<![CDATA[io9: mammoth]]> http://tags.lifehacker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/io9.com.png <![CDATA[io9: mammoth]]> http://io9.com/tag/mammoth http://io9.com/tag/mammoth <![CDATA[Worst Batman Will Star In Eco-Monster Movie]]> Val Kilmer is going to Vancouver to shoot an eco-thriller, The Thaw. The story follows a group of students that discover an ancient parasite frozen inside a prehistoric wooly mammoth. The parasite comes back to life as the mammoth is thawed out, threatening the students and possibly spreading across the world. Actress Martha McIsaac (Superbad) will play Kilmer's daughter. More details on the parasitic monster after the jump.

Director Mark Lewis tells Dread Central that the parasitic monster was inspired by bed bugs and how vulnerable we all really are to Mother Nature. Although this an eco-thriller Lewis warns it won't get preachy at all.

Lewis also shares a little detail about the hairless monsters and how much CGI will be used.

Fortunately the aforementioned parasite doesn't have any hair, and we've partnered with a terrific VFX company. The tests have been amazing. I've never seen anything like it. It's going to be very creepy to say the least.

Shooting is starting this spring, I look forward to the mammoth thawing, but can it possibly be as great as the alien-possessed undead mammoth from the Sci Fi Channel movie? [The Province and Dread Central]

]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=391360&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Ravers Crushed By E.T.-Controlled Vampire Mammoth]]> A bunch of innocent teens are raving in the forest when . . . they're trampled by a giant woolly mammoth, re-animated after thousands of years in ice by an alien implant that tells it to KILL KILL. Summer Glau, whose powers of acting have been used more wisely in Firefly and upcoming Sarah Connor Chronicles, is the teen whose geek dad wants to save the mammoth because (you guessed it) IT COULD BE THE SCIENTIFIC PHENOMENON OF THE MILLENNIUM.

The best part of this made-for-SciFi Channel movie is that they couldn't stop with undead mammoth; they even couldn't stop with alien-controlled undead mammoth; no, they had to make it a vampire undead alien-controlled mammoth. At the end of this clip, you can see the mammoth sucking life force out of the special agent. Using its trunk. What kind of drugs enabled this pitch meeting? Seriously, I need to know so I can take some.

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