Horror Facts
Earth Day is this April 22nd and if you’re in the mood to watch the world end from the safety of your own home, then Crackle has you covered.
Whether you’re interested in big visual effects, drama, suspense, or sci-fi action, Crackle has an Earth-threatening scenario for you. Take your pick from their collection and hunker down for an exciting end-of-the-world adventure.
Below is a list of all the disaster feature films currently available on Crackle this Earth Day, including the Crackle exclusive feature film Inferno: Skyscraper Escape.
Inferno: Skyscraper Escape (Crackle Exclusive Feature)
Synopsis: Disaster strikes a downtown skyscraper when a gas leak causes a ferocious explosion setting ablaze the towering mass of metal and glass.
Cast: Claire Forlani (Hawaii Five-O), Jamie Bamber (Battlestar Galactica)
2012: Supernova
Synopsis: A scientist, races against a deadline to place a shield between the Earth and the oncoming blast-wave from a Supernova. As well as the efforts of doom cult to sabotage the project believing it to be God’s Will Course” and allow the population of the Earth to be consumed by the intense radiation in the wave.
Cast: Brian Krause (Charmed), Heather McComb (Prison Break)
Apocalypse Pompeii
Synopsis: Mount Vesuvius erupts when a family visits Pompeii. The daughter uses her skill and her father his ability, in order to escape the disaster.
Cast: Adrian Paul (Arrow), Georgina Beedle (Catherine the Great)
Artic Apocalypse
Synopsis: A massive influx of glacial melting triggers a new ice age in the Northern Hemisphere, forcing a family to make their way across the ice-covered landscape before they are frozen out for good.
Cast: Joel Berti (Days of Our Lives), Jennifer Lee Wiggins (The Young and the Restless)
Countdown: Armageddon
Synopsis: A journalist searches for her daughter as a series of catastrophic disasters push a destabilized society toward the brink of global war.
Cast: Kim Little (Z Nation), Clint Browning (Mega Piranha)
Geo-Disaster
Synopsis: A family in Los Angeles finds themselves separated during a convergence of history’s greatest disasters: a super-volcano, a mega-earthquake and a massive twister. While the world endures this near-apocalyptic event, our heroes must persevere on their own skills and wit to reunite and survive.
Cast: Matthew Pohlkamp (Fantasy Island), Natalie Pelletier (Chicago Med)
San Andreas Mega Quake
Synopsis: Scientists discover the “Big One” is coming soon, and with it everything west of the San Andreas Fault will sink into the ocean. The scientists try to stop the quake, but as foreshocks turn California into chaos, it’s a race against time.
Cast: Joseph Michael Harris (War of the Worlds: Annihilation), Christie Nicholls (Tabloid)
The Apocalypse
Synopsis: In this epic disaster film of faith, a mother and father search for their only child as a giant asteroid headed for Earth triggers a series of apocalyptic events.
Cast: Rhett Giles (Nip/Tuck), Jill Stapley (Murder on the Yellow Brick Road)
Airplane Vs. Volcano
Synopsis: When a commercial airliner is trapped within a ring of erupting volcanoes, the passengers and crew must find a way to survive – without landing.
Cast: Dean Cain (Lois & Clark), Robin Givens (Boomerang)
Volcano: Fire on the Mountain
Synopsis: A USGS scientist attempts to convince his boss and the residents of Angel Falls, California that a nearby volcano is about to erupt.
Cast: Dan Cortese (Veronica’s Closet), Cynthia Gibb (Fame)
The Quake
Synopsis: In 1904 an earthquake of magnitude 5.4 on the Richter scale shook Oslo, with an epicenter in the “Oslo Graben” which runs under the Norwegian capital. There are now signs that indicate that we can expect a major future earthquake in Oslo.
Cast: Kristoffer Joner (The Revenant), Ane Dahl Torp (The Wave)
Age of Ice
Synopsis: Massive earthquakes open the Arabian tectonic plate, resulting in freezing temperatures that will be fatal by nightfall. Attempting to reach safety, a vacationing family in Egypt must battle the subzero climate that ushers in a new Ice Age.
Cast: Barton Bund (A Man Called Otto), Bailey Spry (It Follows)
2012: Ice Age
Synopsis: A volcanic eruption in Iceland sends a glacier towards North America, causing everything in it’s path to freeze. A family man struggles to escape the onslaught of the coming ice age.
Cast: Patrick Labyorteaux (JAG), Julie McCullough (Sharknado)
Flood: A River’s Rampage
Synopsis: The residents of a midwestern city must struggle to save their lives, families and their property when a disastrous flood strikes.
