Do You Know How Many Times NYC Has Been Devastated By Movies?

Apparently the best way to show levels of disasters is to use all your special effects in urban places. But we still can’t believe how many times NYC has been used in movies! 70 TIMES!! Here are the movies and how they have destroy the city:

1. Tsunami

Deluge (1933) and The Day After Tomorrow (2004)

2. Ice Age

Absolute Zero (2005) and 2012: Ice Age (2011)

3. Storm

A Troll in Central Park (1994), Category 7: The End of the World (2005) and NYC: Tornado Terror (2008)

4. Earthquake

Aftershock: Earthquake in New York (1999) and Doomsday Prophecy (2011)

5. Diseases

The Stand (1994) and The Happening (2008)

6. Multiple Natural Disasters and Others

When Worlds Collide (1951), The Day the Sky Exploded (1961), End of the World (1977), Solar Crisis (1990), A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), Disaster Zone: Volcano in New York (2006), Disaster Movie (2008), Knowing (2009), Aftermath: Population Zero (2008) and Life After People (2008)

7. Monsters

King Kong (1933), The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953), Destroy All Monsters (1968), Q (1982), Ghostbusters (1984), Godzilla (1998), Godzilla: Final Wars (2004), King Kong (2005), Cloverfield (2008), Atlantic Rim (2013), Spiders 3D (2013) and Sharknado 2: The Second One (2014)

8. Nuclear Disaster

Five (1951), Invasion U.S.A. (1952), The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1959), Fail-Safe (1964), Watchmen (2009) and The Divide (2011)

9. Alien Invasion

Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956), Independence Day (1996), Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001), War of the Worlds (2005), The Day The Earth Stood Still (2008), The Day the Earth Stopped (2008), War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave (2008), Skyline (2010), Oblivion (2013), Pixels (2015) and The 5th Wave (2016)

10. Meteor Strike

Meteor (1979), Armageddon (1998), Deep Impact (1998), Tycus (2000) and The Time Machine (2002)

11. Zombies

Zombi 2 (1979) and I Am Legend (2007)

12. Unknown Reasons

Captive Women (1952), Planet of the Apes (1968), Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970), 2019, After the Fall of New York (1983), Children of Men (2006) and Battle: Los Angeles (2011)

13. Superheros

The Avengers (2012), The Incredible Hulk (2008)

14. Robots

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004) and Devil Man (2004)

15. Other Reasons

Escape from New York (1981), Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009) and Daylight (1996)

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Originally published at secretnyc.co.