jfrentzen-942-204211 This is a much better than average entry for a monster movie homage, in which an isolated scientific team is subjected to horrible animal and insect mutations emanating from an anomalous, ghastly looking blood glacier -- in particular, an homage to Roger Corman and even the prototypical "thing that lives in the cave" that goes back pre-Corman. Think any 50s monster movie that had something evil or monstrous creeping around Bronson Canyon. References to latter day monster flicks, such as Carpenter's The Thing and Cronenberg's The Fly, seem to arise out of a singular sequence that shows one of the people transformed into a breeding ground for biting mutant flies that burrow out of his face and neck to attack what is left of the team. Well-directed moments of panic and monster attacks, as well as sardonic documenting of the human foibles that contribute to almost dooming the last surviving members of the team in the final act... a somewhat anti-climactic finale. Weren't there more insects in that cave, mutating? Performances are all good or better, with Gerhard Liebmann providing the tearing out the hair emotional roller-coastering needed to sustain the drama between monster sequences. The monster effects veered between good and too revealing. Some of the bird-creature puppet scenes are over-lit, revealing a papier mache-type creature effect. Other monster grotesques were adequately handled. The tension and scares come out of characterization, occasionally dimwitted or catty interactions among characters that contributes heavily to the team's failure, and the remote looking location including an impressively red blood-dripped glacier.

Rabh17 This flick, I ALMOST rented from iTunes, but something told me: "Wait..." I'm glad I listened to my inner critic...so even though I slated this baby for a Saturday Night B thriller, it did itself in two ways: It Excelled and it Bombed at the same time.The set-up for the 'horror drama' is so predictable and derivative of 'The Thing' that it made me gag. Nevermind the side complaint that considering it about a 'Glacier' I didn't see all that much snow...nor did anyone even give the impression that it was cold at any time during the movie.Next-- they dubbed this movie. They really, REALLY should have gone with subtitles. But because they went with dubbing, by the time I heard "Don't eat bananas while you're crying!" I could only double over with hysterics. For the life of me, I don't know WHERE that line came from or what the script writer was thinking...but that line is Immortal in my view now.The Characters...they were just doomed. They were all going to die. They all DESERVED to die. And their Deaths had nothing to do with the Plot. They just deserved death on principle. And then the Director and the Script Writers deserved to spill blood on the rocks alongside them for good measure.The only person who I liked and who was spared was the Minister: She was a battle-axe of a woman. And evidently most Austrian women are battle-axes, because all the men were wimps or alcoholics in this movie.The screaming was good. It's ironic, because there was no tension or suspense by this point. It was just non-stop screaming and mayhem and I couldn't STOP LAUGHING...because this was NOT the intent of the Movie!!! Oh...and the Monsters were done pretty well. That's what the 4 stars are for.Good Monsters. Many Screams. Hysterical Dubbing.Watch this mess with Friends, Beer and Sarcasm on a Saturday Night.

emphedokles Directly after i realized that it is a German production my finger hovered over the fast forward button. When global warming was mentioned it moved to the stop button. I gave it a few more minutes, then fast forwarded a few times and finally stopped it. German movies are nearby all government financed. We have a budget of around eight billion per year for that. And that means. 1. It does not matter if your movie has success, you already got you're money. 2. You need to transport the "right opinion" with you're movie to get that money from the government. 3. Your "actors" are breed by the socialistic movie industry, what means they do not even reach the talent of the average US school theater class. And all that you can see in this movie. Catastrophes in German movies all happens because of global warming, not matter what it is. Big companies,rich or successful people are always the evil doers. Fighting or argumenting is always acted with loud shouting. Thatfor there is no need to watch a German catastrophe movie to the end. You always know the whole story from the beginning to the end, because its every time the same. We are producing more then 500 movies each year. How much German movies did you had at your cinemas last year?

jabrbi You know how things are. There you are in a scientific research station 3000m up a mountain when suddenly all sorts of horrific creatures start turning up wanting to eat you. We've all been there and laughed about it the next day.There's nothing really special about this film. It's a solid workman-like horror film that doesn't do anything wrong compared to other horror films, but it doesn't lift itself up to iconic-level cult status. The acting is good, the scenery is fantastic (or very bleak and forbidding depending on the mood required), the setup works as a way of isolating a group of people and the mechanism for creating the creatures, whilst being completely bonkers tripe, does allow for any crazy mix of chimeras that you care to think up in your worst out of body experiences.It's never explained where the 'organism' that creates the nightmare creatures comes from, and whether every chimera created survives to become a viable creature, or why this organism has suddenly appears and in such numbers. However, most horror films are just as bad at explaining things so I don't hold it against this film.Although the number of people is limited, there is a high death rate, most of them being suitable gory but, sadly, the one you really want to survive is the first to get it in the neck.The minister's character is superb. The minister is a woman, thankfully breaking the stereotype/cliché of useless women, and boy has she got guts, presence and a working brain. Anyone who says something stupid, does something stupid or just gets in the way are soon put in their place, hence the "Stop eating that banana while you're crying" title.Yes, there are the obligatory idiots, but you know they're idiots, as does the minister. As well as the minister there are three other capable characters. Sadly, the hunky body guard gets it in the chest before he has a chance to take his shirt off (boo), but the technician and his ex at least realise the danger they're in and don't stand around screaming, carelessly leaving doors open, or walking straight into the jaws of some nightmare creature.At one point a young woman appears being chased by a creature and she seems to then fill the role of screaming bint and incubation chamber. There seems to be no point to this character, and the role of incubator could easily have been given to banana-eating woman.The ending is a bit flat. There's the inevitable scene where we know that the crisis is only just beginning, there's the jump scare at the end, but you can spot it coming if you're paying attention, and everybody left alive makes it off the mountain. But there's no great feeling of achievement at the end. One of the survivors telephones for a helicopter, just like phoning for a taxi, and off home everybody goes.This is a competent film that stays well within its intended milieu and delivers a solid experience that many will appreciate, if not enjoy. I liked the film, but a little more attention to the plot, and a bit more slapping from the minister would have raised this film to an 8.