Cast: Richard Thomas (The Waltons), Kate Vernon (Malcolm X)
Tidal Wave: No Escape
Synopsis: When brutal tidal waves suddenly destroy many coastal communities in a short period of time, John Wahl, a nobel prize winner, is brought out of his lazy retirement and back into service as a consultant.
Cast: Corbin Bernsen (L.A. Law), Julianne Phillips (Sisters)
Skyfire
Synopsis: Tianhuo Island is as beautiful as a paradise. It almost makes people forget that it is located in the “Ring of Fire” the world-famous Pacific Rim volcanic belt. The volcano erupted, and the fate of the people in the island was entangled.
Cast: Jason Isaacs (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets), Hannah Quinlivan (Assassins)
These Final Hours
Synopsis: A self-obsessed young man makes his way to the party-to-end-all-parties on the last day on Earth, but ends up saving the life of a little girl searching for her father. Their relationship ultimately leads him on the path to redemption.
Cast: Jessica De Gouw (The Crown), Nathan Phillips (Snakes on a Plane)
San Andreas Quake
Synopsis: An L.A. Seismologist warns of an impending 10.0 earthquake that will kill millions and bring Los Angeles to its knees. With only her daughter’s boyfriend realizing the danger they face, the two desperately race across town to get her husband and daughter to safety before the big one hits.
Cast: Grace Van Dien (Stranger Things), Jason Woods (NCIS)
500 MPH Storms
Synopsis: When an energy experiment goes haywire, a rash of massive hurricanes rips across North America. A high school science teacher must get his family to safety before the hurricanes merge, creating a “hypercane” with the power to wipe the US off the map.
Cast: Casper Van Dien (Salvage Marines), Sarah Lieving (Super Shark)
End of the World
Synopsis: As mass of solar storms causes tsunamis, volcanoes, and flooding, a city-dwelling family attempts to flee to the relative safety of a group of high-elevation caves several miles away.
Cast: Zhey Castles (San Andreas Quake), Evan James Henderson (Westworld)
Oceans Rising
Synopsis: As mass of solar storms causes tsunamis, volcanoes, and flooding, a city-dwelling family attempts to flee to the relative safety of a group of high-elevation caves several miles away.
Cast: Jason Tobias (Dead to Me), Summer Spiro (Westworld)
Age of Tomorrow
Synopsis: When the sun strikes an alter, hidden within the ancient Pyramid of the Sun in Mexico, it creates a beacon that triggers an alien blitzkrieg. Within hours, their ships destroy all the military infrastructure on earth. One anthropologist knows how to repel the invaders.
Cast: Kelly Hu (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), Anthony Marks (The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)
100 Seconds to Midnight: Doomsday Clock
Synopsis: Intended to warn the public and inspire action, The Doomsday Clock ticks to show how close humans are to destroying the world with man-made technologies.
Cast: Razor Keeves (An Artificial Reality), Charles Washington (Alien Contact)
Fire From Below
Synopsis: Seeking a powerful alternative energy source, wealthy industrialist Taylor Drake carelessly unearths a vein of pure, base lithium. When the toxic lithium reaches the earth’s surface and combines with water, it sets off a deadly series of events that sends the military on a mission deep below the earth’s surface to reseal the vein before it kills millions.
Cast: Kevin Sorbo (Hercules: The Legendary Journeys), Gigi Erneta (Veep)
100 Below Zero
Synopsis: When a chain of volcanic eruptions rips through Europe, the enormous ash cloud blocks out the sun, plunging the continent into a new ice age. An American couple must find their kids and get them out of Paris before it freezes over.
Cast: Jeff Fahey (Lost), Sara Malakul Lane (King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table)
Asteroid Vs. Earth
Synopsis: When a shower of massive meteors threatens an extinction level on Earth, the world’s greatest minds devise a dangerous plan that will take the planet off its axis in order to avoid the impact.
Cast: Tia Carrere (Wayne’s World), Robert Davi (Die Hard)
Icetastrophie
Synopsis: A piece of a meteor strikes the center of a small mountain town and causes deadly freezing temperatures in this disaster flick.
Cast: Victor Webster (Melrose Place), Jennifer Spence (Family Law)
Megafault
Synopsis: A seismologist and a miner must stop a massive earthquake that threatens to tear the world in half.
Cast: Brittany Murphy (Clueless), Eriq La Salle (ER)
Meteor Apocalypse
Synopsis: A gigantic meteors enters Earth’s orbit and begins to disintegrate, showering the entire planet with debris.
