10 Movies That Changed The (End Of The) World

In light of the recent release of 2012, Michael Adams, author of Showgirls, Teen Wolves, and Astro Zombies: A Film Critic’s Year-Long Quest to Find the Worst Movie Ever Made (on sale 1/19/10), has catalogued in his regular column for Rotten Tomatoes ten landmark films of the disaster genre.

Going as far back at 1900 with his analysis of Panorama of Wreckage of Waterfront and bringing us all the way up to, well, the future with his discussion of The Road (forthcoming), this catalog provides an interesting perspective on how over the past century our fears and vision of our Judgment Day have changed…and stayed the same.