History Film / FireTwister

In Los Angeles, a group of ecologists, consisting of ex-firefighter Scott (Van Dien), climate specialist Carla (Ciara) and additional members Jason (Hawkes) and Barbie (Bateman), are faced with the explosion of a CIA bomb in a storage tank on which they were going to place an anti-oil advertisement. When they're framed for the explosion, they must find a way to stop the twister and prove their innocence while avoiding a CIA squad that's prosecuting them. They're helped along by Anthony (Clarke), an engineer of Synco, the company which the tank belonged to.

''Fire Twister'' is a 2015 low-budget film directed by George Erschbarmer, produced and distributed by [=CineTel=] Films, and starring Creator/CasperVanDien, Lisa Ciara, Johnny Hawkes, Leah Bateman, Jon Mack and Jeff Clarke. It was written by Larry Bain, with soundtrack composition by David Findlay and production and editing from Kirk Shaw, Stan Spry, Eric Scott Woods and Kristina Hamilton-Grobler.

* DeathOfAChild: A notable subverted example for the disaster genre. While most disaster films have a habit of including at least one onscreen child death, this one only has a little girl making it alive from the twister without any serious injury, and Scott goes to bring her mother down from a tree she got thrown into.

* GenreMashup: The film is an action/adventure/disaster feature, with additional elements of science fiction.

In Los Angeles, a group of ecologists, consisting of ex-firefighter Scott (Van Dien), climate specialist Carla (Ciara) and additional members Jason (Hawkes) and Barbie (Bateman), are faced with the explosion of a CIA bomb in a storage tank on which they were going to place an anti-oil advertisement. When they're framed for the explosion, they must find a way to stop the twister and prove their innocence while avoiding a CIA squad that's prosecuting them. They're helped along by Anthony (Clarke), an engineer of Synco, the company from which the tank belonged.

* NoFullNameGiven: Most of the named characters are only referred to by their first name (Scott, Carla, etc.). The only one to have a surname is Mitch Garber[[note]]Even still, his surname is only said within the movie. The ending credits don't cite it at all.[[/note]]. Meanwhile, V is known only by her codename.

* DoNotTouchTheFunnelCloud: Although it's clearly a severe kind of tornado (or firenado, more specifically), since it left a lot of destruction in Los Angeles, the fire twister doesn't cause much effect beyond the range of things near it, aside from its attraction to heat.

* DoNotTouchTheFunnelCloud: Although it's clearly a severe kind of tornado (or firenado, more specifically), since it left a lot of destruction in Los Angeles, the fire twister doesn't cause much effect beyond the range of things near it, asides from its attraction to heat.

* ExtremelyShortTimespan: The film's plot takes place over the course of a single day, which is relatively fast in comparison to the progress that the fire twister makes in growth and destruction (as in the case of real-life fire twisters).

* MinionWithAnFInEvil: [[spoiler:Garber's assistant, while involved in the file destruction with the other Synco employees, is visibly shocked by his EvilPlan to provoke a fire twister. He helps a reporter to get some evidence to prove Garber's intentions, though Garber ends up finding her and killing her.]]

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: [[spoiler:Garber, although he isn't necessarily a BadBoss. As if his role as BigBad wasn't enough, it's heavily implied by Scott and Anthony's realization that Garber comes from a rival company that wanted to sabotage Synco.]]

* BigBad: Unlike most disaster movies, which usually have NoAntagonist, this one has a big bad. [[spoiler:That character in question is Garber, who was responsible for making a deal with the CIA to put the bomb on the storage tank that produced the twister, and paid Jason for the advertisement at the storage tank so that the four ecologists could get framed for it. He even intended the fire twister disaster in the first place.]]

* SinisterSpyAgency: Among the villains are a squad of CIA agents, led by V, who are chasing the heroes after [[spoiler:the BigBad made a contract with the agency]] to plant a bomb in the storage tank that created the fire twister.

* CIAEvilFBIGood: Among the villains are a squad of CIA agents, led by V, who are chasing the heroes after [[spoiler:the BigBad made a contract with the agency]] to plant a bomb in the storage tank that created the fire twister.

* QuirkyMinibossSquad: The CIA agent squad serve this role to [[spoiler:Garber]] as his contractees.

* QuirkyMinibossSquad: Among the villains are a squad of CIA agents, led by V, who are chasing the heroes after [[spoiler:the BigBad made a contract with the agency]] to plant a bomb in the storage tank that created the fire twister.

* QuirkyMinibossSquad[=/=]CIAEvilFBIGood: Among the villains are a squad of CIA agents, led by V, who are chasing the heroes after [[spoiler:the BigBad made a contract with the agency]] to plant a bomb in the storage tank that created the fire twister.

* WorldLimitedToThePlot: There's no mention of state-wide, national and international reception on the fire twister's destruction in Los Angeles at all.

* QuirkyMinibossSquad / CIAEvilFBIGood: Among the villains are a squad of CIA agents, led by V, who are chasing the heroes after [[spoiler:the BigBad made a contract with the agency]] to plant a bomb in the storage tank that created the fire twister.

* TheOneGuy[=/=]FinalBoy: [[spoiler:Scott]] remains the only male person in the hero group after [[spoiler:Jason and Anthony die]].