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Evelyn Kruipen accompanies a group of ecology students to a remote research station where her father, the famed scientist Dr Kruipen (Val Kilmer) has discovered the carcass of a Woolly Mammoth in a melting ice cap. Arriving in the icy north they find that the research station has been mysteriously abandoned and Evelyn discovers that something else has survived thousands of years locked in the frozen ice cap. A deadly parasite has been unleashed by her father and one by one the students are infected and turn on each other. Dr Krupien staggers back to the station, wounded but alive and just as Evelyn thinks that help is at hand her father makes a staggering revelation...
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Val Kilmer (The Saint) plays Doctor David Kruipen, a scientist investigating global-warming's effect on the Arctic ice. When melting ice reveals a woolly mammoth corpse, people at the research station start getting sick. With his team in dire straits, David requests reinforcements to continue his research, but when his daughter tags alongs with the recruits, David is put into a difficult moral decision on what comes first, his research or his daughter? As the parasites continue to infect the researchers, it becomes a quarantine survival situation, but will anyone make it out alive?
The Thaw is a decent enough Horror film, well fleshed-out with respectable CGI and acting from all involved. There are some pretty gory scenes with subcutaneous burrowing insects involved and I was geuinely gripped with intrigue throughout the duration. Whilst this isn't the most original theme out there by any means, this is a decent rendition of a worn idea (isolation and the unknown) but done in a way that will keep you interested, but fails to blow you away.
Recommended for a quality Horror movie - an easy watch - but nothing incredible.
The Thaw is a decent enough Horror film, well fleshed-out with respectable CGI and acting from all involved. There are some pretty gory scenes with subcutaneous burrowing insects involved and I was geuinely gripped with intrigue throughout the duration. Whilst this isn't the most original theme out there by any means, this is a decent rendition of a worn idea (isolation and the unknown) but done in a way that will keep you interested, but fails to blow you away.
Recommended for a quality Horror movie - an easy watch - but nothing incredible.
6 of 8 people found the following review helpful
By Albatross
Format:DVD
`Thaw' is basically a warning against global warming where, because if the polar ice caps melting, a woolly mammoth's body is discovered an unfrozen. Bugs are unleashed from its corpse which then set about infecting and killing your average bunch of American teenagers who always seem to end up in these sorts of situations.
Thaw seemed like a bit of a remake of `Cabin Fever' due to it having a group of dopey teens in a secluded setting, turning on each other as they don't know who's definitely infected and who's not. However, where as Cabin Fever had a fair share of humour to its gore, Thaw plays it straight.
That's not to say that Thaw's a bad film. It has its plus points - the bugs are well animated (as far as inch-long beasties can be) and there are some nice moments of gore to keep those with a strong stomach happy. The film goes along as you'd expect. Sure, if this happened in real life, we'd probably do something different, but, luckily for the plot (and bugs in many ways) the group of teenagers contains a prize chump who seems to choose the wrong decision at every turn (which results in another death or amputation).
Thaw is no classic (it has Val Kilmer in it after all), but there are worse horror films out there (like most of the studio `After Dark's' output). Don't expect too much and you may enjoy it.
Thaw seemed like a bit of a remake of `Cabin Fever' due to it having a group of dopey teens in a secluded setting, turning on each other as they don't know who's definitely infected and who's not. However, where as Cabin Fever had a fair share of humour to its gore, Thaw plays it straight.
That's not to say that Thaw's a bad film. It has its plus points - the bugs are well animated (as far as inch-long beasties can be) and there are some nice moments of gore to keep those with a strong stomach happy. The film goes along as you'd expect. Sure, if this happened in real life, we'd probably do something different, but, luckily for the plot (and bugs in many ways) the group of teenagers contains a prize chump who seems to choose the wrong decision at every turn (which results in another death or amputation).
Thaw is no classic (it has Val Kilmer in it after all), but there are worse horror films out there (like most of the studio `After Dark's' output). Don't expect too much and you may enjoy it.
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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The film starts with a big hullaballoo about global warming which, whilst justifiable, is a little confusing. When it gets down to the action though, I found it pretty good. The basic plot is that there are some researchers out in the Arctic; they find a bear eating something; tranquillise it, and then mysteriously get ill. That's the start. Then there arrive some student ecologists expecting to find these researchers at the base camp. The chief researcher's daughter also comes despite his having told her not to come.
It's not spoiling much to say that the mysterious cause of the sickness are prehistoric 'vertebrates' which have hatched from frozen eggs in the carcass of the wooly mammoth that the polar bear had been eating at the start. Anyway, these bugs are pretty pernicious; getting under the characters' skin in 'The Mummy' style.The rest of the film is mostly the 4 students dealing with the bug problem inside the research base, which gives rise to some fairly gross scenes--although retrospectively the 'ick factor' could have been higher. If you're not a bug fan, the film will probably succeed in unnerving you a fair bit. I found myself swatting at a fly a little apprehensively half-way through the film!
If you like horror movies, and especially 'biological' horror movies, this will be a good one to add to your repertoire. If not, I'd just rent it. The acting is ok, though I didn't really connect with any of the characters. There are some grisly scenes, and some moments where you will be shaking your head at moronic decisions, but all in all it's not a bad film.
It's not spoiling much to say that the mysterious cause of the sickness are prehistoric 'vertebrates' which have hatched from frozen eggs in the carcass of the wooly mammoth that the polar bear had been eating at the start. Anyway, these bugs are pretty pernicious; getting under the characters' skin in 'The Mummy' style.The rest of the film is mostly the 4 students dealing with the bug problem inside the research base, which gives rise to some fairly gross scenes--although retrospectively the 'ick factor' could have been higher. If you're not a bug fan, the film will probably succeed in unnerving you a fair bit. I found myself swatting at a fly a little apprehensively half-way through the film!
If you like horror movies, and especially 'biological' horror movies, this will be a good one to add to your repertoire. If not, I'd just rent it. The acting is ok, though I didn't really connect with any of the characters. There are some grisly scenes, and some moments where you will be shaking your head at moronic decisions, but all in all it's not a bad film.
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