Product Description

Dr. Janet Fraser and her husband Kevin are scoping out exciting tours for their clients back home and have brought along Janet's daughter Melanie. They meet with Patrick who takes them to Mount Extreme despite a warning from a native Maori elder not to go to the mountain. Once there Janet discovers a scientific facility with evidence that the mountain is becoming more active. That night Melanie and a new friend Jason get lost on a hike. Janet's growing concerns about the mountain results in an evacuation plan. Meanwhile Kevin finds and rescues Melanie and Jason from a cave as they wait for a helicopter to save the trio all before the mountain explodes.System Requirements:Running Tie: 96 MinutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE Rating: NR UPC: 796019794558 Manufacturer No: 79455

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #69138 in DVD
• Brand: RYKODISC
• Released on: 2006-08-15
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Running time: 96 minutes

Features

• Dr. Janet Fraser and her husband Kevin are scoping out exciting tours for their clients back home and have brought along Janet's daughter, Melanie. They meet with Patrick who takes them to Mount Extreme despite a warning from a native Maori elder not to go to the mountain. Once there, Janet discovers a scientific facility with evidence that the mountain is becoming more active. That night, Mel

Customer Reviews

It Became the Holiday from Hell!
Volcanic scientist Janet Fraser (Lynda Carter) and her new husband Kevin (Parker Stevenson) are off to New Zealand for their honeymoon. Along for the ride is Janet's daughter Melanie (Emily Barclay) whose approval for their new marriage Janet and Kevin are struggling to gain. Kevin is a travel agent who is looking for exciting new prospects for his clients, and when he hears of an adventure camp at the base of a long dormant volcano at the north end of the island called Mount Extreme, he takes his family there to try it out. Patrick, the owner of the camp, explains that the original natives of New Zealand, the Maori, still claim the land that the camp is on, and warn that the mountain, which in their ancient tongue is called Momatenamantico, or "Terror Peak", is a danger to all. When Janet, whose first husband was the victim of an earlier deadly eruption she ignored in the Phillippines, sees that the danger is real, she tries to get the camp evacuated and warn the neighboring towns, but is ignored by all. But when the volcano erupts, trapping her daughter Emily and a local guide Jason (Anthony Starr) in one of the volcano's caves, Kevin personally tries to save them while Janet organizes a larger hair-raising rescue attempt by helicopter.

This is a good family-orientated film that is exciting as well as shot in one of the most beautiful islands in the South Pacific. Lynda Carter, Parker Stevenson, and Emily Barclay do a fine job of acting in coming to grips with their personal demons including guilt, personal illness and jealousy to try to save their family and others whilst caught in one of the most terrifying kinds of natural disasters. There is also the aspect of the Maori culture, not well known in many parts of the world, that tries to show the respect due to the earth, and how the earth can sometimes threaten its'inhabitants.

Weak and disheveled
I am a disaster movie buff, and for a good disaster, I can forgive a lot. But Terror Peak doesn't make the cut, by a wide margin. The story is disheveled, with very little glimpse of good volcano activity, and too much running around scared and "human concern". There is only one really good scene, where three people are darting among small ground explosions caused by gaz bursts, trying to get to safety. The whole part of Melanie and the guide stuck in a cave, running up and down for an exit, with vapor and fumes amok, is laughably contrived, and drags on for much too long. See Dante's Peak for a much better volcano pic.

It's Got Lynda Carter in it!
It's Got Lynda Carter in it! OK, OK, I am a huge Lynda Carter fan and anything with her in it will get my attention, if not me buying a copy of it! A bit predictable but... It's Got Lynda Carter in it! }:o)