Mammoth (film)
Encyclopedia
Mammoth is a 2006 feature film directed by Tim Cox
and produced by Plinyminor
in association with the Sci Fi Channel
starring Vincent Ventresca
, Summer Glau
, Leila Arcieri
and Tom Skerritt
. The film was nominated for a 2006 Emmy Award
for Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special
.
of the natural history
museum
in Blackwater, Louisiana
, and a widower who doesn't seem to have time for his daughter Jack. Frank's father, Simon, is a B-movie
enthusiast who believes in extraterrestrials and shows off the movies in the local theater to Jack (his grand-daughter) and her rather adventurous boyfriend Squirrelly. One day, the whole city is not working without electricity
and as Simon, Jack, and Squirrelly exit the theater, the citizens watch a mysterious object streaking through the sky and then crashes into the museum. The object, thought to be a meteor
, is later revealed to be a craft containing some sort of alien lifeform. In order to adapt to the Earth
's atmosphere
, it latches on to the first organism
it comes in contact with - the museum's most notable exhibit, a partially frozen
Wooly mammoth.
A security guard witnesses the revival of the prehistoric elephant, which breaks out of its icy tomb and kills the guard. With the rampaging creature on the loose, two government
agents, Powers and Whitaker, tracked the caretaker of the mammoth, Frank. While the agents and Frank try to figure out what happened, the mammoth stalked the dark forests and killed any human being that encounters it. The beast's carnage soon brought it to a huge party
where Jack and Squirrelly are in attendence.
Jack and Squirrelly survived the destructive onslaught of the mammoth, and meet up with Frank and the agents. The mammoth appears before them, and kills Agent Whitaker while Agent Powers, Frank, Jack, and Squirrelly managed to survive the behemoth's wrath. While the mammoth continued its rampage, both in and out of the town's streets, the government is preparing to unleash a nuclear holocaust
on the alien-possessed elephant, forcing the group to find a way to take down the creature.
After coming up with a plan to stop the mammoth, Frank, Agent Powers, Jack, and Squirrelly are joined by Simon and town sheriff
Marion Morrison as they head to the local factory
to encase the creature in ice
just like it was before the lifeform possessed it. While on route, Squirrelly is murdered by the mammoth, much to Jack's horror, but the plan went full-speed ahead. The hate-filled juggernaut arrives at the factory, and after doused by molten
steel
, it slaughters Sheriff Morrison (off-screen). It is now known that liquid nitrogen
is the only thing to stop the mammoth once and for all. The behemoth is then lured into a trap as the liquid nitrogen is prepared. Frank, Jack, and Agent Powers, among survivors, escape as Simon sacrifice
s himself to use the release valve and smash the controls that forced out the liquid nitrogen that freezes both Simon and the mammoth.
The movie ends as Simon's frozen body is kept in government hands, and the mammoth, now in a block of ice, is put back into exhibition
.
Tim Cox
Tim Cox is director and screenwriter whose primary work consists of Sci Fi Pictures original films. He began his career as a storyboard artist for commercials and music videos.-Selected credits:*Mammoth...
and produced by Plinyminor
Plinyminor
Plinyminor is an entertainment production company with offices in London and Baton Rouge. Founded by serial technology entrepreneur Richard D. Titus and producer Tavin Marin Titus....
in association with the Sci Fi Channel
Sci Fi Channel (United States)
Syfy , formerly known as the Sci-Fi Channel and SCI FI, is an American cable television channel featuring science fiction, supernatural, fantasy, reality, paranormal, wrestling, and horror programming. Launched on September 24, 1992, it is part of the entertainment conglomerate NBCUniversal, a...
starring Vincent Ventresca
Vincent Ventresca
Vincent Paul Gerard Ventresca is an American actor, best known for playing Darien Fawkes on SCI FI's The Invisible Man .-Early years:...
, Summer Glau
Summer Glau
Summer Lyn Glau is an American actress, known for playing River Tam in the science fiction series Firefly and follow-up film Serenity, and for playing Cameron in the series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.-Early life:...
, Leila Arcieri
Leila Arcieri
Leila C. Arcieri is an American actress and model. She was Miss San Francisco in the 1997 Miss California pageant and has appeared in many films such as xXx, Wild Things 2, and Daddy Day Care.-Early life:...
and Tom Skerritt
Tom Skerritt
Thomas Roy "Tom" Skerritt is an American actor who has appeared in over 40 films and more than 200 television episodes since 1962.-Early life:...
