“ It's inexcusable that I haven't written a review about Dante's Peak, so forgive me. Needless to say, it's about a volcano about to shit the bed and Sarah Connor running a coffee …”
Dante's Peak is a disaster film that portrays the effects of a massive volcanic eruption on a fictitious small town in the Pacific Northwest. Released February 1997, several months before Volcano, the film won praise in the scientific community for scientific accuracy. Dante's Peak was written by Leslie Bohem and directed by Roger Donaldson, and grossed over $178 million worldwide, despite having been a domestic box office failure and receiving negative reviews.