Nothing is more frustrating than seeing a trailer for a movie that piques my interest only to realize I had the opportunity to see it before. In the case of the ridiculously titled Blood Glacier, I could have seen it at last year’s Toronto Film Festival when it had a much better title, The Station. Of course, there may be good reason it wasn’t brought to my attention the same way films such as Oculus and Afflicted became the talk of last year’s TIFF when it comes to horror…
In his review at Twitch, Todd Brown says the film has all the ingredients for a great horror film but, “Saddled with unlikeable characters and ineffective creatures The Station is left with nothing, really, but the impressive views. And while I like looking at a mountain as much as the next guy that’s not at all what I came here to do.”
Brown also gives a rundown of the film’s plot and while he doesn’t draw the comparison, I think it’s safe to assume director Marvin Kren is a fan of John Carpenter‘s The Thing:
The action takes place high in the Austrian Alps, with a team of environmental scientists discovering a strange phenomenon known as ‘glacier blood’ dripping from the melting ice cap nearby. When glaciers ‘bleed’ like this in real life – and, yes, this is an actual phenomenon – the red liquid oozing out is typically some sort of oxidized material or algae growth but here, here it’s something different. The melting ice has released an organism from the planet’s far past, a sort of evolutionary driver that has the ability to blend the DNA of multiple creatures. Think of it this way: If a dog were to drink the glacier blood and then be bitten by a mosquito the dog and mosquito DNA would mix and result in an even split of the two creatures in one body. The possibilities are endless, and horrifying.
Watching the trailer and imagining the possibilities, it’s frustrating to think this didn’t work out, but with IFC Midnight bringing it to video on demand on May 2, I’m still tempted to give it a look. [via Slashfilm]
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