When the original "Twister" movie debuted in 1996 ... exactly where and when a storm will form is an ongoing area of research. Scientists have a better grasp of how tornadoes work The big ...

The original Twister is a tornado disaster movie directed by Jan de Bont and ... a group of storm chasers who try to install a tornado research device during an outbreak of tornadoes in Oklahoma.

“During my research, I learned about the role of these popular movies in the origin stories ... The culture already existed before the film, but ‘Twister’ changed the way people thought ...

The tornadoes look fantastic, especially for a movie that came out in the mid-1990s, with the final storm being the film’s most exciting moment. Twister went on to become the second-highest ...