| Cacique Caribe | 31 Jul 2018 7:16 a.m. PST |
There seem to be a few recent Horror/SF movies/shows about some deadly pathogen coming out the melting permafrost or a glacier because of man-made "Global Warming" and infecting humans. Let's make a list. I'll start it off with these two: - The Thaw (2009)
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- Blood Glacier (2013)
YouTube link 1) Know of any others?
2) Have you used the premise to inspire your gaming? If so, how? Dan
NOTE – I truly wish I could include the following, but they really had nothing to do with man-made Climate Change ("Global Warming") melting the glaciers or permafrost …
The coolest of the early X-Files episodes (Ice, S1-E8, 1993):
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And one of the best Horror/SF remakes of all time, The Thing (1982):
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| Prince Alberts Revenge | 31 Jul 2018 7:58 a.m. PST |
The Netflix series Fortitude deals with something similar. A thawed mammoth carcass carries some kind of lily-borne virus or parasite that bites and infects humans causing them to go slightly nutters. Good, dark series with a remote setting. |
| Chalfant | 31 Jul 2018 8:08 a.m. PST |
Not sure if this fits, and it is definitely "different", but maybe worth taking a look at… The Last Winter
YouTube link For the record, I liked it, but its not a great film. Chalfant |
 x42brown  | 31 Jul 2018 8:59 a.m. PST |
As it seems to have started link it might be a good thing to game. x42 |
| MajorB | 31 Jul 2018 10:26 a.m. PST |
I thought it was called Climate Change now? |
| Insomniac | 31 Jul 2018 12:03 p.m. PST |
This video shows methane that is in frozen lakes: YouTube link With climate change warming up the ice and thawing out glaciers, all of the trapped methane will start to escape… accelerating the warming effect (and possibly causing explosive moments, here and there). Who needs viruses or pathogens when we have a perfectly destructive release of methane? |
| ROUWetPatchBehindTheSofa | 31 Jul 2018 12:47 p.m. PST |
To be honest bacteria frozen in ice are massively unlikely to be that interested in us having been nowhere near us (at least initially). I'd suggest the entirely mundane diseases that follow disposed humanity around are likely to do way more damage than anything released from the ice as humanity abandons uninhabitable chunks of the planet with rising temperatures in a series of unprecedented migrations… |
| Mobius | 31 Jul 2018 4:19 p.m. PST |
Isn't global warming the villain in these stories and not the pathogen? Correction, those that enable global warming. |
| haywire | 31 Jul 2018 5:05 p.m. PST |
I haven't watched it so I do not know the specifics, but Netflix's "The Rain" maybe? I also forget where "The Stuff" and "Phantoms" came from… And on the "Not really answering the question…" You cant forget "The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms!" |
| zircher | 31 Jul 2018 7:21 p.m. PST |
It's called global warming in the summer when it is hot and climate change in the winter so they don't get laughed at as much. |
| Cacique Caribe | 01 Aug 2018 11:30 a.m. PST |
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shows one way to base 15mm figures on a stand.