Arctic Predator belongs in the not good, but also not bad category. Watching this film I couldn't help thinking of a mix of Alien, Predator and The Thing, except not as good as either of those movies. As far as SyFy movies go, it's not among the best or worst, but there's nothing exceptional about Arctic Predator at the end of the day. The photography is pretty good, the direction is efficient and the acting is decent particularly from Dean Cain. The effects aren't so good, the CGI digger looks absolutely horrible and the monster of the title is a cheap version of Jack Frost's evil twin. The story has moments of suspense, but overall it is dull and predictable, I mention was the prolonged battle with the tractor necessary. The script has a very stilted nature to it, and the characters I just didn't care for. Overall, left me cold but it wasn't a complete and utter waste of time like I was expecting it to be. 4/10 Bethany Cox
10 Reviews
Abominable Alien in Antarctica
MartianOctocretr510 August 2010
The claustrophobic setting of the story is the best thing this movie has going for it. It's a typical unthinking killing machine monster flick, and seizes material from similarly themed older movies, but it's good enough to kick back with some microwave popcorn and watch.
It's in the Arctic or Antarctic somewhere and a group of scientific investigators at an outpost out there find themselves at the mercy of a weird being that looks like Jack Frost's evil twin. It feeds on energy, so it likes fire and labs and people and stuff. Characters get knocked off in the order painted on their foreheads, while the remaining ones try to figure out a way to get rid of the thing in time. Their only clue on how to do this: a century-old diary.
The acting and direction for a low budget movie are pretty decent, and the movie has its moments. Overall not bad, considering it was free.
It's in the Arctic or Antarctic somewhere and a group of scientific investigators at an outpost out there find themselves at the mercy of a weird being that looks like Jack Frost's evil twin. It feeds on energy, so it likes fire and labs and people and stuff. Characters get knocked off in the order painted on their foreheads, while the remaining ones try to figure out a way to get rid of the thing in time. Their only clue on how to do this: a century-old diary.
The acting and direction for a low budget movie are pretty decent, and the movie has its moments. Overall not bad, considering it was free.
Frozen entertainment...
paul_haakonsen26 January 2014
Well, for a movie of this particular type and caliber, I have to admit that I have seen worse. That being said, I am not saying that "Frost Giant" is a movie that shines and is outstanding. But it is enjoyable in itself for what it is; a low budget Sci-Fi horror movie.
The story is about a strange celestial creature that brought about the demise of explorers aboard a ship named The Fury. A strange creature made from ice, a creature that feeds on heat. In present time, JC (played by Dean Cain) is at the autumn of his grant, running out of possibilities to find this eluding ship that is somewhere beneath the arctic ice. And as luck would have it, the expedition finds the ship, but finds what is buried along with it as well.
Storywise, then "Frost Giant" is adequate. Not the best and most brilliant of story lines, but still entertaining for what it is. It is a fairly generic and stereotypical build up of the story.
As for the acting, well people were doing alright with their given roles and characters.
The special effects... Well, they were there, but they weren't outstanding, nor were they particularly great. The creature itself was nice in design, but the concept of it being made of ice, yet feeding on heat, not really that thought through.
The title of the movie, now that I don't really understand. Giant? There was no giant here, and the creature was just a tad taller than a properly build adult male. I can understand the "Arctic Predator" title, but "Frost Giant"? No, not really.
"Frost Giant" is the type of movie that you watch once, most likely out of sheer boredom and because nothing else better is available. Then you quickly forget about it, never to watch it again...
The story is about a strange celestial creature that brought about the demise of explorers aboard a ship named The Fury. A strange creature made from ice, a creature that feeds on heat. In present time, JC (played by Dean Cain) is at the autumn of his grant, running out of possibilities to find this eluding ship that is somewhere beneath the arctic ice. And as luck would have it, the expedition finds the ship, but finds what is buried along with it as well.
Storywise, then "Frost Giant" is adequate. Not the best and most brilliant of story lines, but still entertaining for what it is. It is a fairly generic and stereotypical build up of the story.
As for the acting, well people were doing alright with their given roles and characters.
The special effects... Well, they were there, but they weren't outstanding, nor were they particularly great. The creature itself was nice in design, but the concept of it being made of ice, yet feeding on heat, not really that thought through.
