My 13 year old daughter was traumatized by this movie today

13 years old is too old to be scared by a movie. By that age people are normally smart enough to realize that movies does not mean reality.
If she got an emotional reaction - that is fine. if that reaction is not hurting her life (as what understand days after) then i suggest seeing a psychiatrist (the real one, not the one that solves every problem with prozac).

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wow if your 13 year old was traumatized by this movie, you must have really sheltered her as a kid. I first saw this when I was 11 and I enjoyed it

Honestly, if I wanted to show kids a film about Volcanoes, I would put on "Krakatoa: The Last Days". It is a far more scientifically accurate and dramatic film than Dante's Peak (which frankly tried to have the mountain do a bit too much.

"Aw Crap!" - Hellboy

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Wow, responding to a 10 year old post; I think that's a record for me.

Anyway, in 1962 when I was 12 I went to the movies by myself and watched a documentary called "Mein Kamph" (available on YouTube) which included a 15 (or so) segment on the Warsaw Ghetto. In one of the scenes, 3 children were caught trying to smuggle food into the ghetto but were caught. A young boy is emptying his clothes of potatoes and turnips; a guard is grabbing him and putting his boot into his stomach to speed him along. Meanwhile the narrator is saying, "one child said 'I wish I was a dog. The guards don't beat the dogs.'" Those words were burned into me; in 54 years I've never forgotten them or the look on the children's faces as they unloaded their burden.

I don't think anyone knows what scene or event is going to trigger a traumatic reaction in someone. I do hope she's long gotten over it.

I realize this post is 10 years old, but thought I would respond anyway. There is definitely nothing unusual about a 13-year-old being traumatized by this movie. I remember the movie freaked me out when I first saw it as a kid. Luckily I was born and raised in Michigan, and I still live here, so the fact that something like this would never happen in Michigan, perhaps made it a touch less scary for me than it might have been for your daughter. If I lived in a state that had known volcanoes, whether dormant or not, I probably would have been even more freaked out. It is a very intense, seemingly realistic, emotionally-charged, violent movie. It is also very well-done, and what I would classify as a "good" movie. Despite this, I avoided watching it for years because it did upset me seeing it as a kid. I am now a 27-year-old woman, and I still feel on the edge of my seat when I watch it, even though I've seen it several times since I was a kid.

All parents should read up on movies at commonsense.org before letting the kiddos watch them. The site rates all the potentially upsetting and age inappropriate factors. Also it has reviews posted by parents and kids who’ve seen the film.

she is 32 years old now........ how is she doing?