plot Snapshot:  A psychic brings a rampaging alien into our universe. Bad move.
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Biohazard: The Alien Force (1994)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  R
Director(s):   Steve Latshaw
Writer(s):   Patrick Moran Steve Latshaw
Studio:  American Independent Productions
Year Released:  1994        Running Time:  88 min
Genre:  Horror and Sci-Fi
Category of Disaster:  Creatures, Manmade, Monsters, and Runaway technology
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  --%
Plot Snapshot:  A company has created a mutant from human DNA (say it isn't so!). The host mother naturally escapes from the lab, and the new "baby" begins killing all its "fathers," while attempting to mate with its "mothers" (ick). Should the lab keep it under wraps while it hunt the mutant, or blow it wide open?
TDA Checklist Items:  Evil corporate shill / greedy land developer, Spectacle (e.g., stuff blows up reeeel good), and Young scientist / old codger whom no one listens to
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The Birds (1963)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  PG-13
Director(s):   Alfred Hitchcock
Writer(s):   Daphne Du Maurier Evan Hunter
Studio:  Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions
Year Released:  1963        Running Time:  119 min
Genre:  Drama and Horror
Category of Disaster:  Animals and Creatures
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  96%
Plot Snapshot:  When a socialite heads to a seaside town to turn the tables on a practical joker, the birds begin to attack for no reason
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Links to Buy/Rent:The Black Hole (2006)
Movie Type:  TV movie         MPAA Rating:  PG
Director(s):   Tibor Takács
Writer(s):   Kenneth M. Badish Boaz Davidson David Goodin
Studio:  Nu Image / Millennium Films, Active Entertainment, Equity Pictures Medienfonds GmbH & Co. KG III
Year Released:  2006        Running Time:  90 min
Genre:  Sci-Fi and Thriller
Category of Disaster:  Aliens, Creatures, Manmade, Planetary, and Runaway technology
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  --%
Plot Snapshot:  An accident with a particle collider creates two problems in St. Louis: a black hole, and a creature that feeds off energy. That won't stop the government from trying to nuke it, will it?
TDA Checklist Items:  Estranged family members, Evil corporate shill / greedy land developer, Spectacle (e.g., stuff blows up reeeel good), and Young scientist / old codger whom no one listens to
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Blood Quantum (2019)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  NR
Director(s):   Jeff Barnaby
Writer(s):   Jeff Barnaby
Studio:  Prospector Films
Year Released:  2019        Running Time:  96 min
Genre:  Horror
Category of Disaster:  Creatures and Zombies
Ratings:
    Metascore:  63/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  90%
Plot Snapshot:  An indigenous Canadian group remains mysteriously unaffected during a zombie outbreak, leading to confrontations with whites as well as monsters
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Brave New Jersey (2017)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  R
Director(s):   Jody Lambert
Writer(s):   Michael Dowling Jody Lambert
Studio:  BondIt, The Shot Clock
Year Released:  2017        Running Time:  86 min
Genre:  Comedy
Category of Disaster:  Aliens and Creatures
Ratings:
    Metascore:  45/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  47%
Plot Snapshot:  Comedy about the reaction in a small New Jersey town during Orson Welles' 1938 broadcast of War of the Worlds
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Bug (1975)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  NR
Director(s):   Jeannot Szwarc
Writer(s):   Thomas Page William Castle
Studio:  William Castle Productions
Year Released:  1975        Running Time:  99 min
Genre:  Horror and Sci-Fi
Category of Disaster:  Animals, Creatures, Earthquake, and Planetary
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  29%
Plot Snapshot:  An earthquake allows a mutant species of fire-starting cockroaches to emerge, bent on destruction
TDA Checklist Items:  Young scientist / old codger whom no one listens to
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Links to Buy/Rent:Caustic Zombies (2011)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  NR
Director(s):   Johnny Daggers
Writer(s):   Johnny Daggers
Studio:  Daggervision
Year Released:  2011        Running Time:  0 min
Genre:  Horror
Category of Disaster:  Creatures, Manmade, Nuclear, and Zombies
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  --%
Plot Snapshot:  A small town deals with zombies created by the Three Mile Island nuclear disaster
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Chicken Little (2005)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  G
Director(s):   Mark Dindal
Writer(s):   Mark Kennedy Steve Bencich Ron J. Friedman Ron Anderson Robert L. Baird Daniel Gerson Sara Parriott Josann McGibbon David Reynolds Sandra Tsing Loh Mark Dindal
Studio:  Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Feature Animation
Year Released:  2005        Running Time:  81 min
Genre:  Adventure, Animation, and Comedy
Category of Disaster:  Aliens and Creatures
Ratings:
    Metascore:  48/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  36%
Plot Snapshot:  After crying wolf too many times, a runty chicken is proven right when aliens invade. There's a sentence you don't get to type too often.
