Review – Deep Freeze

Imagine The Thing remade with just about everything good removed. A research station in Antarctica is attacked from within by a monster that’s been frozen in the ice for millennia. Those are the good leftovers from the Carpenter production. The rest of it is strictly Sci Fi Channel dreadful. The monsters turn out to be overgrown trilobites (sort of), way cuter than the grad students they’re chewing up. The research base appears to be an empty factory of the sort often used for location shoots in movies like this, which here raises questions about how – not to mention why – an oil drilling company would build such an extensive concrete and metal structure on a mess of ice and/or unstable rock. Overall this is just another one of these. Mildly amusing