What a disaster: Lava come down soft and hot, you betta lava me now, or lava me not

WHEN TIME RAN OUT...

1980

Directed by James Goldstone

Written by Carl Foreman and Stirling Silliphant

Spoilers: moderate

What a disaster: The Zeus Katachthonios adventure

CAVE-IN!

1983

Directed by Georg Fenady

Written by Norman Katkov

Spoilers: moderate

What a disaster: "Geological faults"? I knew sooner or later you'd get around to that tired old chestnut

THE NIGHT THE BRIDGE FELL DOWN

1983

Directed by Georg Fenady

Written by Arthur Weiss, Ray Goldstone, Michael Robert David, and Alvin Boretz

Spoilers: moderate

What a disaster: Can't you see the morning after?

BEYOND THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE

1979

Directed by Irwin Allen

Written by Nelson Gidding (based on the novel by Paul Gallico)

Spoilers: moderate

What a disaster: Stop saying "tram"

HANGING BY A THREAD

1979

Directed by Georg Fenady

Written by Adrian Spies

Spoilers: moderate

What a disaster: Fear of a bee planet

THE SWARM

1978

Directed by Irwin Allen

Written by Stirling Silliphant (based on the novel by Arthur Herzog)

Spoiler alert: moderate

What a disaster: Only you can prevent them

FIRE

1977

Directed by Earl Bellamy

Written by Norman Katkov and Arthur Weiss

Spoiler alert: moderate

What a disaster: The devil with that report

FLOOD

1976

Directed by Earl Bellamy

Written by Dan Ingalls

Spoiler alert: moderate

What a disaster: Maybe they ought to leave it the way it is—a kind of shrine to all the bullshit in the world

THE TOWERING INFERNO

1974

Directed by John Guillermin and Irwin Allen

Written by Stirling Silliphant (based on the novels The Tower by Richard Martin Stern and The Glass Inferno by Thomas N. Scortia and Frank M. Robinson)

Spoiler alert: moderate

What a disaster: There's got to be a morning after

THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE

1972

Directed by Ronald Neame

Written by Stirling Silliphant and Wendell Mayes (based on the novel by Paul Gallico)

Spoiler alert: a little bit more than moderate, a little bit less than high

Cardboard Science: Challenger of the unknown

THE LOST WORLD

1960

Directed by Irwin Allen

Written by Charles Bennett and Irwin Allen

Spoiler alert: moderate