Cast: Joe Lando (Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman), Claudia Christian (Babylonb 5)
Super Cyclone
Synopsis: When a super cyclone threatens the entire American eastern seaboard, a lone meteorologist and a petroleum engineer must battle the elements to stop the threat.
Cast: Ming-Na Wen (Street Fighter), Nicholas Turturro (NYPD Blue)
And if a feature film isn’t enough, Crackle also has disaster-themed limited series to binge.
Category 7: The End of the World (Limited Series)
Synopsis: The effects of global warming reach terrifying proportions as a superstorm descends upon the planet.
Cast: Cameron Daddo (Home and Away), Gina Gershon (Bound)
10.5 Apocalypse (Limited Series)
Synopsis: In this hair-raising miniseries event, escalating series of aftershocks, quakes, volcanoes, sinkholes, explosions, floods, and weather anomalies threatens to turn the landscape into a wasteland. But seismologist Samantha Hill sees the greatest threat of all: an ever-widening fault line heading straight for the country’s two largest nuclear reactors.
Cast: Kim Delaney (NYPD Blue), Garcelle Beauvais (Spiderman: Homecoming)
Aftershock: Earthquake in New York (Limited Series)
Synopsis: When an earthquake rips through New York City, skyscrapers topple, the Statue of Liberty falls, concrete crumbles and the lives of four families are forever changed. Based on the novel by Chuck Scarborough.
Cast: Tom Skerritt (Alien), Jennifer Garner (Alias)
Ring of Fire (Limited Series)
Synopsis: When an oil rig causes a volcanic eruption in a small town, it’s not just an isolated event—as environmental activist Emily Booth and former oil company analyst Matthew Cooper fear. It’s just the first in a series that could effect the dangerous Ring of Fire that contains most of the world’s volcanos. Before the earth is swallowed whole by a cataclysmic series of eruptions, only Matthew knows how to stop it. It’s a suicide mission, but the only alternative is an Extinction Level Event. The end of the world.
Cast: Terry O’Quinn (Lost), Michael Vartan (Alias)
Meteor (Limited Series)
Synopsis: As a giant meteor threatens to destroy the earth, it’s up to a brilliant scientist to save the day.
Cast: Billy Campbell (The Rocketeer), Marla Sokoloff (Dude, Where’s My Car?)
Killer Wave (Limited Series)
Synopsis: After massive tidal waves strike the East Coast, a team of scientists confers to discover the reason behind the devastating phenomenon. Among them is nuclear arms expert John McAdams and scientist Sophie Marleau who believe that the cataclysms are terrorist-triggered undersea missiles.
Cast: Angus MacFadyen (Braveheart), Karine Vanasse (God Friended Me)
Supernova (Limited Series)
Synopsis: An astrophysicist has made a cataclysmic discovery: The sun is set to explode. A team of fellow scientists race against time to stop his predictions of apocalypse from coming true.
Cast: Luke Perry (Beverly Hills 90210), Tia Carrere (Wayne’s World)
Eve of Destruction (Limited Series)
Synopsis: Scientists unlock a new way to harvest the limitless power of “dark energy” using a tool called the “Proteus Accelerator.” When an experiment incinerates an entire city, only a select few can convince the Proteus team that their effort to save the world actually threatens to destroy it.
Cast: Steven Weber (Wings), Christina Cox (Elysium)
Exploding Sun (Limited Series)
Synopsis: The world watches in awe as the Roebling Clipper is launched, making history as the first-ever commercial space flight. When a solar storm hyper-charges the engine and sends it hurtling toward the Sun, it triggers a cataclysmic solar storm that could blow Earth back into the Stone Age. For those on board, including the First Lady, and those at Mission Control, preparing for the inevitable seems the last—and only—terrifying option.
Cast: David James Elliott (JAG), Anthony Lemke (White House Down)
Robert Ludlum’s The Apocalypse (Limited Series)
Synopsis: Traces the rise of a powerful neo-fascist movement called the Fourth Reich, that plans to poison the water supplies of London, Paris and Washington.
Cast: Patrick Bergin (Patriot Games), Virginia Madsen (Sideways)
So on this Earth Day, don’t forget to take a break from reality and enjoy watching the end of the world from the comfort of your couch. Crackle’s selection of disaster epics and doomsday dramas make envisioning the apocalypse entertaining and fun. Happy viewing and remember to appreciate Planet Earth – while it’s still here!
