SOMETIMES THEY COME BACK...FOR MORE
Worst title ever?  Maybe.

  This movie starts like The Thing, and ends like The Prophecy, and nothing in between convinced me that this was actually a thought-out plot.  Despite there being two writers working on this (including one Adam Grossman; anyone know if that's the same guy who was the frontman for Skrew?), I'm left with the unshakable impression that everything was just made up from scene to scene.

The box insists that this is based on the story Sometimes They Come Back by Stephen King, and sure enough, it's titled and packaged as a second sequel to the TV movie that it gave rise to.  But gimme a break, I can't find any connecting threads here to either of its predecessors, let alone King's story.  Anyone else who can think of some is welcome to let me know.  Okay, I admit, I barely remember any of 'em.

The last surviving members of a top-secret Antarctic mining base understandably need help after one of them went nuts and killed just about everybody.  So here comes the cavalry, a few U.S. military folks who, thanks to the storm outside, just drop in and try to keep these guys safe from the skulking menace in the snow until even more help can arrive.  After that, things get weird, yet unimaginatively weird (for example, there's one scene where points on a map are linked up to show...yup, you guessed it).  The story tries hard to surprise, but all its twists are met with a yawn, and maybe a "Huh?" if we're lucky.

Trying to accept Faith "Corky Sherwood" Ford as somebody who can actually survive in Antarctica is hard enough; I don't need to be burdened with extra head-scratchers like this plot where the best reason they can think of for somebody going nuts and killing people at an Antarctic outpost is that he's doing Satan's bidding.  There's the obligatory three-second transition from "I'm afraid of you" to "Kiss me hard!" and in the end, it all wraps up with a rather dumb love-conquers-all climax, though I guess it's done better here than it was in The Matrix (could it possibly have been done worse than I-love-you-therefore-the-good-guys-win?).

Also known as Frozen and in Australia, Ice Station Erebus, which at least gives lie to the notion that this is really a sequel, for better or worse.  

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