FilmSci-Fi Horror Monster & Creature Comedy Horror

Mammoth2006

Name: Mammoth
Genre: Sci-Fi Horror, Monster & Creature, Comedy Horror
Released: 2006-04-22
Rating: 4.1

“We hunted it into extinction... Now it's hunting us.”

Directed by Abram Cox

4.1

Crypt Score

Blended from 2 sources

IMDb 3.6TMDB 4.5

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Year

2006

Runtime

90 min

Box Office

Budget

$2,300,000

🏆 Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy. 1 nomination total

The premise

On a hot summer afternoon in the sleepy town of Blackwater Louisiana, a meteor streaks across the sky and crashes through the roof of the local Natural History Museum. The meteor is actually a spaceship containing an alien life form which animates the museum's partially frozen Woolly Mammoth and begins a rampage. Local authorities and Government Investigators join forces with Frank Abernathy, the Museum Curator, and his father Simon, a B-Movie enthusiast, to bring down the giant mammoth in this alien-invasion flick!

Horror Vault's take

When a meteor crashes into a sleepy Louisiana town's Natural History Museum, something far stranger than space rock has arrived — and the museum's long-frozen woolly mammoth is about to make a very lively comeback. A ragtag crew of locals, government agents, and one very enthusiastic B-movie fan must band together to face a threat that is equal parts prehistoric and extraterrestrial. Think small-town disaster movie crossed with a classic creature feature, served with a generous side of self-aware cheese. It's the kind of film that knows exactly what it is and leans into every ridiculous, stomping moment.

Content: Creature Violence, Mild Gore