It starts out interestingly enough with Val Kilmer dictating another on video diary entry. What follows is a string of scratchy videos (like the Dawn Of The Dead remake) that is filled with familiar actors like William B. Davis ('X-Files') and Gary Chalk ('Stargate SG-1', 'Dead Zone', and 'Cold Squad').
Then when the credits are over we jump to a classroom where several students are being picked for a trip to help Kilmer in his studies on the tundra. They are Kyle Schmid (Feddy, 'Blood Ties'), his girlfriend Ling (Asian actress Steph Song), Aaron Ashmore (Atom, 'Smallville'), and Kilmer's on screen daughter Martha MacIsaac (Evelyn 'Emily Of New Moon, 'Di-Gata Defenders'). They will be flown up there by helicopter pilot Peter Kelamis (Mike, 'Stargate SGU', and an accomplished voice-over actor). There is an awfully lot of actors here that have appeared in mostly "G"-rated movies.
Just before they fly up there, Kilmer calls Mike from his dig, and tells him to not to bring Eve with the rest of the students. But, Eve bullheadedly decides to go anyway. When she gets there they find that the camp is deserted, the rest are away on a dig, but it is not empty. There is a dead polar bear, and after some sexual shenanigans between Feddy & Ling, during which both are bit by some revived insects.
It seems that when Kilmer & co. found a frozen mastodon, it was infected with parasites, and these parasites have decided to latch onto anything warm-blooded, like the polar bear, and their human discoverers. They have infected some at the dig, and they have infested the camp, and will infect a number of the camp's new inhabiters. There lies the movie's drama, Ling gets hysterical, Atom has a phobia, and goes off the deep end, and Mike has some impromptu amputation.
In the end, the acting, pacing, story, and special effects were so much better than your average direct-to-DVD movie, and light years better than the average Scy-Fy channel crap that you have to like this. I haven't been much impressed by Ghost House movies in the past, but this one is certainly worth a rental, and should please nature-goes-berserk movie fans, although, like "The Thing" this movie has an ending that defies logic, and leaves itself open for a sequel.
Then when the credits are over we jump to a classroom where several students are being picked for a trip to help Kilmer in his studies on the tundra. They are Kyle Schmid (Feddy, 'Blood Ties'), his girlfriend Ling (Asian actress Steph Song), Aaron Ashmore (Atom, 'Smallville'), and Kilmer's on screen daughter Martha MacIsaac (Evelyn 'Emily Of New Moon, 'Di-Gata Defenders'). They will be flown up there by helicopter pilot Peter Kelamis (Mike, 'Stargate SGU', and an accomplished voice-over actor). There is an awfully lot of actors here that have appeared in mostly "G"-rated movies.
Just before they fly up there, Kilmer calls Mike from his dig, and tells him to not to bring Eve with the rest of the students. But, Eve bullheadedly decides to go anyway. When she gets there they find that the camp is deserted, the rest are away on a dig, but it is not empty. There is a dead polar bear, and after some sexual shenanigans between Feddy & Ling, during which both are bit by some revived insects.
It seems that when Kilmer & co. found a frozen mastodon, it was infected with parasites, and these parasites have decided to latch onto anything warm-blooded, like the polar bear, and their human discoverers. They have infected some at the dig, and they have infested the camp, and will infect a number of the camp's new inhabiters. There lies the movie's drama, Ling gets hysterical, Atom has a phobia, and goes off the deep end, and Mike has some impromptu amputation.
In the end, the acting, pacing, story, and special effects were so much better than your average direct-to-DVD movie, and light years better than the average Scy-Fy channel crap that you have to like this. I haven't been much impressed by Ghost House movies in the past, but this one is certainly worth a rental, and should please nature-goes-berserk movie fans, although, like "The Thing" this movie has an ending that defies logic, and leaves itself open for a sequel.