Frozen

Frozen (2010)

Runtime: 93 minutes

Directed by: Adam Green

Starring: Emma Bell, Shawn Ashmore, Kevin Zegers

From: Ariescope Pictures

Yep, this is another horror film. I've just been on that kick as of late. Here is one I've heard about for the past two years now and finally watched last week. This is from the guy who gave up the first and second Hatchet films; if you don't remember, I really didn't care for the first one aside from its gore and the second one was better but I'll remember that the mostly due to being one of the few people who saw that on the big screen and Kane Hodder himself was in attendance and he did a Q&A before and then after the film was screened. This was an entirely different animal altogether.

The plot, via a Brazilian guy at IMDb: At Mount Holliston, snowboarders Dan Walker, his girlfriend Parker O'Neil and his best friend Joe Lynch don't have enough money to buy lift tickets. Parker bribes Jason, a lift-worker, with one hundred dollars. When the system is nearing closure, they force Jason to let them have one last pass. However, Jason needs to resolve a problem and his colleague misunderstands his instructions and stops the lift. The trio of skier and snowboarders gets stranded on the chairlift near the top of the mountain. When they see that the lights of the ski resort had been turned off, they need to make a choice: leave the chairlift or freeze to death.

That sums things up pretty well. This movie I thought was good. While I don't quite know it's as great as I've heard in some circles, this is still an interesting and tense drama/thriller that is more about thrills than gore. It's not gory at all aside from some moments that I won't spoil but are still gruesome in ways that you don't always see in horror films.

Sure, the main characters border on being not that likeable in the beginning given the whole thing about them being cheap and using bribes and also how they act. But, as this gets going, you get to like them more as they are in their bad situation. There's a lot of dialogue as they talk about how to survive in this situation, how to try and get out of it, and then they talk to kill time and that's how you find out more about their back stories. Thankfully most of that dialogue is interesting to listen to and the acting is at least fine so it's not a grating experience. If you want to watch something a little different then I say that this is worth a look.

Although, it should be noted that there is a plot point involving a certain type of animal, and apparently it doesn't exist in New England! As long as you can ignore that... I'll be back Friday night with a review of something that won't be in the horror genre.