A quality horror film, unlike any other

Rating: 8/10 (24 July 2002)

In the first scene of this movie, a helicopter crests an icy ridge. It moves closer and we see a man leaning out of it. He's watching a dog running below, leaping desperately through deep snow. The man puts down his binoculars, picks up a rifle, starts shooting at the dog. When I saw this as a kid, I was hypnotized: why were they hunting that dog? A dreadful foreboding hangs over this film from first shot to last, long after that question is answered.
The music is eerie and good. The acting is good too---everyone took the movie seriously and each adds something different. I love above everything else the atmosphere: blackness and whiteness, the blackness of night and the whiteness of snowy, isolated Antarctica---the backdrop for these men's bizarre nightmare.
A powerful and unique film and very scary film.