- #MARIO IN ANIMATRONIC HORROR THE NIGHTMARE BEGINS INTRO MOVIE MOVIE#
- #MARIO IN ANIMATRONIC HORROR THE NIGHTMARE BEGINS INTRO MOVIE SERIES#
Disaster movies were in vogue and Universal Pictures entered the fray with Earthquake (1974), a high-stakes environmental thriller that followed the established template faithfully.
#MARIO IN ANIMATRONIC HORROR THE NIGHTMARE BEGINS INTRO MOVIE SERIES#
In the 1970s, a series of event pictures struck gold at the box office with titles including The Poseidon Adventure (1972), The Towering Inferno (1974) and The Swarm (1978) pitting an all-star cast against insurmountable odds. The hospital suffers structural impairment leaving many people trapped underground and it is up to Graff and Slade to lead rescue efforts as the clock is ticking. A series of aftershocks wreak more havoc and soon the city is facing another deadly challenge as the dam threatens to break.
Looming over all of this is the dam outside of town, damaged but intact for the moment. People work together to rescue those in need of assistance and get them to the hospital. The earthquake hits in the middle of the day causing tremendous damage to the city leaving countless injured and scores dead. Geneviève Bujold ( Obsession) is Denise Marshall, a single mother actress having an affair with Graff. Meanwhile, aspiring daredevil Miles Quade (Richard Roundtree, Shaft) is preparing his next big motorcycle stunt. Elsewhere in the city, George Kennedy ( Uninvited) plays Lou Slade, a police officer recently suspended and currently drowning his sorrows at the local bar. Her father, Sam Royce (Lorne Greene, Battlestar Galactica), is CEO of the company and is offering Stuart a promotion to president, but he may just be trying to please his daughter. Ava Gardner ( The Sentinel) is Stuart’s wife Remy, a drama queen with a taste for booze and a knack for causing trouble. A construction engineer, a police officer, an actress, a daredevil and a soldier are some of the people we are following before the nightmare begins and we witness their survival attempts once all Hell breaks loose and the city falls apart.Ĭharlton Heston ( In the Mouth of Madness) stars as Stuart Graff, a successful construction engineer caught in an unhappy marriage with his boss’ daughter. Earthquake sets the stage for a major disaster by first introducing audiences to a wide variety of everyday characters whose lives will intersect one fateful day. Minor tremors strike every year, but the big one, the one that will sink the city remains a distant menace – until now.
#MARIO IN ANIMATRONIC HORROR THE NIGHTMARE BEGINS INTRO MOVIE MOVIE#
Los Angeles, the City of Angels full of sunshine and movie stars, the urban area is built on a fault line and lives under the constant threat of damaging earthquakes.