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(OK, so I don't actually have a fear of flying - I just find it uncomfortable and boring. But I thought the title fit well with my other threads.)
So I'm taking on a different kind of project starting this year. I really enjoy watching films with a theme and reviewing them, but without such a rigid schedule that my other yearlong pursuits have required. This then will be a thread of airplane movies, which I'll still probably review at least weekly, but I won't beat myself up if I skip a week or two here and there.
I started off just researching airplane disaster films, but soon discovered that the disaster genre overlaps fairly frequently with bomb plots and hijackings. So I included those too. Further research led me to a previously unknown sub-genre (to me) of airline horror (zombies and the supernatural), so those got thrown into the mix too. As far as I could gauge from Wikipedia and IMDB entries, I tried to limit myself to films where the bulk of the running time occurred on a plane; this meant axing plane crashes that were the trigger for survival-type films, such as 'Alive' or 'Flight of the Phoenix'. But it was more of a guideline than a rule, and I'm sure there are some on this list that I'll discover don't quite fit my original criteria.
Like my earlier threads, I have only seen one or two of these films with any certainty previously. As the months roll by, no doubt I'll be reminded why I never bothered to check some of these out before.
Here's my list - more or less in a chronological order, unless it seemed like some films should be grouped together:
Zero Hour! - [1957]
Terror in the sky - [1971]
Airplane! - [1980]
13 Hours by air - [1936]
No highway in the sky - [1951]
The High and the Mighty - [1954]
Jet over the Atlantic - [1959]
Jet Storm - [1959]
The Crowded Sky - [1960]
Twilight Zone: Nightmare at 20,000 feet [TV] [1963]
Airport - [1970]
Skyjacked - [1972]
This is a Hijack - [1973]
Horror at 37,000 feet - [1973]
Mayday at 40,000 feet - [1976]
Murder on Flight 502 - [1975]
Airport 1975
Airport ‘77
The Night they took Miss Beautiful - [1977]
SST: Death Flight - [1977]
The Ghost of Flight 401 - [1978]
Crash - [1978]
The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper - [1981]
Air Crew [Russian] - [1979]
Flight Crew [Russian, remake] - [2018]
Concorde: Airport 1979
Starflight One - [1983]
Airplane II - [1982]
The Taking of Flight 847 - [1988]
Fire and Rain - [1989]
Crash: The Mystery of Flight 1501 - [1990]
Miracle Landing - [1990]
A Thousand Heroes - [1992]
Passenger 57 - [1992]
Freefall - [1995]
Panic in the skies - [1996]
Hijacked - [1996]
Executive Decision - [1996]
Air Force One - [1997]
Strategic Command - [1997]
Con Air - [1997]
Airspeed - [1998]
Blackout Effect - [1998]
Turbulence - [1997]
Turbulence 2 - [1999]
Turbulence 3 - [2001]
Hijack’d - [2001]
Air Rage - [2001]
Air Panic - [2002]
Air Marshall - [2003]
Flightplan - [2005]
Snakes on a plane - [2006]
BONUS: Snakes on a train - [2006]
Mayday - [2005]
Red Eye - [2005]
Crash landing - [2006]
Flight 93 - [2006]
United 93 - [2006]
Altitude - [2010]
Turbulent skies - [2010]
Airline Disaster - [2010]
Air Collision - [2012]
Airborne - [2012]
The Assault - [2011]
Hijacked - [2012]
Non-stop - [2014]
Flight - [2012]
Sully - [2016]
Altitude - [2017]
The Captain [Chinese] -[2019]
7500 - [2020]
Flight 7500 - [2016]
Flight of the Living Dead - [2007]
Dark Flight - [2012]
Flight 666 - [2018]
Exorcism at 60000 feet - [2020]
Blood Red Sky - [2021]
Emergency Declaration - [2022]
That's a whopping 77 films & 1 TV episode. If there are any glaring omissions, please let me know and, if they are easy to track down, I'll add them too. I plan to watch the first one this week (not the earliest example of an airplane disaster movie, but one I believe will properly set the stage for what's to come).
