This is not the Disney movie folks, this is about as far as you can get from it actually. This film is a survival horror/thriller about three friends getting abandoned in a chairlift high in the mountains of a ski resort as a snow storm approaches and no one will be back to the resort for at least a week. This movie is amazing for many reasons, and first and foremost I'd say its most amazing feature is its realism. The film uses practical effects which means they actually put three actors in a real chairlift that high up in the air, a lot of the severe weather filmed is authentic, two of the main actors were life long friends so the chemistry between them is real, the wolves are real, most of the stunts actually happened, and so on and so forth. To me that really puts me in favor of this film without even having watched one second of it, but there's much more to love for when you actually do watch the film. The actors are so good, they tell each others life stories throughout the course of the film, and while many writers/actors/directors wouldn't have been able to pull that off without being horribly cheesy, the cast and crew of Frozen make it work, and really make you feel the pain and fear and everything else the characters feel. The film also
delivers phenomenal thrills and scares without being super violent, dealing with the supernatural, or the slightly implausible but still possible all too commonly filmed scenario of the serial killer. What makes this film scary is nature itself. Humans have been battling nature for as long as we've been on earth, and this film pokes at all the things we have to fear about nature. This film is like Jaws for skiers, I daresay you won't want to hurry up a chairlift after you see this movie. The film did have some moments that were a little cheesy, but overall it could have been so much worse. The movie is a non-stop thrill ride that will make you feel like you just got off the best roller-coaster at your local theme park. The ending is a tad vague for me, but I kind of like it that way because it can be up to interpretation a little bit then, and that's nice because I know there are probably a lot of people who will interpret the ending negatively, but I feel there's room for it to be interpreted positively. I should also probably mention this film was written and directed by Adam Green, the creative force behind the Hatchet movies. Overall I loved this movie and I give it a 5/5; You can watch the trailer below:
There's really no other way to say it, this movie was disappointing. The plot sounded very intriguing and like a film version of an X-Files episode: Fashion Photographer Laura Mars has psychic powers beyond her control that allow her to see through the eyes of a psychopathic killer that's on the loose. This was an early project for legendary horror director John Carpenter who wrote the film's screenplay. The movie stars Faye Dunaway, a young Tommy Lee Jones, and one of my favorite character actors Brad Dourif, the great character actor Rene Auberjonois is also in he film (playing quite possibly the funniest/best character of the film). The film has a good 1970s vibe present throughout the majority of
the film (the cars, the fashion, the architecture) and the film has good cinematography (a bit like some of the Giallo greats), but there is a large portion of this film that is really boring, and a lot of it probably could have been cut out. I fell asleep in the middle of the movie, woke up and finished it without missing a beat (the same thing happened when I watched Heat [1995]), I feel like if you're doing you're job of making the movie correctly then I should have had to re-watch what I slept through. Also this movie's plot has been done many times before, so I wasn't too surprised when the twist was revealed at the end because for a seasoned movie buff like myself, it was pretty easy to figure out (for lesser film buffs though it might be more difficult). The other notable thing about this movie is the theme song by Barbara Streisand "Prisoner," which I guess was somewhat of a hit for her. Overall though this was a mediocre movie and I give it a 3/5; You can Watch the Trailer below:
