On Victoria Day 1996, the Can-View 4 drive-in complex in Thorold, Ontario, Canada showed "Twister" a few weeks after the film's opening. There were ominous-looking clouds in the sky, but nothing that could have ever prepared the audience for what was about to come. The wind picked up, the rain began pouring over all of the cars, and just as Helen Hunt's face graced the screen — a real tornado plowed through the complex and obliterated the screen. Audience members who were children at the time recall hiding under seats for safety, adults love to tell their "I Was There" story, and given the metatextual nature of the film — as "Twister" includes a scene where a tornado tears through a drive-in screening of "The Shining" — the story made headlines across the globe.

And it's totally plausible. I first saw "Twister" at the drive-in near my hometown in the middle of a thunderstorm...