DISASTERTHON! All-Day Marathon of Cataclysmic Classics

Event Date: 
Saturday, April 26, 2014 (All day)
Cost:
Included Items: 
Watch the World End. Six Times. Free.

Watch the best (and sometimes worst) B-movies ever to dish up catastrophe on a cinematic scale.

In celebration of the last weeks of Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950, disaster epics will be featured throughout the day and evening, culminating in a crowdsourced favorite determined by SurveyMonkey polling. 

There will be a number of contests, with prizes awarded from the Ring stage. Take home top honors for the best homemade, disaster-inspired hat or the most artfully composed justification for a flick’s inclusion in the pantheon of disaster film. Marathoners who watch all six flicks will receive a special prize for endurance. This is one event where no one will tell you to put away your phone—join us as we live-tweet throughout the day.

Admission is free, and seating will be first-come, first-served. Films may include adult content.

ABOUT THE VOTING
At hirshhorn.si.edu/DISASTERTHON, disaster movie fans can vote for the Most Epic Disaster Movie of All Time. Twenty-five titles are suggested, but disagreement is encouraged. Will the absurd comedy of Stanley Kubrick’s anti-war masterpiece “Dr. Strangelove” (1964) trump the ominous rumblings of the Sensurround-pioneering “Earthquake” (1974)? Can the relentlessly morphing villain of James Cameron’s “Terminator 2: Judgment Day” (1991) best the airborne terror that is “Sharknado” (2013)? Or will a dark horse emerge from a pack of write-ins? Find out when the winning film hits the screen at 10 p.m., closing out the marathon with a bang.