Jan De Bont's Twister was a big hit in the summer of 1996, primarily due to the then-still novel presence of computer-generated effects. Disaster movies were making a comeback in the mid-1990s, fueled by the new possibilities that manipulated pixels could offer in creating erupting volcanoes, hurtling asteroids, and exploding buildings. The 1970s had given us a whole cavalcade of natural disasters on screens large and small'”tsunamis (1972's The Poseidon Adventure), earthquakes (1974's Earthquake), hurricanes (1974's Hurricane), floods (1976's Flood), and even heat waves (1976's Heatwave!) and swarms of the killer bees (1977's The Swarm). Somehow tornadoes were ... Read More