The Thaw 2009

Horror in the Artic

 At a remote Artic research station, four ecology students discover the real horror of global warming is not the melting ice, but what’s frozen within it.

A deadly prehistoric parasite is released when a Woolly Mammoth is discovered in a melting ice cap. Faced with a potentially global epidemic, four ecology students must destroy the parasite before it reaches the rest of civilization.

One-by-one they are infected and one-by-one they turn on each other. Soon the survivors are left with only one choice - to make the ultimate sacrifice and burn everything to the ground... including

themselves .

 Val Kilmer, Martha Macisaac, Aaron Ashmore and Kyle Schmid

 I had to watch this film with my hands over my eyes, peeking out at the screen between my fingers.  The scenes with the bugs were very realistic, special effects did an awesome job. 

Although frightening, the sad truth is, this is something that we, the global community could be faced with among many other tragic effects of global warming.  The message here is loud and clear.  This film will leave you thinking.