Disaster Movie
1990s-present · International
Also known as The Disaster Movie
An improvised disaster film — audience picks the disaster (earthquake, alien invasion, flood) and a location; cast introduces doomed characters before and during the catastrophe.
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- Audience suggests disaster type and location (high school, cruise ship, office building) where many characters can gather.
- Cast establishes disaster-movie clichés (the skeptical scientist, the estranged couple, the doomed best friend) before the catastrophe.
- Tech support — light, sound, smoke, distorted guitar — is heavily featured.
- Most survivors die spectacularly; flashbacks provide character backstory.
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