Product Details

• Actors: Costas Mandylor, Alexandra Paul, Michael Ironside, Michael Boisvert, Eric Breker
• Directors: Robert Lee
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: November 7, 2006
• Run Time: 92 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000HXDWHS
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #115,713 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Disaster Zone: Volcano in New York" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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DISASTER ZONE: VOLCANO IN NEW YORK

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23 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars LAVA IS A MANY SPLENDORED THING, November 9, 2006

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Michael Butts (Berkeley Springs, WV USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Disaster Zone: Volcano in New York (DVD)

Yep, that's right...a volcanic eruption in NYC is the premise for this hokey but mildly diverting disaster flick. Seems like nasty doctor Michael Ironside is trying to develop a source of geothermal energy and doing so he starts a volcanic rift under the Big Apple. Dedicated tunnel worker Costas Mandylor is the first to discover the lava flow but of course no one believes him. Enter Alexandra Paul as his geologist ex-wife who is called in to find out what's going on. The FBI is certain it's the work of terrorists, while a high city official is secretly funding Ironside's experiment.
The movie is nowhere as intense as the earlier VOLCANO, as it's pending doom never seems large scale enough for a good disaster movie, and the effects aren't that impressive.
Diverting entertainment for fans of the genre.

20 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars THAT ONE STAR REALLY MEANS NEGATIVE 1, December 27, 2006

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streets is watching "critic in the making" (brooklyn,newyork) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Disaster Zone: Volcano in New York (DVD)

JESUS HELP ME! THIS MOVIE WAS SO CORNY, I SHOULD FIND THE DIRECTOR AND PUT HIM IN JAIL! WHAT MAKES THIS MOVIE SO EWW, THEY DIDN'T EVEN FILM THE MOVIE IN NEW YORK! ALL THEY DID WAS SHOW A LITTLE BIT OF FOOTAGE OF A EVERYDAY NEW YORK STREET, THEN IT WILL CUT OFF QUICKLY OF THE NEW YORK STREET AND HAVE THE CHARACTERS STANDING IN BUILDINGS! WHEN THEY DID SHOW THE VOLCANO ERUPTING IT SHOWED PEOPLE RUNNING AROUND IN A CITY THAT LOOKED LIKE BOSTON OR PHILLY! PLUS WHEN THEY SHOWED THE CHARACTERS STANDING OUT SIDE OF THIS NOT NEW YORK STREETS THEY HAD POLICE SIRENS GOING OFF IN THE BACK GROUND THE WHOLE TIME! TAKE IT FROM ME PEOPLE I LIVE IN BROOKLYN, YOU DON'T HEAR SIRENS LIKE THAT ALL DAY! PLEASE DO NOT BUY OR RENT THIS GARBAGE!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars It's sandhog time!, March 11, 2009

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Ahmed Daoud - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Disaster Zone: Volcano in New York (DVD)

Or that's what the cast is trying to tell us in this disaster movie. Volcano in New York is one of those B-movies with a catchy title that you - according to that - think you need to see. I did, and it didn't bring me the excitement I thought it would.

Let's start positive: Costas Mandylor and Michael Ironside are acting well, a thing that can't be said from, say, the movie Earthstorm. Alexandra Paul tries very hard but should not be worried yet where to put her Academy Award.

The special effects are not bad, even quite realistic, but you can't aspect astonishing explosions from a budget spent for movies like this.

What is more troublesome in Volcano in New York is the plotline: a geologist (Ironside) tries to excerpt geothermal energy from the inner core of the earth. Unfortunately his drillings have dug up lavastreams. The first to discover this is a team of sandhogs, tunnelworkers in New York. So far for credibility, as soon as the sandhog leader (Mandylor) reports this to the community-council he is not believed, because some sort of civil servant finances Ironsides project. When some lava erupts, the FBI thinks terrorists are attacking NYC. Come on guys?! After those eruptions the Feds must have seen SOME lava, so no one in his right mind would think of attacks. Nope, not here, just tunnelvision (tunnels...hmmm). Well if the FBI is really so narrowminded then the USA should be warned!

Another thing: when a person caught fire he is likely not to be wandering around the streets, practically unharmed, after an hour. Don't do that again. The script could have been better.

And what's with the sandhog calendar? This theme should have been left out, because it brings nothing extra to this film.

In short, the acting and special effects are OK, the plot however, should have been rewritten. Two stars is fair enough.