My 13 year old daughter was traumatized by this movie today

I saw this movie when I was 11 and loved it! Im sure a lot of other children thought it was scary but I really liked movies like Dante's Peak and Twister. I saw another post saying to sit your daughter down and do research on volcanoes and remind her DP is just a movie and natural disasters can really happen, this WAS a movie and that usually volcanoes dont just erupt people know when they are going to for the most part.

im sorry but she may be immature or something but it was not scary AT ALL!!! I'm 14 i just watched it in my geography class and theres nothing too it. She could be grossed out because there is a few gory scenes but not scary at all really.

every child aroudn that age will have an issue with something or other. when i was that age i had a really bad fear of tornados, so much so that just rain would freak me out. i saw this movie in grade 9 geography, and we all thought it was so stupid that we jsut spent the whole movie making fun of the garbage acting, and how unrealistic the scenes depicted actually are. i have no clue why they would even bother showing this movie, they usually show it to "show signs that a volcano is going to erupt and what happens afterwards" (yes i am looking through my grade 9 geography notebook) and it's just stupid, particuallary during hte ending of the movie how unrealistic it is. volcanic eruptions of that size simply DO NOT happen without someone knowing about it ahead of time. the director has no basis of reality in this movie. the bottom line is it is FICTION. just tell your daughter that. and liek another user already mentioned research what really happens during an eruption. i find research about something your afraid of will usually get rid of that fear

Hey, cami, why don't you let your daughter watch se7en instead?

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I was four and a half when i first saw it, and i was sobbing in my father's arms for most of the movie. I haven't seen it since then, but I can definitely see how she would be traumatized... I was terrified.

Well, I just have to add my thoughts on this subject. I saw this movie when I was about 10. It freaked the crap out of me, partially because of the volcano/imminent death thing, and partially because I live not far from Wallace, ID, so I saw I town that I knew, where I had BEEN, be destroyed. It's kinda freaky.

Yes avtually I am. I am 14 years old, and I am actually watching this in My science class. This movie is not new to me at all. My mom and I love those natural disaster movies, like Tornado, Dante's Peak, Day After Tomoorow, ect.

Now I have been watching this movie since I was 5 years old. I mean yeah, it has some pretty starterling parts. But none the less Dante's Peak is not a real Volcanoe, but the events that happen in the movie are as real as anything. In the begining of the movie Pierce Brosnan (spelling?) is studying a volcaneo that erupts in Columbia. This is an actual real event that happened in 1992.

What you need to tell your daughter is that Volconoes are an amzing force that we should respect, but at the same time stand at awe with their power and beauty. Volconoes happen mostly around Fault Lines. In the movie they say that they are in the Cascade Mountain Range. This is only miles from the Pacific/North American Tectonic plates.
Depending on where you live, you shoukd't worry. Now their are stange Volanoes that ten to suddenly pop up for no reason. Like Hawaii, but this seldom happens. And where you live it might not.

Now, the Volcanoe in the movie was a sheild cone, or Stratavolcanoe. This means that it has that classical cone shape. But these volcanoes have really thick lava, so you almost never see lava come from a Stratavolcanoe. But, these volcanoes can have very violant eruptions. They shoot gas and ash 15 miles into the air. They also have Pyroclastic Flow, which is a cload of gas and red hot ash spewing down the mountain side at sometimes 60-100 miles an hour, flattening and burning anything in it's path. These can be the most devastating.
The Volcanoes in Hawaii for example are known as sheild cones. They have very oily and runny lava. These don't have as voilant as eruptions. They can be pretty damaging but most people have a better chance of getting away. But there is no way to stop the lava. Even if you cooled it with water, it would keep coming.

I can't tell you that she should't worry. Volcanoes are a fact of life, and the fact is people do die in catastrophes such as this, where there is no way people can be warned. Tornados, you have a chance, if you can see it in the cloads and on the ground you know to leave. Volcanoes can be sudden and lethal. There are very little ways you can tell a Volcanoe will erupt. So when it erupts, it erupts. Just run as fast as you can. Me, I would't run, I would see no point in it. If it was the violant ones I told you about where it shoots ash 15 miles into the air, I would't run. There would be no where to run. But thats me, I would suggest that you would run.

Okay, i hope I didn't scare you too bad. I am sorry for the mispellings. I am uasually a lot more neat, but I have some where to go. Goodbye.