The Thaw
Release date: 2009-08-30
Votes: 320
Genres: Horror, Science Fiction
At a remote Arctic research station, four ecology students discover the real horror of global warming is not the melting ice, but what's frozen within it. A prehistoric parasite is released from the carcass of a Woolly Mammoth upon the unsuspecting students who are forced to quarantine and make necessary sacrifices, or risk infecting the rest of the world.
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portnoyz
Formula flick + a bit preachy at times,
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