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Ray (Rooker) and Helen (Baker) have planned a day ice fishing with their son David (Forster) and his girlfriend Gina (Amy Chang) on a frozen lake. The family is interrupted by a loudmouth father Steve (Wood) and his son Stevie Jr. (Greg Finley) who make noise and scare the fish away. A confrontation is avoided when Ray accepts the invite for beers at their portable trailer that they have parked on the ice. Stevie Jr. is pulled into the water and is bit by a creature that no one sees. Ray and Helen urge the father to gets his son to a doctor but he refuses. The families soon realize they are up against a creature that is below the ice that is looking at them as prey. Writer/Director James Felix McKenney sets up this story well with Rooker as a good guy for once and then lets us down completely when the monster under the ice is revealed. The only way to describe the man in the wet suit with some fake looking teeth and googly eyes would be to say this is 1958 and this was all the filmmakers could come up with. The problem is its 2011, and all though no one wants to see another crappy CGI monster wrecking another movie, someone should have said 'no' when this was decided on. The movie manages to have some fun anyway benefiting from the decent set up, and one well timed jolt that comes when David is killed. Everything is taken seriously and then the stupid looking creature shows up and ruins everything.
SanteeFats
Man this movie actually started out with a lot of promise. Then the creature actually shows up. A human in a wet suit with some added garbage in this day of CGI? What a load. Until the thing showed up this movie was alright. Decent acting and writing, nice scenery if you are in a warm place since the cast is surrounded by snow, ice, and winds. Then things went to what is becoming the usual for Chiller and Syfy movies, really poor endings. There is no closure in this movie unlike most horror movies, usually the bad thing dies. The monster just goes away after killing all the males, but only after the old mom basically begs for the lives of herself and her sons fiancée. This film could have been so much more than it was.
sforrester-3
The acting from most of the cast on this was okay, the setting was suitably bleak and the basic premise of this film was good. The problem for me were the effects and especially the creature itself. The very basic quality of the effects took what could have been an okay horror to something that was, at times, laughable. I did actually laugh out loud when the "creature" ran across the ice looking strangely similar to an ungainly man trying to run in flippers. Considering at other points of the film, the creature's speed on the ice is an integral part of the plot, you would have thought somebody would have looked at the scenes of it running and said "that looks crap" but apparently nobody spoke up. It would have actually been better if the creature had never been shown at all. I realise that this film did not have a huge budget but there have been other small budget films where the horror factor has been huge with the use of suspense and without the use of fancy dress shop outfits. Overall, quite disappointing.
bjjnedan
This movie is about a family on an ice fishing vacation. On a lake where something supernatural, prehistoric, or just plain stupid, is the top predator.Yeah, this movie is bad. I don't really remember too many details because I lost interest the very first time I caught a glimpse of the tall, lanky retard in the sh**ty, cheap Halloween costume. The acting is bad. Hell, there were a few occurrences where the same person was called 3 different characters names. In one scene, the son is called David (I think that was the characters name), Stevie (a completely different character in the same scene), and Cody I think. Then 30 seconds later, they call the dad all the same things. Hell, the hot little Asian chick refers to Mr. Pelletier (Michael Rooker) as Mr. Cote on more than one occasion. Cote was the father and son they meet on the lake. The effects were miserable. The creature effects, the special effects, any effect in this p.o.s. was just embarrassing. Seriously, the monster in this looked like either a terrible costume or a cheap bondage (whatever it's called). This movie is bad. Avoid this at all costs. Seriously, if it comes down to it, sell your kid into slavery just to not have to watch this crap.
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