Hope you'll grab a ticket and enjoy the ride too.
So I'm taking on a different kind of project starting this year. I really enjoy watching films with a theme and reviewing them, but without such a rigid schedule that my other yearlong pursuits have required. This then will be a thread of airplane movies, which I'll still probably review at least weekly, but I won't beat myself up if I skip a week or two here and there.
I started off just researching airplane disaster films, but soon discovered that the disaster genre overlaps fairly frequently with bomb plots and hijackings. So I included those too. Further research led me to a previously unknown sub-genre (to me) of airline horror (zombies and the supernatural), so those got thrown into the mix too. As far as I could gauge from Wikipedia and IMDB entries, I tried to limit myself to films where the bulk of the running time occurred on a plane; this meant axing plane crashes that were the trigger for survival-type films, such as 'Alive' or 'Flight of the Phoenix'. But it was more of a guideline than a rule, and I'm sure there are some on this list that I'll discover don't quite fit my original criteria.
Like my earlier threads, I have only seen one or two of these films with any certainty previously. As the months roll by, no doubt I'll be reminded why I never bothered to check some of these out before.
Here's my list - more or less in a chronological order, unless it seemed like some films should be grouped together:
Zero Hour! - [1957]
Terror in the sky - [1971]
Airplane! - [1980]
13 Hours by air - [1936]
No highway in the sky - [1951]
The High and the Mighty - [1954]
Jet over the Atlantic - [1959]
Jet Storm - [1959]
The Crowded Sky - [1960]
Twilight Zone: Nightmare at 20,000 feet [TV] [1963]
Airport - [1970]
Skyjacked - [1972]
This is a Hijack - [1973]
Horror at 37,000 feet - [1973]
Mayday at 40,000 feet - [1976]
Murder on Flight 502 - [1975]
Airport 1975
Airport ‘77
The Night they took Miss Beautiful - [1977]
SST: Death Flight - [1977]
The Ghost of Flight 401 - [1978]
Crash - [1978]
The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper - [1981]
Air Crew [Russian] - [1979]
Flight Crew [Russian, remake] - [2018]
Concorde: Airport 1979
Starflight One - [1983]
Airplane II - [1982]
The Taking of Flight 847 - [1988]
Fire and Rain - [1989]
Crash: The Mystery of Flight 1501 - [1990]
Miracle Landing - [1990]
A Thousand Heroes - [1992]
Passenger 57 - [1992]
Freefall - [1995]
Panic in the skies - [1996]
Hijacked - [1996]
Executive Decision - [1996]
Air Force One - [1997]
Strategic Command - [1997]
Con Air - [1997]
Airspeed - [1998]
Blackout Effect - [1998]
Turbulence - [1997]
Turbulence 2 - [1999]
Turbulence 3 - [2001]
Hijack’d - [2001]
Air Rage - [2001]
Air Panic - [2002]
Air Marshall - [2003]
Flightplan - [2005]
Snakes on a plane - [2006]
BONUS: Snakes on a train - [2006]
Mayday - [2005]
Red Eye - [2005]
Crash landing - [2006]
Flight 93 - [2006]
United 93 - [2006]
Altitude - [2010]
Turbulent skies - [2010]
Airline Disaster - [2010]
Air Collision - [2012]
Airborne - [2012]
The Assault - [2011]
Hijacked - [2012]
Non-stop - [2014]
Flight - [2012]
Sully - [2016]
Altitude - [2017]
The Captain [Chinese] -[2019]
7500 - [2020]
Flight 7500 - [2016]
Flight of the Living Dead - [2007]
Dark Flight - [2012]
Flight 666 - [2018]
Exorcism at 60000 feet - [2020]
Blood Red Sky - [2021]
Emergency Declaration - [2022]
That's a whopping 77 films & 1 TV episode. If there are any glaring omissions, please let me know and, if they are easy to track down, I'll add them too. I plan to watch the first one this week (not the earliest example of an airplane disaster movie, but one I believe will properly set the stage for what's to come).
Hope you'll grab a ticket and enjoy the ride too.