Intcatinfo A Masterpiece!

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Aubrey Hackett While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Ginger Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Kingkitsch Really, how many movies feature ibexes, let alone a mutant ibex-fly that gets a drill in the noggin by a feisty granny? This may entice you to watch "Blood Glacier" next time you see it in the Netflix lineup of terrible, terrible horror/scifi movies. If you dimly remember having heard about this Alpine tale of terror, it's worth a six-pack and a bag of chips.While beautifully photographed, offering amazing views of bleak ice and mountains, this movie hasn't got a clue what it wants to do. Convince you of global warming? Scare you with mutant hybrid creatures that look like stuffed animals you'd win at a carnival? Tear your heart out with thwarted love and dog death? Make you laugh uproariously at the absolutely insane behavior of "smart" scientists? Teach you not to cry while eating bananas? BG is all this, and more.Throw these movies into a blender: The Thing, Alien, Day of the Animals, Old Yeller, Sound of Music, and that moldy oldie from the 50s, Night of the Blood Beast (the very first movie to speculate that humans make great hosts for birthing alien infants). Turn on blender. Wait about 80 minutes. Pour out your scifi smoothie and wonder how this ever got made. Take a drink of your liquid every time someone says "rabid fox", which in German sounds like "rabbit fuxes". Tack on one of the strangest endings you'll ever see and wonder if someone slipped LSD into your movie smoothie. No kidding.Pray there's no sequel. Four stars for insanity. One star for Tinni, the best goshdarn dog actor in the world. One star, because ibexes. Six is the magic number for this smelly sausage of a movie that features someone walking around a glacier in dirty underpants.Enjoy the schadenfreud!

ericrnolan (The following review contains general spoilers.)I want to love "Blutgletscher" ("Blood Glacier"), an earnestly made independent German science fiction-horror film from 2013. I just can't ignore its flaws, however, and I've got to settle on a giving it a 6 out of 10.It has so much going for it. There's a freezing, arctic-like location. (This time out, we're in the mountains of Austria.) There's nifty/nasty sci-fi plot device. There's a variety of gooey monsters. It's creepy and atmospheric — a group of protagonists huddled in an isolated location while the wind howls outside on a cold night. There's a cunning everyman antihero. All of these are rendered by a reasonably intelligent script that lets "Blood Glacier" rise above the level of a horror-comedy.But its flaws make me hesitate to recommend it. It's poorly paced, for example, and is sometimes confusingly plotted. One person assailed by the creepy-crawlies emerges as kind of villain, but the character's motivations are never clear. Also, why is another character consistently a idiot? Is he just a really dumb scientist? And the ending shows otherwise intelligent people doing something incredibly ill advised.And I was puzzled by the special effects. At times, they were actually damn good! But at many points in the movie (as so many other reviews will point out) they were downright poor. I kept thinking that they looked like props in a high school play.Additionally, (and this can't be the fault of the filmmakers) the version of "Blood Glacier" that I watched had incredibly poor English-language dubbing. The actors on screen (especially Gerhard Liebmann and Briggite Kren) did a fine job, but their corresponding voice actors had … no talent or enthusiasm at all.Look, I don't think it's much of a spoiler if I tell you that this movie strongly parallels John Carpenter's "The Thing" (1982). Any horror fan worth his or her salt should suspect as much if they read the preceding paragraphs. Our MacReady-like antihero drinks heavily and … he even looks like MacReady! And a dog and a helicopter are actually minor plot devices.But I liked this movie's thoughtful story device too much to call this film "a rip-off;" I'd rather think of it as a fairly skilled homage.Honestly? If you're fan of "The Thing," you might enjoy this as an interesting companion film. As another online reviewer bluntly forgave it, "It isn't TOTAL crap."If you hunt it down, its alternate title is "The Station."

jabrbi You know how things are. There you are in a scientific research station 3000m up a mountain when suddenly all sorts of horrific creatures start turning up wanting to eat you. We've all been there and laughed about it the next day.There's nothing really special about this film. It's a solid workman-like horror film that doesn't do anything wrong compared to other horror films, but it doesn't lift itself up to iconic-level cult status. The acting is good, the scenery is fantastic (or very bleak and forbidding depending on the mood required), the setup works as a way of isolating a group of people and the mechanism for creating the creatures, whilst being completely bonkers tripe, does allow for any crazy mix of chimeras that you care to think up in your worst out of body experiences.It's never explained where the 'organism' that creates the nightmare creatures comes from, and whether every chimera created survives to become a viable creature, or why this organism has suddenly appears and in such numbers. However, most horror films are just as bad at explaining things so I don't hold it against this film.Although the number of people is limited, there is a high death rate, most of them being suitable gory but, sadly, the one you really want to survive is the first to get it in the neck.The minister's character is superb. The minister is a woman, thankfully breaking the stereotype/cliché of useless women, and boy has she got guts, presence and a working brain. Anyone who says something stupid, does something stupid or just gets in the way are soon put in their place, hence the "Stop eating that banana while you're crying" title.Yes, there are the obligatory idiots, but you know they're idiots, as does the minister. As well as the minister there are three other capable characters. Sadly, the hunky body guard gets it in the chest before he has a chance to take his shirt off (boo), but the technician and his ex at least realise the danger they're in and don't stand around screaming, carelessly leaving doors open, or walking straight into the jaws of some nightmare creature.At one point a young woman appears being chased by a creature and she seems to then fill the role of screaming bint and incubation chamber. There seems to be no point to this character, and the role of incubator could easily have been given to banana-eating woman.The ending is a bit flat. There's the inevitable scene where we know that the crisis is only just beginning, there's the jump scare at the end, but you can spot it coming if you're paying attention, and everybody left alive makes it off the mountain. But there's no great feeling of achievement at the end. One of the survivors telephones for a helicopter, just like phoning for a taxi, and off home everybody goes.This is a competent film that stays well within its intended milieu and delivers a solid experience that many will appreciate, if not enjoy. I liked the film, but a little more attention to the plot, and a bit more slapping from the minister would have raised this film to an 8.

Scott Sanders Simply put, this movie is bad. It's not even so bad it's good. It certainly does not help that the English version was dubbed from German by uninspired voice actors. The dialog is embarrassingly awful with such gems as "stop eating that banana while you are crying!" The special effects are worse than those in a SyFy Channel movie. Random characters appear out of nowhere, such as a young woman who looks like she just left a rave running down a 12,000 foot high mountain. The plot makes very little sense. I am still trying to figure out what the Minister was a minister of. She was some sort of government official who required an armed body guard. But her exact role or importance in the government is a mystery. And while she is no spring chicken herself, she has no problem telling an older man that he is too old to help out. The movie also has an abortion subplot that is thrown in only to accomplish a silly plot twist. I am a huge fan of mindless scary movies. Blood Glacier did not satisfy.