Frozen
2010 Directed by Adam Green
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No one knows you're up there
Three skiers are stranded on a chairlift and forced to make life-or-death choices that prove more perilous than staying put and freezing to death.
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Meandering and ultimately fairly boring survival horror thing where three people get stranded in a ski-lift overnight after they piss the lift attendant off by being arrogant bribe-wielding tossers and therefore deserving almost everything they get. Yeah, way to establish our heroes, woooo!
You get the impression that director Adam Green understands that a ski-lift chair is VERY restrictive in terms of what he can do with this film - so he has to have one idiot do something unbelievably stupid about halfway in because otherwise it's just a film about three irritating twats sat in a ski-lift getting increasingly more frostbitten and moaning about being cold.
You get some occasionally gruesome moments and a decent enough ending save it from being totally rubbish, but it is still quite rubbish. You won't need to watch it again. In fact, I'm doubtful that you will need to see it once.
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never ever ever fucking ever ever ever would you fucking fall asleep on a chair lift with a fucking blizzard going on with your bare hand on a metal pole
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A reasonable effective low-budget "Situation Horror" as three annoying teenagers get stuck on a deserted ski lift... 6/10.
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This is the kind of movie that you rent with friends on a Saturday night and complain together how stupid it is.
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I cried, it was that good.
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Much in the same vain as "Open Water," this is a story about people isolated and abandoned to fight the elements around them. It's actually very good, and has some cringe worthy moments. I'm lucky I don't ski, because I would have to quit, since I will never get into a chair lift again.
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I did squirm a few times while watching this, and I generally liked it. But I did have some issues with implausible situations. None of them brought their cellphones, they don't cover themselves completely which is the one that annoyed me the most. But I liked it and it does have the same allure of Open Water.
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I have a bug to report; I can't rate this film with negative stars.
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No es Infierno Blanco, pero Adam Green muestra señales de vida después de la decepcionante secuela de Hatchet. Torture porn sin porn on the rocks.
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Interesante film aunque con una historia muy plana, se centra mas en la reacción de los personajes en una situación como esta, muestra pocos detalles así que los actores deben esforzarse por dar lo mejor de si para hacer mas interesante la cosa.
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I have to say, I really enjoyed Frozen. I picked the film up mainly because I enjoyed Adam Green's Hatchet and it was pretty cheap. I was rather intrigued as to how Green intended to spend 90 minutes with three characters on a ski lift, but the film is excellently plotted and there really was never a slow moment. I found the acting to be really good as well, but it's probably not hard to fake being scared when the actors were actually sitting in a legit ski lift for the whole film (there was no CGI or sets used; that's a bad ass way to shoot a film like this). In the end, Frozen is a solid thriller and certainly worth the couple bucks I spent for it at Walmart.
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Three friends get stuck on a ski-lift and are forced to survive against the elements and local wildlife. Overall, a surprisingly good horror film with good character development and nice body-horror touches. Most of all though was the sustained threat that you feel the whole time, the constant worry, that would be for naught if you didn't care about the characters to begin with.
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A "what would you do?" type of film. Very realistic & very plausible.
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Wow. This is how you do suspense on a budget. Get three people, stick 'em in a chairlift, and dangle them a hundred feet above the snowy mountain with nobody coming to save them. Given the gory, goofy fun of Adam Green's previous film Hatchet, I was surprised at how restrained and calm he made this movie. He lets the situation dictate the terror, with the palpable cold and the dizzying height ever-present as we puzzle over how the protagonists can possibly escape their fates.
In addition to being suspenseful, this movie does manage to provide one of the most gruesome fall/leg break moments I've ever seen. I mean, you know it's coming - it's in the trailer and everything…
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Excellent trapped-in-one-location thriller that the makers of 247°F should have taken more notice of.