
Isolation(2005)
On a remote Irish farm, five people become unwilling participants in an experiment that goes nightmarishly wrong.


“Extinction will find you.”
At a remote Arctic research station, four ecology students discover the real horror of global warming is not the melting ice, but what's frozen within it. A prehistoric parasite is released from the carcass of a Woolly Mammoth upon the unsuspecting students who are forced to quarantine and make necessary sacrifices, or risk infecting the rest of the world.

Val Kilmer
Dr. David Kruipen

Martha MacIsaac
Evelyn Kruipen

Aaron Ashmore
Atom Galen

Kyle Schmid
Federico Fulce

Viv Leacock
Bart
Steph Song
Ling Chen

Anne Marie DeLuise
Dr. Jane Sanders
John Callander
Edward
Lamech Kadloo
Nuti

Evan Adams
Professor Anderson
The Thaw is a horror, science fiction film released in 2009 exploring themes of quarantine, parasite. Directed by Mark A. Lewis, it stars Val Kilmer, Martha MacIsaac, Aaron Ashmore. At a remote Arctic research station, four ecology students discover the real horror of global warming is not the melting ice, but what's frozen within it. A prehistoric parasite is released from the carcass of a Woolly Mammoth upon the unsuspecting students who are forced to quarantine and make necessary sacrifices, or risk infecting the rest of the world.
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