FilmRSci-Fi Horror Monster & Creature Survival

New Alcatraz2001

Name: New Alcatraz
Genre: Sci-Fi Horror, Monster & Creature, Survival
Released: 2001-12-07
Rating: 4

“100 Feet of Prehistoric Terror”

Directed by Phillip J. Roth

4.0

Crypt Score

Blended from 2 sources

IMDb 3.4TMDB 3.9

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Year

2001

Runtime

95 min

Box Office

Budget

$1,200,000

The premise

Paleontologist Robert Trenton is called to Northeastern Antarctica near the Indian Ocean to help the FBI build an underground maximum-security military base and prison for the world's most dangerous criminals and terrorists, which is dubbed "New Alcatrax" by the staff. While building the prison, the staff accidentally awaken and unleash a prehistoric Boa Constrictor from its 200 year hibernation.

Horror Vault's take

Deep beneath the Antarctic ice, an ambitious underground prison project disturbs something that should have stayed buried — a colossal prehistoric boa constrictor awakened from centuries of hibernation. With hardened criminals on one side and a massive predator on the other, a paleontologist finds himself caught in a deadly game of survival in the world's most remote location. The frozen wasteland above offers no easy escape, and the creature below has had 200 years of hunger to work through.

Content: Animal Attack Sequences, Creature Violence, Mild Gore