February 23, 2009 With no official release date set, "The Thaw" at least looks like an original, interesting environmental horror movie.



At a remote Arctic research station, four ecology students discover the real horror of global warming is not the melting ice, but what's frozen within it. A prehistoric parasite is released from the carcass of a Woolly Mammoth upon the unsuspecting students who are forced to quarantine and make necessary sacrifices, or risk infecting the rest of the world.

The film was directed by Mark A. Lewis, who also wrote it.


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