So any rain that can bring about zombies has to make the list.
This again causes the gas to go into the atmosphere and now the rainstorms are happening all over the country. In the end, our heroes contact the army only to get blown up by a nuclear missile. The result is that all the bodies in the neighboring cemetery come to life and now need to eat brains to make the pain go away. This just causes all the poisonous gas to be released into the atmosphere, which causes an awesome acid rain storm. So when a dead medical cadaver and the half dogs for veterinary school come to life, they are forced to burn them in an incinerator. This gas, when released, causes the dead to rise.
After two bumbling warehouse workers (portrayed by James Karen and Thom Mathews) accidentally set free a poisonous gas from a secret lost army canister, all hell breaks loose. In this Dan O’Bannon classic, rain plays a prominent role not once but twice. on snow shoes that look like tennis rackets to find his son he has lost touch with. It gets caught up in some environmental message while the new Ice Age ascends rapidly (didn’t the first one take over a century to happen, not a day?), Jake Gyllenhaal tries to remind us why we need to pay attention in science class, and Dennis Quaid walks from Washington D.C. The special effects were great and who doesn’t want to see an oil tanker float up 5th Avenue? Once the rain stops, so does the movie unfortunately. The rude New Yorkers meet their demise and the smart school kids live. As far as the movie goes, this was the one scene that was the most enjoyable. I am constantly looking over my shoulder as I walk up 7th Avenue for a giant wall of water to come crashing down on me. This may not be the greatest movie ever made, but the NYC rain scenes have been pretty dead-on as of late. Hope you enjoy it and I hope it stops raining here. Here is my top ten rain scenes of all time. So while I have been trapped inside, it got me thinking of great rain scenes from movies. The sun has been gone for so long now that the Cullen family from “Twilight” could have taken a summer vacation here with no worries. It has rained 21 out of 25 days here in the month of June alone. Our summer has been held hostage by constant rain. That is not the case here in New York City.
Since we are in the thick of the summer movie season you would think that gorgeous summer weather would follow.
If you have a Top 10 you’d like to contribute, email me at Here’s Sean: This list comes to us from Sean O’Connell, a New York City-based writer who also contributed a Top 10 Movie Brothers list some time back.