image-2 I just saw this movie on the sci-fi channel last night, and it was really cool. I'm a big fan of the film-maker, and this is one that I missed.Admittedly the script seemed to have some problems, perhaps too much ex-positional dialogue, but then again it was structured as sort of a 50's style creature feature, and given the film's obviously low budget, maybe that was an aesthetic choice. Anyway, they kept the film moving at a good pace.The performances were pretty damned good too, considering there wasn't anyone in the cast that I'd ever seen in a movie before.The big breasted German babe was fine, (wish we could've seen her boobs though).Other than that, it had some great rubber monsters! A lot better than all that bad CGI crap you see now days. These cool bug creatures, (mutated, prehistoric Trilobites) about the size of a dog seemed to be running around all over the place. Don't now how they did it, but they looked great. I thought the film was a hell of a lot of fun.

Paul Andrews Deep Freeze is set in 'Antartica' where we are informed that 'due to the current oil crisis Geotech Industries established GEO-1, a state of the art drilling facility. Two months ago, things started to go wrong...'. GEO-1 has a basic skeleton crew as it gears up for full operational status, supervisor Nelson (Gotz Otto) & scientist Dr. Monica Kelsey (Alexandra Kamp-Groeneveld) plus a few lowly drillers. The base has recently been suffering from earth tremors so Geotech does what any responsible company would do & sends a helicopter full of teenage graduate students out there to study the phenomena, do a bit of research & report back. However the unsuspecting students realise that the drilling has unleashed a Trilobyte type monster that scuttles around the place killing everyone for no apparent reason...Co-produced & directed by John Carl Buechler Deep Freeze is a pretty crap attempt at a monster film. The script by Robert Boris, Dennis A. Pratt & Matthew Jason Walsh is basically a cross between Alien (1979) & The Thing (1982) only without the scares, shocks, tension or atmosphere. For a start the film is needlessly populated by annoying teenagers, there really is no need whatsoever for these people to be stuck in the middle of the Antartica. I know the film veers off course into conspiracy theory territory but it just comes across as absurd & it spends far to long on dull boring exposition that is as entertaining as watching paint dry. The character's are clichéd, the hero, the good looking bird, the computer geek, the disposable teenagers, the evil scientist & a creature that kills for no reason. I mean I can't think of an animal in nature that just kills for the hell of it, animals eat, sleep & reproduce. They don't live to kill annoying teenagers, do they? None of the victims have been eaten, they don't use the bodies to lay their young in & these things which look like large beetles just crawl around & kill the odd person, that's it. Deep Freeze is incredibly slow & it doesn't come to life until the final 15 minutes which is far too little far too late, the climax also features one of the most pathetic looking 'giant' creatures seen in recent years. Deep Freeze sucks, period.Director Buechler really should stick to special make-up effects rather than directing, I suppose it's quite well made but it doesn't have much style. There is zero scares, tension or atmosphere which just kills Deep Freeze as a horror film. The creatures themselves look OK at best but they do look like rubber beetles more than anything else. Forget about any gore, I was disappointed at how tame & bloodless Deep Freeze was. There are one or two dead bodies, a gunshot wound & a cool bit when a creature is burrowing into a woman near the end but other than that there's not a drop of blood in the thing.Technically Deep Freeze is alright, it's competent but at the same time it's very bland & forgettable. The special effects vary, some are OK while other's especially during the climax are very poor. The acting was pretty bad & those annoying teenagers, urgh.Deep Freeze is trying to be a modern variation of The Thing, all the nonsense about ecology & it's teenage cast are very 'now'. Unfortunately this doesn't make for particularly good viewing, in fact it makes for awful viewing. Do yourself a favour & stay away from this piece of crap, really poor.

johannes2000-1 I know you can't expect too much from a B-horror flick like this, and that's partly the charm of these kind of movies and why I bother to buy and watch them: you just want to be amused for one and a half hour, look at an attractive cast, watch some inventive slaughtering and/or an original, well-wrought creature, and get some laughs (either because the director meant it to be funny or as an non-deliberate side-effect). None of all this here. This is one BAD movie!! Apart from a few outside shots that could have been borrowed from any documentary about Antarctica (or any other snowy place) everything stays within the confined space of this supposedly technological top-notch research-station, which seems to consist of nothing but a few lame-looking corridors, a few bedrooms and a basin downstairs that looks like the one you buy for the kids in your back-yard. I guess the young male actors have been chosen for their looks, especially Allen Lee Haff is one handsome guy, but they all talk and move as if they're ten-year old's in a school-play. Even Goetz Otto, who's really a great German actor with a good and extensive record, fails miserably by giving a tooth-aching example of over-acting (maybe to compensate his regret in letting himself being dragged into this project). The only decent actor is Karen Nieci, who's at least trying to do a fair job. The script is bad, full of cliché's and inconsistencies, and totally devoid of any horror. There's a would-be ecological sub-plot, that's very unconvincing and forces the actors to produce complicated lines about geological and environmental stuff that they obviously don't understand a word of themselves. ***spoilers!!**** And then there's the creature, o boy, this one is really the pits, it's like a blown-up rubber cockroach on remote control, it wouldn't be misplaced in that same backyard-pool for your children to play with. Every time we see it waggle its way through a scene it's hysterical, especially when it waggles up a staircase at the end of the movie it's so idiotic that you can't believe they didn't throw the thing away after the very first viewing (or better: blow the whole project off!!). The attacks by this ferocious monster were apparently too much for the budget, so they came up with a lot of flashing of images and weird flashbacks (from the roach itself??) that along with the scary music have to do the trick (but not really). And then in the supposedly climactic apotheosis we are treated with the mother of the creature, rising out of the basin, which is so totally fake that you just watch with disbelief. This movie is a real waste of money: so bad it's not even funny, it's just tedious and boring! So it gets a 1 out of 10.

Tuco-Benedicto-Maria-Ramirez Awful film about an Antarctic (hang on...) research team (THAT sounds familiar) who have discovered a strange lifeform frozen in the ice (you guessed it). Said lifeform (a big flesh-eating bug) goes on the rampage. Terrible acting, trite script and poor ("poor" as in: "you will laugh with your friends and make fun of the film-makers who poisoned the world with this trash") special effects. It even goes as far as using unused footage from The Thing (shots of the camp from outside, and **PLOT SPOILER (not that you'll care)** when the camp blows up at the end PLOT Spoiler END (aren't you glad I warned you?)**)! Save your money and see The Thing instead, or perhaps hire a prostitute from your local escort agency - that's what the film-makers should have done. Or at least given the money spent on "Deep Freeze" to a script that deserved it.