The title of the movie, now that I don't really understand. Giant? There was no giant here, and the creature was just a tad taller than a properly build adult male. I can understand the "Arctic Predator" title, but "Frost Giant"? No, not really.
"Frost Giant" is the type of movie that you watch once, most likely out of sheer boredom and because nothing else better is available. Then you quickly forget about it, never to watch it again...
Ice ice baby
ctomvelu111 June 2011
A group led by Dean Cain is searching for a long-lost ship in the Arctic and unwittingly unleashes an alien creature that looks like it's made of ice. It is drawn to any heat source, human beings included. A couple of scenes are faintly reminiscent of THE THING, but this is a paint by the numbers plot where we simply wait to see whom the monster will kill next. The monster itself is unimpressive, resembling something from an old Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer cartoon. I have seen Dean Cain in several other no-budget TV movies like this, and often wonder how he ever ended up in them. He isn't a bad actor. So I assume he has a bad manager.
Boring, Monotonous, Tedious, Predictable
scottwallvashon7 August 2010
Warning: Spoilers
I usually get through ten minutes of these movies before I am ready to write my review, but this time it took only five.
The so-called "frost giant" is the typical SyFy low-grade CGI Saturday night monster that kills indiscriminately until it is in turn killed. At least this time around the monster doesn't kill by neatly bisecting bodies. This one is a freezer. The characters it freezes are the typical two-dimensional shallow malcontent over-dramatic idiots.
Boring, boring, boring. And then it gets really boring. And then it bores you to death. The pseudoscience and faux history don't help much either. It's too bad they get actors like Dean Cain to do this sort of thing. I really feel sorry for the actors. Can't these guys make enough money off their good movies and TV shows to span these dry spells?
Oh well
The so-called "frost giant" is the typical SyFy low-grade CGI Saturday night monster that kills indiscriminately until it is in turn killed. At least this time around the monster doesn't kill by neatly bisecting bodies. This one is a freezer. The characters it freezes are the typical two-dimensional shallow malcontent over-dramatic idiots.
Boring, boring, boring. And then it gets really boring. And then it bores you to death. The pseudoscience and faux history don't help much either. It's too bad they get actors like Dean Cain to do this sort of thing. I really feel sorry for the actors. Can't these guys make enough money off their good movies and TV shows to span these dry spells?
Oh well
Icy Reception
wes-connors17 July 2014
Over the opening credits, a meteor crashes into Earth's Arctic Circle. The year is 1825 and the object is observed by a ship's crew. A glassy, humanoid insect-type creature emerges from the snow nearby and viciously begins killing off the crew. Obviously, this monster had a very bad trip
We quickly move 145 years into the present. A descendant of the ship's journalist is looking for the wreckage of "The HMS Fury". He is unshaven and adventurous Dean Cain (as James Clark "J.C." Ross). The ex-Superman TV series star finds the ship and starts to excavate. Unfortunately, the icy creature is also unearthed – and it is still really, really mad. Writer Rafael Jordan includes an interesting angle for Mr. Cain's character. Also, a "seeds of life" explanation is scientifically sound. However, there is nothing special about this story. Most of the time, you can see the cast and crew struggle to be believable on single takes and budget constraints.
*** Arctic Predator/ Frost Giant (8/7/10) Victor Garcia ~ Dean Cain, Steven Waddington, Lucy Brown, Louisa Clein
*** Arctic Predator/ Frost Giant (8/7/10) Victor Garcia ~ Dean Cain, Steven Waddington, Lucy Brown, Louisa Clein
Arctic Predator
Scarecrow-886 September 2015
Warning: Spoilers
The Fury, an English ship, in 1825 encounters an "ice creature" that emerges from the ice of the Artic after a meteor lands from space. The ship's captain is struck by the alien creature in solid form, taken back to the Fury, and documents his final words about what attacked him and his crew. An archaeologist (played by Dean Cane) completely fascinated with finding the Fury (his ancestor was a member of its crew), unintentionally releases the creature after it had been buried deep in the ice when the English ship was purposely mortared by their second English ship, the Hecla. Cane's team were allowed sanctuary in a scientific research outpost on the Arctic, so they could have the resources and accommodations available. They find the Fury, and some frozen passengers, but inadvertently release the creature from the ice. No one is safe as the creature, which can exist in solid, liquid, and gaseous form, is able to freeze humans in mere seconds!
