70's disaster films

[thetoxicone]

I've been through most of the official releases out there including the mod releases by warner.  What are some of the unreleased ones that I should track down on dvdr?

[Living_Dead_Girl]

I never was a disaster movie fanatic. So Idk if I can help you. What Movies do you have in your possesion???

[The Burgomaster]

Have you seen VIRUS (1980)?  Just beyond the 1970s, but at least it's a disaster movie . . . Japanese . . . with English-speaking guest stars.

It's pretty bad.  I have a full-screen version in a Mill Creek 50-Movie Pack, but I believe a widescreen version is available.

[thetoxicone]

Have you seen VIRUS (1980)?  Just beyond the 1970s, but at least it's a disaster movie . . . Japanese . . . with English-speaking guest stars.

It's pretty bad.  I have a full-screen version in a Mill Creek 50-Movie Pack, but I believe a widescreen version is available.

yep, first saw it in one of those 50 packs before picking up the longer version.

[JaseSF]

I have a love for these films. Of course there's the obvious ones which I assume you already have (the Airport films, Earthquake, Poseidon Adventure, Towering Inferno, Earthquake) but you know some sci-fi films from the 70s have elements of this too including Soylent Green, The Omega Man. Films like No Blade of Grass, The Day After and Threads would likely interest you as would perhaps the 70s film Doomwatch as well as the British TV series. The 90s too saw a little bit of a revival of disaster films with Twister, Volcano, Dante's Peak to name but a few.

[thetoxicone]

no blade of grass is on my list of items to pick up on my next warner archive order. 

threads and doomwatch look interesting will have to check them out sometime

[Allhallowsday]

Everybody forgets the wretched METEOR (1979)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GMAq43mh8w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syiVaYmrsHw

[joejoe]

Everybody forgets the wretched METEOR (1979)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GMAq43mh8w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syiVaYmrsHw

I was trying to forget

[Kaseykockroach]

"I call them disaster films because whenever we make one...It's a disaster!"

[Conf]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sm8txY989Iw

[JaseSF]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1cFvtVCtQQ

I haven't seen this one yet but it probably qualifies here. The Last Days of Planet Earth (aka: Catasrophe 1999: Prophecies of Nostradamus). Hear it's pretty bad.

[thetoxicone]

I haven't seen this one yet but it probably qualifies here. The Last Days of Planet Earth (aka: Catasrophe 1999: Prophecies of Nostradamus). Hear it's pretty bad.

that is exactly the thing i need to find a copy of, thanks

[FatFreddysCat]

I was a bigtime disaster-movie junkie when I was a kid. The "Airport" series, "Earthquake," "Towering Inferno," etc., etc.... I saw'em all. Of course most of them have aged terribly but I still can't help but stop and watch if I come across one while channel surfing.

Everybody forgets the wretched METEOR (1979)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GMAq43mh8w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syiVaYmrsHw

I freakin' LOVED "Meteor" when I was a kid. It turned up on SyFy Channel a couple of years ago at 3 in the morning so I recorded it, hadn't seen it in 25+ years. It was cheesy as hell but I still enjoyed it. I'll take it over "Armageddon" or "Deep Impact" to this day.

I picked up "Virus" at a dollar store a while back and was actually kind of impressed by that one as well. It's ludicrous but lots of fun. I was especially tickled by the fact that Chuck "The Rifleman" Connors was cast as a British submarine captain, and he didn't even try to do a British accent. I guess since the film was made by a Japanese company, they must've figured "Who cares? We're just gonna dub over him with a Japanese actor anyway."