Disaster Movie

What happens when you ignore the advice of the expert? Nothing if you’re lucky. But what if they’re right, but it’s too late to do anything? These questions lie at the heart of Dante’s Peak which has recently turned 20. The film follows…

Watch enough disaster films and it becomes easy enough to spot the rules. The story will sketch the cast of disparate characters before anything dramatic happens. The disaster must be foreshadowed. The disaster can be either natural,…