The Towering Inferno (1974)

Considered a genre classic by “Master of Disaster” Irwin Allen, it’s not Inferno‘s epic film cred that gives it an edge on that famous sinker.
Actually, the simularities between the two seem to outweigh most of the differences: Both events are caused by human error and a large casualty amount is ensured by the pathetic ego of a greedy man on a power trip. All star casts, multiple Academy Awards and the death of major characters also tie these two films together, but with one main point of separation: It takes nearly two hours for Cameron’s Titanic to reach critical mass, where as in Inferno, the flames get just as much screen time as Paul Newman.
Next: The Abyss: The Director's Cut (1989)
The Abyss: The Director’s Cut (1989)

The brain child of James Cameron at the tender age of 17, The Abyss deals in submarine tragedies, underwater terrestrial life forms and the flawed nature of human kind.
But what makes this Cameron’s superior disaster flick is the director’s cut of the film, in which megatsunami-level waves rush toward every coast at the hands of the NTIs, who are in control of the water. Just thinking about the devastating reach of the giant walls of water washing over every coastline in the world makes my head spin. Makes a boat with a hole in it seem a little small, doesn’t it?















