During a raging storm, a research team arrives by helicopter, forced to land due to an even worse storm approaching, sent by Geotech to investigate the death of a worker named Lenny, the disappearance of workers Carl and Lippski, and mysterious tremors hitting the area, hoping to learn the cause of these events before the arrival of a United Nations investigation team who might shut down the base.

[2] He concluded, "It’s got a few thrills, a few unintentional laughs, and a bunch of exterior stock footage from The Thing, but there’s a certain amount of depth to the characters and there are no wannabe scream queens in the cast, which is a blessing.

He notes that the plot makes no attempt to explain how the creature is able to roam so freely and so quickly for a large and slow beast.

He concludes that the film "takes itself way too seriously given the silly concept of a killer prehistoric roach", writing that it appeared that "Buechler was trying to make a 1950’s style creature feature but mistakenly chose to go about things with the mentality of a modern slasher flick".

Despite being directed by a guy that has created more than his fair share of gory effects for the movies, Ice Crawlers is surprisingly anemic.

"[3] Scott Weinberg of eFilmCritic Reviews noted that "Roger Corman is still churning out the schlock," writing that "Ice Crawlers (a.k.a.