. The film was nominated for a 2006 Emmy Award
58th Primetime Emmy Awards
The 58th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards were held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California on Sunday, August 27, 2006 on NBC at 8:00pm ET with Conan O'Brien hosting the show...
for Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special
Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects
This is a list of the winning and nominated programs of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects in a television series, miniseries, or television movie...
.
Plot
Frank Abernathy is the curatorCurator
A curator is a manager or overseer. Traditionally, a curator or keeper of a cultural heritage institution is a content specialist responsible for an institution's collections and involved with the interpretation of heritage material...
of the natural history
Natural history
Natural history is the scientific research of plants or animals, leaning more towards observational rather than experimental methods of study, and encompasses more research published in magazines than in academic journals. Grouped among the natural sciences, natural history is the systematic study...
museum
Museum
A museum is an institution that cares for a collection of artifacts and other objects of scientific, artistic, cultural, or historical importance and makes them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. Most large museums are located in major cities...
in Blackwater, Louisiana
Louisiana
Louisiana is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans. Louisiana is the only state in the U.S. with political subdivisions termed parishes, which are local governments equivalent to counties...
, and a widower who doesn't seem to have time for his daughter Jack. Frank's father, Simon, is a B-movie
B-movie
A B movie is a low-budget commercial motion picture that is not definitively an arthouse or pornographic film. In its original usage, during the Golden Age of Hollywood, the term more precisely identified a film intended for distribution as the less-publicized, bottom half of a double feature....
enthusiast who believes in extraterrestrials and shows off the movies in the local theater to Jack (his grand-daughter) and her rather adventurous boyfriend Squirrelly. One day, the whole city is not working without electricity
Electricity
Electricity is a general term encompassing a variety of phenomena resulting from the presence and flow of electric charge. These include many easily recognizable phenomena, such as lightning, static electricity, and the flow of electrical current in an electrical wire...
and as Simon, Jack, and Squirrelly exit the theater, the citizens watch a mysterious object streaking through the sky and then crashes into the museum. The object, thought to be a meteor
METEOR
METEOR is a metric for the evaluation of machine translation output. The metric is based on the harmonic mean of unigram precision and recall, with recall weighted higher than precision...
, is later revealed to be a craft containing some sort of alien lifeform. In order to adapt to the Earth
Earth
Earth is the third planet from the Sun, and the densest and fifth-largest of the eight planets in the Solar System. It is also the largest of the Solar System's four terrestrial planets...
's atmosphere
Atmosphere
An atmosphere is a layer of gases that may surround a material body of sufficient mass, and that is held in place by the gravity of the body. An atmosphere may be retained for a longer duration, if the gravity is high and the atmosphere's temperature is low...
, it latches on to the first organism
Organism
In biology, an organism is any contiguous living system . In at least some form, all organisms are capable of response to stimuli, reproduction, growth and development, and maintenance of homoeostasis as a stable whole.An organism may either be unicellular or, as in the case of humans, comprise...
it comes in contact with - the museum's most notable exhibit, a partially frozen
Frozen
Frozen may refer to:* the result of freezingIn film:* Frozen , a film by Wang Xiaoshuai* Frozen , a film by Juliet McKoen* Frozen , a film by Shivajee Chandrabhushan...
Wooly mammoth.
A security guard witnesses the revival of the prehistoric elephant, which breaks out of its icy tomb and kills the guard. With the rampaging creature on the loose, two government
Government
Government refers to the legislators, administrators, and arbitrators in the administrative bureaucracy who control a state at a given time, and to the system of government by which they are organized...
agents, Powers and Whitaker, tracked the caretaker of the mammoth, Frank. While the agents and Frank try to figure out what happened, the mammoth stalked the dark forests and killed any human being that encounters it. The beast's carnage soon brought it to a huge party
Party
A party is a gathering of people who have been invited by a host for the purposes of socializing, conversation, or recreation. A party will typically feature food and beverages, and often music and dancing as well....
where Jack and Squirrelly are in attendence.
Jack and Squirrelly survived the destructive onslaught of the mammoth, and meet up with Frank and the agents. The mammoth appears before them, and kills Agent Whitaker while Agent Powers, Frank, Jack, and Squirrelly managed to survive the behemoth's wrath. While the mammoth continued its rampage, both in and out of the town's streets, the government is preparing to unleash a nuclear holocaust
Nuclear holocaust
Nuclear holocaust refers to the possibility of the near complete annihilation of human civilization by nuclear warfare. Under such a scenario, all or most of the Earth is made uninhabitable by nuclear weapons in future world wars....
on the alien-possessed elephant, forcing the group to find a way to take down the creature.
