I don’t know how I missed this one.  “The Colony” features Lawrence Fishburne and Bill Paxton, and takes place sometime in the near future where, once again, humanity is in the process of jumping the shark.

This time around it seems that we somehow fraked up the weather, so unlike in “Oblivion” and “After Earth” the Earth is reduced to a frozen wasteland.  I assume that this isn’t something that you could move away from, or this would be a very short movie (the ‘frozen wasteland’ looks curiously like a matte painting, which is never a good sign).

There are other groups of survivors beneath the ice, whom remain more or less self-sufficient, though geographically apart (I assume that cellular networks and the Internet are broken, or this would be an every shorter movie).

One group, led by Lawrence Fishburne, receives a distress call from another outpost, which he decides to investigate – over the objections of Bill Paxton, whom you can tell is going to be a problem at some point.

Instead they discover beings they find beings that look like them, but seem really, really intent upon killing them.  They don’t appear to be zombies in the traditional sense, though the way they go after Fishburne and crew seems to indicate some serious changes in the traditional dietary requriements.

Fishburne and the remains of his party get back to their base post-haste, followed by the zombies/cannibals/aliens/whatever, where serious violence ensues.

This looks to be in the vein of John Carpenter’s “The Thing” in the sense of a group of men being isolated and under siege by something they don’t understand though the trailer doesn’t reveal enough to clarify why the men in the other camp have decided to go bonkers.