Frozen – Etwas hat überlebt (2009)

Frozen – Etwas hat überlebt: Directed by Mark A. Lewis. With Val Kilmer, Martha MacIsaac, Kyle Schmid, William B. Davis. A research expedition to the Arctic discovers that a melting polar ice cap has released a deadly prehistoric parasite.

“Why was Val Kilmer in this one? It makes no sense to me. I know heu0026#39;s growing old and his last castings were not the best, but still.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe film is a classic isolated monster/contagion movie, featuring most clichés you would expect. Brave and good looking chick, check; black and Asian representation, check; cowardly hysterical jerk, check; scary but completely implausible premise, check; mad scientist, check; brave guy that saves the girl, check. Actually, the formulaic concepts were so absurdly respected that when there was a scene where they would cut some guyu0026#39;s arm off to stop the contagion, they didnu0026#39;t actually show the cut. Same goes for when the girl had to strip to check for contagion. No problem showing flesh crawling bugs, though.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI could debate the reasons why the film made no sense to no end, but I will tell you just this: prehistoric bugs that come out of the thawing ice will NOT make me think harder about global warming. This theme is largely responsible for why the movie sucked so much.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eBottom line: couldnu0026#39;t even give it an average 7. The effects and the atmosphere (if you ignore the actors completely) are the only two good things happening here.”