After coming up with a plan to stop the mammoth, Frank, Agent Powers, Jack, and Squirrelly are joined by Simon and town sheriff
Sheriff
A sheriff is in principle a legal official with responsibility for a county. In practice, the specific combination of legal, political, and ceremonial duties of a sheriff varies greatly from country to country....
Marion Morrison as they head to the local factory
Factory
A factory or manufacturing plant is an industrial building where laborers manufacture goods or supervise machines processing one product into another. Most modern factories have large warehouses or warehouse-like facilities that contain heavy equipment used for assembly line production...
to encase the creature in ice
Ice
Ice is water frozen into the solid state. Usually ice is the phase known as ice Ih, which is the most abundant of the varying solid phases on the Earth's surface. It can appear transparent or opaque bluish-white color, depending on the presence of impurities or air inclusions...
just like it was before the lifeform possessed it. While on route, Squirrelly is murdered by the mammoth, much to Jack's horror, but the plan went full-speed ahead. The hate-filled juggernaut arrives at the factory, and after doused by molten
Mölten
Mölten is a comune in South Tyrol in the Italian region Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, located about 60 km north of Trento and about 12 km northwest of Bolzano .-Geography:...
steel
Steel
Steel is an alloy that consists mostly of iron and has a carbon content between 0.2% and 2.1% by weight, depending on the grade. Carbon is the most common alloying material for iron, but various other alloying elements are used, such as manganese, chromium, vanadium, and tungsten...
, it slaughters Sheriff Morrison (off-screen). It is now known that liquid nitrogen
Liquid nitrogen
Liquid nitrogen is nitrogen in a liquid state at a very low temperature. It is produced industrially by fractional distillation of liquid air. Liquid nitrogen is a colourless clear liquid with density of 0.807 g/mL at its boiling point and a dielectric constant of 1.4...
is the only thing to stop the mammoth once and for all. The behemoth is then lured into a trap as the liquid nitrogen is prepared. Frank, Jack, and Agent Powers, among survivors, escape as Simon sacrifice
Sacrifice
Sacrifice is the offering of food, objects or the lives of animals or people to God or the gods as an act of propitiation or worship.While sacrifice often implies ritual killing, the term offering can be used for bloodless sacrifices of cereal food or artifacts...
s himself to use the release valve and smash the controls that forced out the liquid nitrogen that freezes both Simon and the mammoth.
The movie ends as Simon's frozen body is kept in government hands, and the mammoth, now in a block of ice, is put back into exhibition
Exhibition
An exhibition, in the most general sense, is an organized presentation and display of a selection of items. In practice, exhibitions usually occur within museums, galleries and exhibition halls, and World's Fairs...
.
Starring
- Tom SkerrittTom SkerrittThomas Roy "Tom" Skerritt is an American actor who has appeared in over 40 films and more than 200 television episodes since 1962.-Early life:...
as Simon Abernathy - Vincent VentrescaVincent VentrescaVincent Paul Gerard Ventresca is an American actor, best known for playing Darien Fawkes on SCI FI's The Invisible Man .-Early years:...
as Dr. Frank Abernathy - Summer GlauSummer GlauSummer Lyn Glau is an American actress, known for playing River Tam in the science fiction series Firefly and follow-up film Serenity, and for playing Cameron in the series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.-Early life:...
as Jack Abernathy - Leila ArcieriLeila ArcieriLeila C. Arcieri is an American actress and model. She was Miss San Francisco in the 1997 Miss California pageant and has appeared in many films such as xXx, Wild Things 2, and Daddy Day Care.-Early life:...
as Agent Powers - Marcus Lyle BrownMarcus Lyle BrownMarcus Lyle Brown is an American film and television actor.- Filmography :- External links :...
as Agent Whitaker - Cole WilliamsCole WilliamsCole Williams is an American film and TV actor. He has been in such diverse films as North Country, and Harry + Max . He also had a recurring role as Anthony W...
as Squirrelly - Charles CarrollCharles CarrollCharles Carroll may refer to:*Charles Carroll , Continental Congressman from Maryland*Charles H. Carroll , U.S...
as Sheriff Marion Morrison