"Disaster porn" refers to a type of media, like movies or images, that sensationalizes and exploits real-life tragedies or disasters to entertain or shock people. Full definition
It might be over or under - stuffed without enough interesting ideas and be purely aimed for the mainstream hungry for disaster porn. (awardscircuit.com)
Emmerich is at it again, but instead of disaster porn, he refreshingly gives us the Die Hard clone we were so desperately desiring in Olympus Has Fallen — unlike that film's dour seriousness, and Butler's glower, here we get an almost goofy film wherein Channing Tatum and Jamie Foxx play buddy - cop through the elevator shafts and abandoned rooms of the White House. (alcohollywood.com)
The planned point of Knowing, it seems, is twofold: To allow Proyas a few deeply disturbing opportunities to indulge in disaster porn; man, does he love him some planes exploding and people — and animals! (flickfilosopher.com)