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A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

This movie has just started on the Horror Channel. It seemed familiar and it was. I suffered the pain of this dark (lighting) bleak (Plot and script) a couple of years ago and I am still wearing the plasters. The three stars are Michael Rooker who was ever reliable but what he was doing in this cheap drivel? I will never know. New furniture?? The icy desolate waste is probably a metaphor or the commissioning suits minds although adequate for the movie.I cannot go too far into all the performances but the supporting cast were keen if nothing else. I have also have seen some pretty cheap effects when watching Z rated creature features, and some are very good, but this one really had me in stitches. Spend £20 and make it look like £9. Someone is missing a wet suit and flippers.Even for hard core horror fans (we have watched some rubbish) give it a wide one unless you want to chuckle at the rubber beastie.

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.

Ray Pelletier (Michael Rooker) just wants to spend a pleasant and relaxing weekend ice fishing with his family. Alas, Ray's plans are ruined by the unwanted presence of the obnoxious big city father and son duo of Steve Cote and Stevie Jr.I love me some Michael Rooker, and he does not disappoint here. This is not his funniest role, nor his most aggressive role, but he makes his presence known and I loved every frame of it.This film had great creature effects and gore effects, and one nasty venom sequence (perhaps Blanche Baker's finest performance). For being a relatively simple plot with few twists and turns, I thought it was quite effective at building an atmosphere and the characters.Dark Sky Films continues to be one of the better companies out there for horror films.

Ray Pelletier (an excellent and convincing performance by the always dependable Michael Rooker) is looking forward to a pleasant and relaxing weekend ice fishing with his family. Alas, Ray's plans are ruined by the unwanted presence of crude jerk Steve Cotes (a hilariously obnoxious portrayal by Don Wood) and his son Stevie Jr. (neatly essayed Greg Finley). However, both squabbling families have to put their differences aside and work together to stay alive when a vicious prehistoric humanoid monster (Asa Liebmann in a gnarly rubber suit) awakens from the cold waters of the frozen lake they are fishing at. Writer/director James Felix McKenney relates the engrossing story at a snappy pace, takes time to develop the characters, stages the sudden and startling creature attack scenes with considerable go-for-the-throat flair, treats the potentially silly premise with admirably grim seriousness, generates a good deal of tension, and delivers a satisfying amount of bloody gore. The solid acting by the able cast holds the picture together: Rooker does his usual ace job in the lead, Blanche Baker excels as Ray's sweet wife Helen, Wood makes the most out of his colorfully boorish character, plus there's respectable work from Benjamin Forster as Ray's amiable son David and Amy Chang as David's cheery girlfriend Gina. The bleak snow-covered wintry landscape conveys a powerfully unsettling feeling of isolation, desolation, and vulnerability. Eric Branco's slick cinematography boasts lots of cool red-tinted monster POV shots. Sean Eden's spare ominous score hits the spine-tingling spot. The tight 73 minute running time ensures that this movie never gets dull or overstays its welcome. A real only the money little fright flick.