Twister is a 1996 American disaster-adventure-horror-far from romantic film starring Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton as "storm chasers" researching tornadoes and terrorizing country bumpkins. To play on the poor and insecure nature of country hicks in the United States of Americas, a wealthy director by the name of Moneybags McClure (or Jan De Bont) decided to make a movie about tornadoes, twisters and the Bumpkin Way of Life, in which country hicks are constantly under fire from twisters, so the movie was an instant success; critics called Twister's documentation of the lovely nature of twisters correct and strangely erotic: