Movies about disasters—natural or human-made—have been produced since the earliest days of film. As early as 1916, a disaster with an extraterrestrial cause was touted in The End of the World, a ...

The movie was shot in north central Wisconsin 50 years ago on a scrawny budget, rushing under a tight timeline and with a script pieced together as it was filmed. Even so, once released in 1975, "The ...