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Frozen

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As a winter storm approaches, three people become stranded on a chairlift high above the ground after a ski resort closes for the night.
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Writer/director Adam Green has the beginnings of an inventive, frightening yarn in Frozen, but neither the script nor the cast are quite strong enough to truly do it justice.

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Ed Koch The Atlantic 01/13/2018
Frozen is a tour de force, not because of exceptional performances by the actors, but rather the outstanding directing of Adam Green, who also wrote the script. The script gave Green a limited area within which to work, and he carried it off superbly. Go to Full Review
Nick Schager Lessons of Darkness 10/11/2010
B-
Greens nifty framing, dawning-dread pacing, and fixation on corporeal deterioration proves sturdy. Go to Full Review
Derek Malcolm London Evening Standard 09/29/2010
3/5
Green orchestrates all this with some skill but not too much gore. A minor tour de force. Go to Full Review
Patrick Cavanaugh The Wolfman Cometh Sep 12
3/5
About as good as a horror movie about three people trapped on a ski lift can be. Go to Full Review
Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review 08/22/2023
3/4
Don’t watch the trailers that reveal entirely too much. Don’t read anything about the movie. Just see it. Go to Full Review
Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com 09/08/2020
1.5/4.0
Plays out like a decent gimmick that could have been fully explored with a 5-10 minute short film. Go to Full Review
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G S Nov 16 It's perfect, because it's exactly what someone interested in a horror movie about getting caught on a chair lift would ever want. See more Vincent G. @JulianSlink Nov 9 It’s a movie about 3 people that get stranded on a ski lift. Go in with no expectations and be pleasantly surprised. This movie will stay with you. There’s no boogie man, no Jason, no Freddy, no Jigsaw, it will get you, because it’s entirely plausible. See more BRizz 2 @TheMovieSearch Aug 10 Frozen is a horror thriller starring Sean Ashmore that follows the harrowing ordeal of two people trapped on a ski lift in freezing cold weather. From the start, the movie sets up its central premise quickly — the characters are stranded high above the ground, exposed to brutal winds and icy temperatures, with no one coming to rescue them. The entire story revolves around their desperate attempts to figure out a way down before they freeze to death. While this kind of contained setting could have been a tense, claustrophobic experience, the execution feels flat. The film spends almost its entire runtime on the ski lift, but the suspense never really builds. The dialogue is dull and repetitive, the pacing drags, and the story itself doesn’t seem to go anywhere interesting. Even the moments that are supposed to be intense or emotional just come across as bland and predictable. By the time Sean Ashmore’s character finally makes it down, the scene is handled in such a strange and abrupt way that it feels more awkward than tragic. Instead of leaving a lasting impression, it ends the film on an odd, unsatisfying note. In the end, Frozen fails to live up to the potential of its survival-horror concept. It’s a movie that could have delivered gripping tension and emotional weight but instead ends up as a slow, monotonous watch that left me bored for most of its runtime. See more Michael O May 11 Movie has the beginnings of an idea that isn't bad, but goes off the rails pretty quickly, and never really builds characters up to the point where we're particularly invested in seeing them survive. By the time (spoilers) the wolves turn up a second time I was laughing more than feeling any sort of tension. On top of all that, a pretty bog-standard ending; there are better ways to spend your time. See more Jeffrey P Mar 20 Minimalist and watchable at most. See more Jianre H @jbear Mar 20 nothing made sense... everything is impossible and dumb decisions are impossible as well writer must never ski/snowboarded in his/her life. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis As a winter storm approaches, three people become stranded on a chairlift high above the ground after a ski resort closes for the night.
Director
Adam Green
Producer
Peter Block, Cory Neal
Screenwriter
Adam Green
Distributor
Anchor Bay
Production Co
Bigger Boat, ArieScope Pictures
Rating
R (Some Disturbing Images|Language)
Genre
Mystery & Thriller, Horror, Adventure
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Feb 5, 2010, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Nov 30, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA)
$246.2K
Runtime
1h 33m
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