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    Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L.: Wasn't there an episode of that really crappy Godzilla cartoon where they stumbled upon a German U-Boat trapped in an iceberg? more »
    joetato: Quintet is a science fiction story starring Paul Newman set during the next ice age where glaciers are slowly destroying the world and the survivors p... more »
    AmishJohn: Why not link to "A Colder War", so people can read it? [www.infinityplus.co.uk] more »
    Lassus: AHA! I have something to contribute to the triviagasm, albeit too late for anyone to read it: In Banks' "Matter" they unfreeze an Iln from beneath t... more »
    Perhaps Not: Also noteworthy: Hellboy, in which Rasputin emerges, Busby Berkeley-like, from a pool of blood in an icy mountain cavern. more »
    Kpibca: WHAT world-destroying powers? Megatron got whipped by Louis Stevens! more »
    byers: If you're mentioning the X-Files, you should mention the episode "Ice" from the first season, which was a whole story centered around mind controlling... more »
    disatess: where I can I find that lovecraft book, who goes there had a wonderful ending ...watch the skies . more »
    Burke: Wrong Mammoth, I think. more »
    bluehinter: Oh, and there's also the Epideme Virus from Red Dwarf: A sentient virus that slowly kills, then zombifies it's host, and can freeze itself solid insid... more »
    bluehinter: In addition to the previously mentioned Ice Warriors and Krynoids, Doctor Who has spawned a plenty of other frosty villains. Way back during the v... more »
    starfury5: Ya know, I hate when people refer to all stop-motion animation as "claymation". Harryhausen's (and 1933 King Kong SFX master Willis Obrien's) creatur... more »
    Bill-Lee: My favorite movie feature something being thawed from the ice, is the 1984 science fiction film Iceman. In that movie, scientists thaw an ice age hunt... more »
    joetato: The Deadly Mantis is another film where a big monster (giant preying mantis) thaws out and starts eating people. Another forgotten flick under the ic... more »
    braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.: HAHA ANNALEE I DON'T KNOW IF ANYONE TOLD YOU BUT THAT IS THE WRONG MAMMOTH TRAILER I THINK! more »
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