Val Kilmer and Martha MacIsaac are set to star in a new sci-fi/horror film titled “The Thaw.”   Mary Anne Waterhouse, the film’s Co-Producer, states,
“It’s more horror than Sci-fii.  It’s much more of a traditional scary movie.  We wanted to make an entertainment film, but we also want to make socially relevant films.”

The plot centers on MacIsaac’s character, Evelyn Kruipen, leading a group of students to the Arctic on a research mission along with her father, Dr. Kruipen (Kilmer).  The team finds that Global Warming has caused the polar ice-caps to begin melting which releases a parasite infested wooly mammoth corpse from the ice.  The mammoth’s remains become a meal for a polar bear and an infection upon the rest of the world is imminent.  The group finds themselves cut off in an unforgiving territory with a killer that has the potential to destroy all of humanity if it’s not contained.

Filming for the movie is scheduled to start at the end of June, in Vancouver’s Alkali Lake area, and is expected to last for three weeks.  Principal photography will begin around June 16 in the Williams lake area, it is expected to last two weeks.