The Colony (2013)
One day, it started to snow .. and it never stopped
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The Colony rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic
IMDb5.3/10· 48K votes
Rotten Tomatoes18%
Metacritic28%
TMDb5.468/10· 1K votesWith 18% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 5.3/10 on IMDb and 28/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been modest.
About The Colony
Forced underground by the next ice age, a struggling outpost of survivors must fight to preserve humanity against a threat even more savage than nature.
Cast of The Colony
Kevin Zegers
as Sam
Laurence Fishburne
as Briggs
Bill Paxton
as Mason
Charlotte Sullivan
as Kai
John Tench
as Viktor
Atticus Mitchell
as Graydon
Dru Viergever
as Feral Leader
Romano Orzari
as Reynolds
Earl Pastko
as Scientist
Lisa Berry
as Nara
Lucius Hoyos
as Rowan
Michael Mando
as Cooper
The Colony facts
- Budget
- $16M
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Audience opinions
What the audience liked
- •Dystopian ice age premise delivers sci-fi thriller concept
- •Global warming allegory provides contemporary thematic resonance
- •Cannibal subplot adds transgressive survival horror element
What the audience disliked
- •Starvation-focused narrative becomes relentlessly bleak
- •Survival thriller formula lacks character differentiation depth
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