It’s Meteor Watch Day, so here’s our gallery of 24 times meteors, asteroids, and comets have cosmically accosted our planet in the movies!
Armageddon
Michael Bay sends Bruce Willis and a bunch of drillers to dismantle an asteroid in space. Get it on Criterion Collection!
Deep Impact
The DreamWorks/Disney rivalry dates back to around these days, when this movie was released the same time as Armageddon.
Asteroid Michael Biehn and Annabella Sciorra await the end of the world after a government plan to stop an oncoming asteroid fails.
Judgement Day
Cult leader Mario Van Peebles kidnaps the only scientist who can stop an imminent asteroid from smashing into Earth. And the only one who can stop the bizarre plot: Ice-T!
Spider-Man 3
Sam Raimi’s third Spidey movie took a lot of liberties with the source and character, such as introducing the symbiote as a meteorite stowaway.
Plus One
A passing meteor seemingly creates duplicates of humans at a house party.
Coherence
Another passing meteor wreaks havoc in suburbia, this time hurling people at a dinner party through alternate realities.
Night of the Comet
Two Valley girls fend off zombies after a comet reduces most of the Earth’s population into piles of dust.
Slither
The extraterrestrial slugs that menace the local population in James Gunn’s horror-comedy arrive on Earth via meteorite.
Maximum Overdrive
Stephen King’s sole directorial effort is this coked-out tale of machines who come to life and want to murder their creators after a comet passes by the planet.
Evolution
David Duchovny, Orlando Jones, Seann William Scott, and Julianne Moore race to stop a rapidly evolving alien invasion that crash lands on the planet.
Dinosaur
A young dinosaur travels across the prehistoric landscape after a meteorite shower destroys his home.
Ice Age: Collision Course
The Tomatometer score cratered with the latest Ice Age movie, which sees Manny, Diego, and Sid wigging out from a threat above.
Melancholia
A shadow is cast literally over Kristen Dunst’s wedding, as a rogue planet hurtles towards Earth.
Meteor
Released during the twilight of the prestige disaster movies with overqualified actors, this one featuring Sean Connery.
The Day of the Triffids
A meteor shower renders most onlookers blind, and gives rise to carnivorous plants.
Your Name
An oncoming meteor is one of the central plot points in this critically acclaimed and record-breaking body-swapping anime.
The Meteor Man
A close encounter with a green meteorite gives Robert Townsend the super powers to clean up the streets of Washington D.C.
The Day the Sky Exploded
A cluster of meteors heads towards Earth in this Italian space feature.
The Monolith Monsters
Rock formations from a downed asteroid start spreading across the face of the planet.
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World Coherence actress Lorene Scafaria wrote and directed Steve Carell and Keira Knightley in this apocalyptic romantic comedy.
The Blob
Remake of the classic sci-fi horror, featuring ravenous Jell-O originally emerging from a meteor.
When Worlds Collide
Scientists scramble to put together a rocket ship to leave Earth, which faces obliteration from an oncoming asteroid and star.
Disaster Movie
Forgive us for re-introducing the names of Freidberg & Seltzer back into your brain, but this ‘comedy’ they dumped on the public does feature an asteroid landing on a Hannah Montana lookalike.
