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    It Came From Beneath the Ice To Destroy the World!

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    Image of Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L. Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L.
    08/18/09

    In reply to It Came From Beneath the Ice To Destroy the World!
    Wasn't there an episode of that really crappy Godzilla cartoon where they stumbled upon a German U-Boat trapped in an iceberg?
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    Image of joetato joetato
    08/18/09

    In reply to It Came From Beneath the Ice To Destroy the World!
    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 play a murder game called Quintet to keep busy, while civilization is dying under the advancing snows and ice.
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    Image of AmishJohn AmishJohn
    08/17/09

    In reply to It Came From Beneath the Ice To Destroy the World!
    Why not link to "A Colder War", so people can read it?

    [www.infinityplus.co.uk]
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    Image of Lassus Lassus
    08/17/09

    In reply to It Came From Beneath the Ice To Destroy the World!
    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 the Nameless City that JUST ABOUT manages to destroy the shellworld of Sursamen!
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    08/17/09

    @Lassus: Oh, good one! I had forgotten about the freezy part of that story. The frozen waterfall is such a good image, too.
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    08/17/09


    @Annalee Newitz: I think the reason it stuck with me is that I was at Gullfoss in Iceland this past November:
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    Image of Perhaps Not Perhaps Not
    08/17/09

    In reply to It Came From Beneath the Ice To Destroy the World!
    Also noteworthy: Hellboy, in which Rasputin emerges, Busby Berkeley-like, from a pool of blood in an icy mountain cavern.
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    Image of Kpibca Kpibca
    08/17/09

    In reply to It Came From Beneath the Ice To Destroy the World!
    WHAT world-destroying powers? Megatron got whipped by Louis Stevens!
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    Image of byers byers
    08/17/09

    In reply to It Came From Beneath the Ice To Destroy the World!
    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 worms from beneath the ice, as opposed to the X-Files movie, where it was more of a footnote, and hardly any monster action.
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    08/18/09

    @byers: I remember hearing an interview with Chris Carter where he said that this episode was inspired by The Thing!
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    08/17/09

    In reply to It Came From Beneath the Ice To Destroy the World!
    where I can I find that lovecraft book, who goes there had a wonderful ending ...watch the skies .
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    Image of Burke Burke
    08/17/09

    In reply to It Came From Beneath the Ice To Destroy the World!
    Wrong Mammoth, I think.
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    08/17/09

    @Burke: Yup... let me fix!
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    08/17/09

    @Charlie Jane Anders: Correct Mammoth clip, Activate!!
    Improvement YAY?!
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    Image of bluehinter bluehinter
    08/17/09

    In reply to It Came From Beneath the Ice To Destroy the World!
    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 inside a block of ice when no other humans are around to snack on.
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    08/17/09

    In reply to It Came From Beneath the Ice To Destroy the World!



    In addition to the previously mentioned Ice Warriors and Krynoids, Doctor Who has spawned a plenty of other frosty villains.

    Way back during the very first season, while searching for the Keys of Marinus in a frozen wasteland, Ian, Barbara and Susan encountered a trio of "mechanized ice soldiers" trapped inside solid blocks of ice that they had to defrost in order to retrieve said key.

    Then there were the infamous Cybermen, who froze themselves in an enormous ice tomb on Telos as part of a well thought out plan to become the supreme rulers of the universe, by hiding in a massive refrigerator buried in the middle of an inhospitable desert planet and hoping that some day intelligent beings would be curious enough to dig them up.

    Not to be outdone, the Daleks attempt a similar plan in Planet of the Daleks by using the ice volcanos of the planet Spiridon to keep their massive invasion force minty fresh until it's time to invade Earth.

    Finally, proving that revenge really is a dish best served cold, we've got Kane-- Ruthless super-criminal and intergalactic fruit salesman. Though fabulously wealthy, and leader of an entire army of cryogenically frozen mercenaries, Kane dicks around for over a millenium on the permanently frozen half of Ice World, where apparently, it never occured to him to purchase another spaceship. By the time he eventually gets around to setting a course for his home planet of Proamnon, he realises he has been a prisoner so long that the planet no longer exists.Realizing that nobody has been reading his mopey LiveJournal entires for over six centuries, he decides to do the only honorable thing and perform his impression of what happens when you accidentally leave one of your action man figures face-down on the radiator.
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    08/17/09

    In reply to It Came From Beneath the Ice To Destroy the World!
    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) creatures were not made of clay.

    The "monsters" from these stop-motion masterpieces were built on metal armatures, which were extremely intricate. Often they were filled with cotton or other material, then covered in latex.

    No clay in sight.
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    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    08/17/09

    In reply to It Came From Beneath the Ice To Destroy the World!
    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 hunter and he is not the monster. The monsters are the scientists who want study him like a lab rat.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    08/17/09

    @Bill-Lee: Loved that one. As a fellow hapa, I had great expectations for John Lone. Too bad he priced himself out of the market.
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    Image of joetato joetato
    08/17/09

    In reply to It Came From Beneath the Ice To Destroy the World!
    The Deadly Mantis is another film where a big monster (giant preying mantis) thaws out and starts eating people. Another forgotten flick under the ice is The Land Unkown, where a jungle oasis exists with dinosaurs and other monsters in a secluded valley in the Antarctic. Enjoy!
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    Image of Hamslicer Hamslicer
    08/17/09

    @joetato: ahh, one of my favorites
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    Image of braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
    08/17/09

    In reply to It Came From Beneath the Ice To Destroy the World!
    HAHA ANNALEE I DON'T KNOW IF ANYONE TOLD YOU BUT THAT IS THE WRONG MAMMOTH TRAILER I THINK!
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    08/17/09

    @braak: I LIKE SAYIN "HAHA" TOO!
    HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!
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    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    08/17/09

    @braak: yeah, and after watching that trailer I have to say I'll take the alien mind controll woolly mammoth movie was way more coherent than I'm guessing that indie melodrama must be.
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