Director: Adam Green

Cast: Emma Bell, Shawn Ashmore, and Kevin Zegers

Rated: R

Runtime: 94 min.

 

 

In reviewing Frozen, I have to be careful, because I want you to have the same experience that I had when you see this movie. Prior to attending the screening, I consciously avoided reviews and watching trailers, since I thought the movie’s simple premise might be ruined by too much information. I was right. So I have to write this review without spoiling any important details for you, but I also must make you excited enough to seek the movie out. And since it’s in limited distribution, being a Sundance indie that was picked up by Anchor Bay Films, undeniably you will have to seek this one out. But rest assured, you can read this review and still see the movie for the same experience that I had.

The story involves three twentysomething skiers (played by Emma Bell, Shawn Ashmore, and Kevin Zegers) left on a ski lift at night, accidentally abandoned by the ski resort’s staff. Nothing malicious is behind their being stranded; it’s just one of those things. The lift has stopped moving. The lights around them shut down. They sit in the darkness, their dangling feet attached to their respective skis and snowboards, crying out for help. But they’re halfway up a mountain and no one can hear them. Furthermore, it’s Sunday and the resort doesn’t open again until the coming Friday. The stranded three must contend not only with the general cold, but the progressively more dire conditions as a snowstorm approaches. Not to mention some unforeseen nuisances. Trapped forty feet above the ground with no way down, they brainstorm a way out of their predicament.

Their options are jumping off the lift or climbing across the lift wire to a support pole, on which there’s a ladder that they can climb down to ostensible safety. Jumping seems plausible, but there’s bound to be some bones broken in the process, even if the falling snow would help ease the fall. Climbing across the wire is more difficult: it’s razor sharp, enough to cut through even thick winter gloves. The script considers nearly every possibility. The only quibble I have with the material is that no one thinks to use a ski pole or their belt to slide down the wire. Alas, you can’t think of everything, especially not in an indie horror movie.

 

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