Twister is a 1989 American comedy film directed by Michael Almereyda[2] and starring Suzy Amis, Crispin Glover, Harry Dean Stanton, and Dylan McDermott.

Based on Mary Robison's 1981 novel Oh!,[1] the film relates the story of the eccentric Cleveland family during the event of a tornado's hitting their rural Kansas home.

Eugene, exasperated with Howdy's high-brow attitude and Maureen's sullen listlessness, spends his time drinking and courting Virginia, a local host of a Christian children's TV program.

[He] went around killing horses for a while, until he ate the insides of a clock and he died" (a line originally found in John Millington Synge's 1907 play Playboy of the Western World).

Dave Kehr wrote in the Chicago Tribune that the film was "worth a look for the unexpected delicacy of its execution and the all-cult quality of its casting" and noted that "Almereyda creates a kind of low-key, unemphatic weirdness that gets its laughs but still leaves room for moments of surprising emotional authenticity.