Showing posts with label DNA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DNA. Show all posts

Sunday, April 10, 2011

Ice Queen

If you had been in a state of suspended animation for several hundreds of years and then came out of hibernation in a lot of pain, wouldn't you go postal on everyone that you laid eyes on?    I know I would.  And that is how the Ice Queen behaves, for the most part, too.
 
A convoy carrying a barrel of bio-hazard material is targeted for an ambush.  The convoy is shot at by a helicopter and luckily the one vehicle containing the barrel is intact.  Otherwise we would have a very short movie.  The contents of the barrel is the ice queen.  She is being transported by plane and the pilot has other ideas for the ice queen.  Too bad the ice queen has ideas of her own, like ripping off the pilots forearm and then freezing him from the inside out.
 
Enter in the main characters of the story.  Johnny, who is the lovable hunk.  Elaine, the buxom girl who is always too cold, if you know what I mean.  And the others.  Johnny and his friends work at a ski lodge.  It is the day after the season ended and they are out trying to clear some of the avalanche potentials.  But when the ice queen takes off the pilot's arm, the only other person on the plane is the doctor who is studying her and he doesn't exactly know how to fly a plane.  So it crashes and sends a large avalanche to destroy the lodge.
 
Long story short, the ice queen begins taking out the people that work at the lodge.  She reigns until Johnny manages to lure her into the hot tub at the lodge.  No quality kill scenes.  And only one line that really stuck out.  "Out of my way doc, it's showtime in Bitchtown," said by Johnny's boss as she goes after the ice queen.  There is a terrible cat fight scene between Johnny's girl and Elaine.  And another scene when Johnny's girl attempts to attack the ice queen with a ladle.  That should give you an idea on what kind of film you are watching.
 
I give this movie 1 out of 5 hot tub scenes.

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Mansquito

Yawn.  Very similar premise as The Fly.  But instead of the fly DNA being altered in a matter transporter, the mosquito DNA was altered by radiation.
 
An inmate sentenced to death row, waved certain rights to become a test subject at Bellion Pharmaceuticals.  There, Dr. Jennifer is trying to come up with a cure for a virus that is being transmitted via mosquitoes.  The inmate gets loose, makes his way into the lab, shots are fired, and there is a radiation explosion.  The inmate gets most of the radiation and transforms into Mansquito rather quickly.
 
He begins to feed on people around him.  Nobody is safe.  Not even an ex-girlfriend of his.  Several people at a club, some bums in an underground tunnel.  The victims just keep piling up.
 
Meanwhile, Dr. Jenny who didn't show any initial signs of being infected, now starts to have mosquito-like tendencies.  Lots of carnage later, she ends up in the tunnel system with Mansquito and they are electrocuted.  Sorry to give away the ending.
 
There are a few good kill scenes in the movie, but they do not happen until the end.  One guy gets the top of his head sliced off.  And there are several fountains of blood that were formerly police officers.
 
Anytime you can get someone to put on a ridiculous insect costume, you are in for a treat.
 
I give this movie 1 1/2 out of 5 radiation labs.