Ridiculous premise, variable special effects, and characters that essentially serve on the purpose of being turned into icicles, Arctic Predator is a typical Syfy creature feature. Cane is a likable hero (always has been, really), but he's been caught in B-movie hell so long, he seems doomed to stay there. He brings an energy to his performance that is worthy of appreciation, and his sacrifice for humanity is tragic but admirable. The rest of the cast is faces that don't necessarily leave you remembering much about them; few are distinctively drawn. Lucy Brown is Cane's love interest (she tells him she hopes he'll just find the ship and leave! "Ouch," Dean says.), while Steve Waddington is the genius of the staff with an idea of how to kill the creature, eventually understanding its makeup and reason for existing. There's the plus of the isolated setting and ensuing winter storm which leaves the small crew trapped, and how the creature kills is nasty business (basically freezing victims into ice). However, the creature itself isn't that impressive. I did think it was rather interesting in gaseous form, but as a walking malformed ice sculpture, not so menacing due to the CGI form provided to it. That it is actually *drawn* to heat instead of afraid of it was certainly a development I wasn't expecting.
Ridiculous premise, variable special effects, and characters that essentially serve on the purpose of being turned into icicles, Arctic Predator is a typical Syfy creature feature. Cane is a likable hero (always has been, really), but he's been caught in B-movie hell so long, he seems doomed to stay there. He brings an energy to his performance that is worthy of appreciation, and his sacrifice for humanity is tragic but admirable. The rest of the cast is faces that don't necessarily leave you remembering much about them; few are distinctively drawn. Lucy Brown is Cane's love interest (she tells him she hopes he'll just find the ship and leave! "Ouch," Dean says.), while Steve Waddington is the genius of the staff with an idea of how to kill the creature, eventually understanding its makeup and reason for existing. There's the plus of the isolated setting and ensuing winter storm which leaves the small crew trapped, and how the creature kills is nasty business (basically freezing victims into ice). However, the creature itself isn't that impressive. I did think it was rather interesting in gaseous form, but as a walking malformed ice sculpture, not so menacing due to the CGI form provided to it. That it is actually *drawn* to heat instead of afraid of it was certainly a development I wasn't expecting.
Decent entry if not entirely stellar
kannibalcorpsegrinder3 April 2017
While searching for a long-lost ship in the Antarctic, a scientist and his research team stumble upon a giant creature made of ice that is responsible for his missing ship's fate, and after learning it's trying to steal their life-force must find a way of stopping the creature.
Overall this wasn't that bad of a film, although it does have some problems. One of the better elements here is the fact that when this one gets going there's some good action scenes and some nifty kills featured here. It starts off rather nicely, with the creatures' attack on the shipmates that gives this a nice opening, the eerie creature attacks on the workers down in the underground ice caves are quite decent and the creature running through the works while outside on the snowbanks are quite fun as the attempt to melt it leads to some really thrilling moments. The manner of it attacking the pilot of a departing helicopter gives this one another great battle, and the numerous attacks against it while the creature tries to break into the campsite provides some even more thrilling and engaging work as it observes some rather impressive action to not only fight it off but also engages in some rather fun behavior to learn more about it. The final half, from the full backstory about it's original intention to track it down and how it attacked the first crew which leaves this one with another stellar action scene, leads into the rather fun final confrontation which uses some innovative idea and brings some solid action along that ends this on a really nice note. Given the rather unique powers it displays throughout here, these here are what make for a fun time, although strangely you just don't care as much as you usually do about these kinds of films. The biggest issue against this one is the fact that the creature here is an utter joke and barely even registers as a threat. A large part of this is due to its ongoing mystery, as there's no backstory about it appearing here on Earth and causing havoc as there's nothing about what the creature is and why appearing on Earth is needed. There's some rather lame deductive reasonings thrown about, but none of it makes any sense in the context of what's occurred to allow them to make that leap and it just comes off rather stilted and troubling to get to that possible explanation. Likewise, there's also a complete lack of gore and violence in many of the kills as the creatures' method of draining energy from victims doesn't make for a lot of opportunities for gory kills, and when they do occur it's got all the usual Sci-Fi Channel complaints that apply here as well in terms of lousy CGI to complete them. These, along with a rather languid pace in the beginning as it takes a while to get the ship out of the ice and let the creature loose, are what really hold this one back.
