The Thaw

Aug 30, 2009

1h 34m

★ 5.7

Extinction will find you.

Overview

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.

Genres

Horror

Science Fiction

Production Companies

Brightlight Pictures

Anagram Pictures

Etch Media

Artifact Films

Corus Entertainment

Téléfilm Canada

Voltage Pictures

The Thaw Trailers

Cast

Dr. David Kruipen

Val Kilmer

Evelyn Kruipen

Martha MacIsaac

Atom Galen

Aaron Ashmore

Federico Fulce

Kyle Schmid

Bart

Viv Leacock

Ling Chen

Steph Song

Dr. Jane Sanders

Anne Marie DeLuise

Edward

John Callander

Nuti

Lamech Kadloo

Professor Anderson

Evan Adams

Chad

Sebastian Stewart

Ted

William B. Davis

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