In the third act of “Twisters,” another storm brings about a tornado amidst a record number of outbreaks in Oklahoma. This is the one where our heroes Kate (Daisy Edgar-Jones) and Tyler (Glen Powell) will be testing out their recently (hopefully) perfected experiment where they try to disrupt the dynamics of a tornado in an effort to make it collapse and dissipate. But of course, with that storm comes real danger when it veers towards the rural town of El Reno, Oklahoma. 

El Reno, Oklahoma is a real town too, and it previously appeared on the big screen in the Best Picture winner “Rain Man,” as one of the locations Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman made on their cross-country road trip. It’s here that the tornado threatens a bunch of citizens trying to enjoy a nice summer day at the farmer’s market, while others are taking in a monster movie marathon in one of those classic brick building movie theaters with a vintage marquee out front. As people try to find shelter, we catch a glimpse of the horror movie that’s playing on the big screen, and it’s “Frankenstein,” one of the earliest pieces of the Universal Monsters franchise that includes “Dracula,” “The Mummy,” “The Wolf Man,” The Creature from the Black Lagoon” and more. Much like the similar moment from “Twister,” the tornado makes its most devastating blow at the perfect moment. 

During this sequence, it’s clear the theater is not exactly the safest place to be in the storm. It’s a very old building that doesn’t have a basement for storm safety, and before the massive tornado is right on top of them, chunks of the ceiling are already falling around them. As the tornado gets even closer, it slowly tears at the wall behind the theater screen, and once it’s ripped away enough, the entire wall collapses and the screen is sucked into the air.