What I would post on Facebook...

[sechan19]

...were I still using it for anything other than email:

Teva Jones now knows more than she ever thought she would about the history of disaster, action, and horror films about airplanes. Always bet on black, yo.

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[bjpachter.blogspot.com (from livejournal.com)]

So which would one of those categories would "snakes" fall under?

[reteva.livejournal.com]

Horror. The true disaster film is, I believe, limited to a very specific period in time - the 1970s and early 1980s. And while the film has its action moments, it's designed largely to go for the gore and jumps - which slots it into the horror genre.

[bjpachter.blogspot.com (from livejournal.com)]

Agreed on the time restriction - there was definitely a boom of them around that time, then they died out. That's not to say that they haven't tried (Deep Impact, for example, and the occasional film that've popped up since the mid 90s), but it's just not the same somehow...