Ice worms are real. These inch long cousins of the earthworm spend their entire lives in and on glaciers. Come evening they crawl to the surface and feed on the sparce glacial algae.
Ed's movie reference: Diabolique (1955), Last Year At Marienbad (1961), The Italian Straw Hat (1928), Eyes Without A Face (1960), Mister Hulots Holiday (1953), The Blue Angel (1959), Nosferatu (1922) **Doctor Mabuse - The character of "Doctor Mabuse" was mentioned but not a specific film. The character was made famous by three films about the character directed in Germany by Fritz Lang, "Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler" 1922, "The Testament of Dr. Mabuse" 1933 and the much later "The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse" 1960. Five other films featuring Dr. Mabuse were made by other directors in Germany in the early 1960s followed by Jess Franco's interpretation "The Vengeance of Dr. Mabuse" in 1971.