As if climate change weren’t worrying enough, studies show it’s leading to an uptick in the production of cheesy German-language monster flicks. Case in point: “Blood Glacier.”
A sluggish reworking of “The Thing,” this import stars Gerhard Liebmann as the leader of a team of scientists studying a melting Alpine glacier when a series of animal bites lead to recombined DNA, resulting in such animals as a beetle-fox.
The movie alternates between scenes of the scientists bickering and sudden bloody attacks from increasingly bizarre creatures. Director Marvin Kren delivers a lot of cheap scares, but the film doesn’t approach the dread-soaked suspense of the 1982 version of “The Thing.”