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USA 2010
Director: Adam Green
Cast: Kevin Zegers, Emma Bell, Shawn Ashmore, Ed Ackerman, Rileah Vanderbilt
Rating: R
Release Date: 5 February 2010
Running Time: 1 hour 34 minutes
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I was actually speechless when writing this review, all I wanted to write is "awesome, awesome and awesome" I definitely recommend this film for anyone seeking for the real thrill and an emotional feeling to follow. Frozen is dead-on a perfect movie which by the way is quite hard to come by. I mean, there I was sitting nicely and getting ready to see Frozen thinking that it would be a regular blah-blah-but-good horror. It'd take many things to surprise me especially a genre concerning man versus nature or survival horror. And honestly to my surprise, I was blown away by the brilliant brilliant script, neat editing, nifty cinematography and blood curdling survival methods which will make the famous self-sacrifice scene in 127 hours (2010) feels nothing.
Minor Spoilers are inevitable in the review below.
Frozen revolves around two best friends since childhood, Joe Lynch (Shawn Ashmore of The Ruins (2008) and Iceman from X-Men Series) and Dan Walker (Kevin Zegers of It's a Boy Girl Thing (2006)) who agree to go on a ski trip at Mount Holliston and taking along Dan's girlfriend, Parker O'Neill (Emma Bell of Final Destination 5 (2011)) who's not very good at snowboarding. Lynch is a bit annoyed by Parker's presence even though she's a nice and sympathetic girl. But relationship will not be their concern when they dared themselves to ride on a ski lift at the evening nearing closing time of the ski resort on weekend while strom is closing in. The worst thing happen, and they really have to think and struggle and sacrifice for their life.
Minimum is Maximum, that's what I always believe what a brilliant script and directing could achieve. Armed with only three relatively international-wise unknown actors, but every single of them has given splendid performance! We don't meet a b*tching girl, or stuck up rich kid or tough-guy-wannabe dude..., but simply three friends who try to help each other to stay alive. The three of them have great chemistry, that I almost believe Shawn Ashmore and Kevin Zegers are real friends. And to my surprise, IMDB Trivia section mentions they are indeed close friends. Furthermore, Frozen is a proud entry in horror genre where the use of blood is not put for corny shocks but to depict a thoroughly awesome sense of realism or what known as verisimilitude. Believe me, some scenes are going to make you close your eyes and cringe...
I mean, the premise is so crazily simple, three friends got stuck on top of ski lift... What else? But out of that simplicity, the writer could articulate and tweak the plot so brilliantly that it becomes something deadly exciting. I admit that I could guess several stuff such as who suffers first and who suffers last but I also surprised when there is another living being roaming the area... Pack of wolves!
If this movie still playing in cinemas in your city, go see it. If you like a brainy survival horror/men versus nature film, go buy it. It's definitely worth it!
> Three in Trouble: Black Water (2007), Wolf Creek (2005), The Canyon (2009) and Three AKA Survival Island (2005).
> Survival in extremely high places which are "Based ON TRUE STORIES": Alive (1993) and Supervivientes de los Andes (1976) telling about Mount Andes Plane Crash and Touching the Void (2003) telling about two daredevil climbers in Siula Grande.
© iwan pranowo of Movielogy.com
Twitter: @movielogy
posted: Saturday, 10 December 2011 04:01 am
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