Rated Unrated/R: Language and Violence.
Overall this wasn't that bad of a film, although it does have some problems. One of the better elements here is the fact that when this one gets going there's some good action scenes and some nifty kills featured here. It starts off rather nicely, with the creatures' attack on the shipmates that gives this a nice opening, the eerie creature attacks on the workers down in the underground ice caves are quite decent and the creature running through the works while outside on the snowbanks are quite fun as the attempt to melt it leads to some really thrilling moments. The manner of it attacking the pilot of a departing helicopter gives this one another great battle, and the numerous attacks against it while the creature tries to break into the campsite provides some even more thrilling and engaging work as it observes some rather impressive action to not only fight it off but also engages in some rather fun behavior to learn more about it. The final half, from the full backstory about it's original intention to track it down and how it attacked the first crew which leaves this one with another stellar action scene, leads into the rather fun final confrontation which uses some innovative idea and brings some solid action along that ends this on a really nice note. Given the rather unique powers it displays throughout here, these here are what make for a fun time, although strangely you just don't care as much as you usually do about these kinds of films. The biggest issue against this one is the fact that the creature here is an utter joke and barely even registers as a threat. A large part of this is due to its ongoing mystery, as there's no backstory about it appearing here on Earth and causing havoc as there's nothing about what the creature is and why appearing on Earth is needed. There's some rather lame deductive reasonings thrown about, but none of it makes any sense in the context of what's occurred to allow them to make that leap and it just comes off rather stilted and troubling to get to that possible explanation. Likewise, there's also a complete lack of gore and violence in many of the kills as the creatures' method of draining energy from victims doesn't make for a lot of opportunities for gory kills, and when they do occur it's got all the usual Sci-Fi Channel complaints that apply here as well in terms of lousy CGI to complete them. These, along with a rather languid pace in the beginning as it takes a while to get the ship out of the ice and let the creature loose, are what really hold this one back.
Rated Unrated/R: Language and Violence.
It was a pretty "cool" watch
VanSlammage11 December 2021
Warning: Spoilers
Arctic Predator aka Frost Giant is basically your research team isolated at an arctic outpost with a monster flick. But what sets it apart is its fictional take on historical arctic explorer James Clark Ross and his lost ship, the HMS Fury which according to the movie is due to an alien carried here by a meteor.
Fast forward to the present, Dean Cain best known from the 90's superman show Lois & Clark, stars as JC Ross, a descendant of Ross (if it wasn't obvious by their names) who's become obsessed with finding the ship.
Needless to say that once his team finds it buried and tunnels to the ship, they inadvertently unleash the trapped alien and it goes on a killing spree.
The "cool" thing about the creature is that it's made of ice and can of course, turn its body parts into weapons and the reveal that it's attracted to heat because of its desire to return to its original gaseous form.
The rest of the movie involves the team trying to survive and take out the creature while most of them end up succumbing to the creature.
It was certainly entertaining with its unique killer creature; strong cast and lots of icy kills. 3.5/5 masks!
Fast forward to the present, Dean Cain best known from the 90's superman show Lois & Clark, stars as JC Ross, a descendant of Ross (if it wasn't obvious by their names) who's become obsessed with finding the ship.
Needless to say that once his team finds it buried and tunnels to the ship, they inadvertently unleash the trapped alien and it goes on a killing spree.
The "cool" thing about the creature is that it's made of ice and can of course, turn its body parts into weapons and the reveal that it's attracted to heat because of its desire to return to its original gaseous form.
The rest of the movie involves the team trying to survive and take out the creature while most of them end up succumbing to the creature.
It was certainly entertaining with its unique killer creature; strong cast and lots of icy kills. 3.5/5 masks!
Not bad
teebear81716 October 2020
The movie is surprisingly not horrible. They acting is good, even the CGI of the creature was good... so not a bad flick, and I am very tough on movies. usually movies like this are garbage, but this actually was not too bad. Its watchable.
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