Review of The Thaw (2009) by Kyle C — 01 Nov 2011
I really wanted to like The Thaw--an arctic horror film starring Val Kilmer. Unfortunately, The Thaw ends up being a mediocre-at-best eco-horror film that is as predictable as it is slow and not scary.
The film is never even really set in the true arctic like The Thing, 30 Days of Night, The Last Winter, etc. It takes place in a sort of liminal zone where we never get the sublime aspects of the true arctic, an environment that has provided fertile ground for horror going back to Shelley's Frankenstein, Poe's Arthur Gordon Pym, and Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness.
Instead, The Thaw ends up just being a boring horror film that is overly preachy with its message about global warming.
This review of The Thaw (2009) was written by Kyle C on 01 Nov 2011.
The Thaw has generally received mixed reviews.
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