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KnotStronger This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

ddixonnhs-1 FYI - a little bit of spoiler lies ahead. But it shouldn't matter, since I highly recommend you just skip seeing this movie, anyway.Honestly, they lost me at the very beginning of the movie, when the title scroll says that by the year 2014, "all skeptics were silenced" as global warming causes the glaciers to disappear. Give me a break. The people who wrote this tripe apparently don't keep up with current events.Add to that 3 selfish, liberal scientists who don't want any word of their discovery to get out to the public because the public isn't ready to hear the truth - regardless of the danger to everyone else.The acting is all-right, however the English voice over actors who dubbed it (saw dubbed version on Netflix) did a horrible job. Most of the voices were wrong for the characters, and much of the dialogue wasn't in sync with the actors lips moving.Creature effects look like something out of the 1990's, or maybe 1980's. Cheap, puppetry looking monsters.Don't waste your time - save yourself the hour and half for something else.

jfrentzen-942-204211 This is a much better than average entry for a monster movie homage, in which an isolated scientific team is subjected to horrible animal and insect mutations emanating from an anomalous, ghastly looking blood glacier -- in particular, an homage to Roger Corman and even the prototypical "thing that lives in the cave" that goes back pre-Corman. Think any 50s monster movie that had something evil or monstrous creeping around Bronson Canyon. References to latter day monster flicks, such as Carpenter's The Thing and Cronenberg's The Fly, seem to arise out of a singular sequence that shows one of the people transformed into a breeding ground for biting mutant flies that burrow out of his face and neck to attack what is left of the team. Well-directed moments of panic and monster attacks, as well as sardonic documenting of the human foibles that contribute to almost dooming the last surviving members of the team in the final act... a somewhat anti-climactic finale. Weren't there more insects in that cave, mutating? Performances are all good or better, with Gerhard Liebmann providing the tearing out the hair emotional roller-coastering needed to sustain the drama between monster sequences. The monster effects veered between good and too revealing. Some of the bird-creature puppet scenes are over-lit, revealing a papier mache-type creature effect. Other monster grotesques were adequately handled. The tension and scares come out of characterization, occasionally dimwitted or catty interactions among characters that contributes heavily to the team's failure, and the remote looking location including an impressively red blood-dripped glacier.

emphedokles Directly after i realized that it is a German production my finger hovered over the fast forward button. When global warming was mentioned it moved to the stop button. I gave it a few more minutes, then fast forwarded a few times and finally stopped it. German movies are nearby all government financed. We have a budget of around eight billion per year for that. And that means. 1. It does not matter if your movie has success, you already got you're money. 2. You need to transport the "right opinion" with you're movie to get that money from the government. 3. Your "actors" are breed by the socialistic movie industry, what means they do not even reach the talent of the average US school theater class. And all that you can see in this movie. Catastrophes in German movies all happens because of global warming, not matter what it is. Big companies,rich or successful people are always the evil doers. Fighting or argumenting is always acted with loud shouting. Thatfor there is no need to watch a German catastrophe movie to the end. You always know the whole story from the beginning to the end, because its every time the same. We are producing more then 500 movies each year. How much German movies did you had at your cinemas last year?

lost-in-limbo Walking through my local DVD shop I came across this title, "The Station". Quite plain sounding, but it was the comment at top of the case that caught my attention; "A slice of horror reminiscent of John Carpenter's 'The Thing' ". Being at massive fan of that film, I decided to take the chance and in some regards the Austrian made "The Station" comes close. Hey I even enjoyed it more than the prequel / remake that came out a year or two back. What it has in common with Carpenter's film is more so the ice setting, an unknown threat that is a single-form alien organism transforming the local wildlife into gigantic monster mutations and hybrids. It's like "Day of the Animals", but on steroids! Then there's the ending that only paints the apocalyptic mood playing out. This is a basic straight-face creature-feature at heart with a climatic cautionary warning, which tells a simple story that effectively lays it out with a strong grizzled protagonist (a very solid showing by Gerhard Liebmann), well timed suspense, gruesome thrills and a sense of mystery of mankind's fate. The final frame of the film is surprisingly effective in its suggestion, but they spoil it on an uncalled for tacky jump scare. The premise is far from unique and quite down-pat; a group of scientists/ technicians discover a glacier of blood (an inspired image when shown) high in the mountains, which after testing the liquid discover it contains an alien organism. As they try to survive and hold up against the effects of this organism, on a hiking trip to the station for an official visit is the Minister of the Environment. The feature is slickly photographed (despite some shaky camera movement early on) and makes excellent use of its vast, breathtaking backdrop. There's a definite sense of isolation and uneasiness, but never does it struck a feeling of claustrophobia and dread. The tension seems to unfold from threatening situations and the punctuated shocks. Its momentum is fairly sedate, but it becomes crazy, excessively so as it goes along and the director keeps a fairly tight hold. What I got a kick out of was that CGI was virtually little, if unseen, opting mainly for traditional special effects and they do pay-off. The creature designs are creative and horrific with beetle-fox hybrids, giant wood lice, flying crossbreeds. There's a whole range of beasties… and they're not friendly. Squamish moments are plentiful and there a creepy developments. While the generic script doesn't over feed itself, still it had some issues like an appearance of a sudden character for them to only disappear with a poor explanation. The performances are adequate, without anyone really standing out, other than Liebmann. Clichéd, but fun, strange sci-fi / horror monster romp.And the title "Blood Glacier" sounds so much better.