Yet another one of the films I picked up at Hollywood Video's closeout for a cheap price, knowing that there was little risk in buying it. Even still, the risk of a couple bucks and an hour and a half didn't quite seem worth it.
The film starts off with an uncomfortably irrational military scene in which a helicopter destroys a bunch of other military vehicles and transports its cargo, a canister holding a frozen woman, to another location. After a few backstabbings, it winds up on a plane with its key researcher and a militant a***ole who would pass off for a villain. Yet another double cross is about to happen when the girl completely transforms into a blue-skinned demonic creature, rips the would-be villains hand off, and freezes him from the inside out.
There are a few things about this movie.
1) Homo Erctus looked exactly like Homo Sapien.
2) You can still have perfect, clean, vibrant blond hair after being frozen for thousands of years.
3) Homo Erectus was actually a blue-skinned monster with magical abilities to freeze its opponents from the inside out. It also had long talons and liked to seduce anything that was cold by licking its talons and rubbing them along its breasts.
After the above mentioned event, the plane crashes, causing an avalanche to enclose a ski resort. The Ice Queen and the researcher escape, and the former of the two begins attacking the survivors of the avalanche, freezing them to death one by one.
All in all, the film is silly, but not silly enough to be entertaining. The acting is pretty much a miss, and the film lacked any sense of suspense or tension. The villain also seemed very standard, like anything you would see in a rental, although some of the ideas around the villain were different. I do have to say that the special effects were also nicely done given the low budget. They didn't even bother throwing in a bunch of pointless, cheap CG that would have looked good on a PS1 game, but managed quite well with what they had. All in all, I say skip it.