TDA Checklist Items:  Animal in peril
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Links to Buy/Rent:Cloverfield (2008)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  PG-13
Director(s):   Matt Reeves
Writer(s):   Drew Goddard
Studio:  Paramount Pictures, Bad Robot
Year Released:  2008        Running Time:  85 min
Genre:  Action, Horror, and Sci-Fi
Category of Disaster:  Creatures and Monsters
Ratings:
    Metascore:  64/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  77%
Plot Snapshot:  Beautiful young people race to rescue a friend and escape Manhattan, before the military bombs the monster that's attacking it
TDA Checklist Items:  Estranged family members and Spectacle (e.g., stuff blows up reeeel good)
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Colossal (2016)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  R
Director(s):   Nacho Vigalondo
Writer(s):   Nacho Vigalondo
Studio:  Toy Fight Productions, Brightlight Pictures, Sayaka Producciones Audiovisuales
Year Released:  2016        Running Time:  109 min
Genre:  Action, Drama, and Sci-Fi
Category of Disaster:  Creatures, Manmade, Monsters, and Runaway technology
Ratings:
    Metascore:  70/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  80%
Plot Snapshot:  A recovering alcoholic slowly realizes that she is somehow linked with the destructive actions of a Godzilla-like creature in Seoul, South Korea.
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Crawl (2019)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  R
Director(s):   Alexandre Aja
Writer(s):   Michael Rasmussen Shawn Rasmussen
Studio:  Paramount Pictures, Raimi Productions
Year Released:  2019        Running Time:  87 min
Genre:  Action, Drama, and Horror
Category of Disaster:  Animals, Creatures, Hurricane, and Planetary
Ratings:
    Metascore:  60/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  82%
Plot Snapshot:  A woman battling to save her father during a Category 5 hurricane must face alligators in a flooding house
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Dark Universe (1993)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  R
Director(s):   Steve Latshaw
Writer(s):   Patrick Moran
Studio:  Lionsgate
Year Released:  1993        Running Time:  83 min
Genre:  Horror and Sci-Fi
Category of Disaster:  Creatures and Monsters
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  --%
Plot Snapshot:  An astronaut picks up some alien spores on his way back to Earth, turning him into a killing machine. When his space shuttle crashes in Florida, he goes on a rampage. Hey, maybe he can take care of the Burmese python problem down there while he's at it!
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The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  NR
Director(s):   Robert Wise
Writer(s):   Edmund H. North Harry Bates
Studio:  Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Year Released:  1951        Running Time:  92 min
Genre:  Drama and Sci-Fi
Category of Disaster:  Aliens, Climate change, Creatures, and Planetary
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  94%
Plot Snapshot:  During the Cold War, alien Klaatu and his robot bodyguard Gort land near the White House and try to deliver a message to the world's leaders. Given how politicians are, the pair must resort to a more drastic method to get their attention, before it's too late. Klaatu barada nikto, y'all.
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Links to Buy/Rent:The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  PG-13
Director(s):   Scott Derrickson
Writer(s):   David Scarpa Edmund H. North
Studio:  Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, 3 Arts Entertainment, Dune Entertainment III
Year Released:  2008        Running Time:  104 min
Genre:  Drama and Sci-Fi
Category of Disaster:  Aliens, Climate change, Creatures, and Planetary
Ratings:
    Metascore:  40/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  21%
Plot Snapshot:  Remake of the 1951 original. Alien Klaatu and his robot bodyguard try to tell the world's leaders to make peace before it's too late, but they're not listening. So Klaatu stops the world from spinning. Hey, drastic times...
TDA Checklist Items:  Spectacle (e.g., stuff blows up reeeel good)
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Deep Space (1988)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  R
Director(s):   Fred Olen Ray
Writer(s):   Fred Olen Ray T.L. Lankford
Studio:  Trans World Entertainment
Year Released:  1988        Running Time:  90 min
Genre:  Horror and Sci-Fi
Category of Disaster:  Creatures, Manmade, Monsters, and Runaway technology
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  --%
Plot Snapshot:  A monster created by the U.S. government (what, again?) crashes to Earth and starts the body count. It's up to a couple of local detectives to stop the creature. Plus, a bagpipe seduction scene--not making this up.
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Den blomstertid nu kommer (The Unthinkable) (2018)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  NR
Director(s):   Victor Danell
Writer(s):   Christoffer Nordenrot Victor Danell
Studio:  Crazy Pictures
Year Released:  2018        Running Time:  129 min
Genre:  Action, Romance, and Thriller
Category of Disaster:  Aliens and Creatures
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  100%
Plot Snapshot:  After Sweden is attacked by a mysterious force, a man fights to reclaim the love of his life
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Dinosaur (2000)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  PG
Director(s):   Eric Leighton Ralph Zondag
Writer(s):   Thom Enriquez John Harrison Robert Nelson Jacobs Ralph Zondag Walon Green Gregory Gunter Shirley Pierce Jonathan Roberts Rhett Reese Tamara Lusher
Studio:  Walt Disney Pictures, The Secret Lab, Walt Disney Feature Animation
Year Released:  2000        Running Time:  82 min
Genre:  Action, Adventure, and Animation
Category of Disaster:  Animals and Creatures
Ratings:
    Metascore:  56/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  65%
Plot Snapshot:  As meteors are destroying the land, an orphaned iguanodon and his lemur family battle drought and other dinosaurs to reach a new nesting ground
TDA Checklist Items:  Animal in peril and Spectacle (e.g., stuff blows up reeeel good)
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Links to Buy/Rent:Dire Wolf (Dino Wolf) (2009)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  R
Director(s):   Fred Olen Ray
Writer(s):   Dan Golden Patrick Moran
Studio:  Baby Steps Entertainment
Year Released:  2009        Running Time:  86 min
Genre:  Horror and Sci-Fi
Category of Disaster:  Creatures, Manmade, Monsters, and Runaway technology
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  --%
Plot Snapshot:  Yet another government-created monster is on the loose in--what else--a rural community. The sheriff, the game warden (?), and a couple of Feds are on the job.
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