Frozen

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Rudy H

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Excellent, low-budget horror. A trio of frienRAB go ski-ing in the mountains, and on the way down in the chair lift, the lift stops, and they end up stranded, forgotten about, alone in freezing temperatures, suspended high above the ground.

There is a certain amount of suspension of disbelief involved, it should be said. How they end up being stranded on the chair lift is somewhat dubious, and at times you do feel that their situation is somewhat contrived, and that there must be an easier solution to their situation.

It all starts off very innocently, the first 20 mins or so are like relationship/boy-girl stuff, and even when they first get stuck there does not seem to be much tension...but as soon as the first shock moment happens, it's pretty relentless from then on.


Part of the tension is derived from an unfamiliar situation...people in sub zero tempatures, suspended in a chair lift, the onset of frostbite...do the characters decide to jump and risk injury...and worse still...wolves...or try and shimmy along the razor sharp cable wire to a pylon with a ladder.


There are some truly disturbing sequences, moments of sheer horror and tension that are often unexpected, and all the more shocking for it.

I would describe it as more of a thriller with elements of horror...but as someone who does not normally like teens-in-peril stuff like this, I found gripping, and quite gruesome in places.
 
I enjoyed it too. I have a lot of time for those types of films. The atmosphere comes from the normallity of the situation, and done well (which this one is) they can be very involving. Makes the shocks all the more shocking too imo. I cringed a few times watching it!
 
I have to admit that I hated the start of it.

I just thought.....another cheesy teenage cliche bullshit type movie where they talk about love, jealousies and all that type of rubbish.

I didn't even rate the actors that good at the start....and just thought................cheesey with capitol Cheese.

However, credit where credit is due. Once they were up on that mountain, it was really good acting from then on.

So yes, I think it's well worth watching....perhaps even for the transfomation itself in how it turned from cheesey acting to really good believable acting.

It was a really tense movie overall......and really gets you thinking as to what you would do in that situation.
 
I think It's out at the cinema (limited release) 1st Oct then on DVD on the 18th Oct.

I was looking forward to it but sadly for me it was a let down. It was too slow, I couldn't warm to any of the characters, just didnt care what happened to them! I was nitpicking at everything they did (or didn't do). Maybe I just wasn't in the mood for it when I watched it :confused:, but those I watched it with couldn't wait for it to end either :confused: I normally like these types of films as well. 2/5.
 
I'm kind of with you on that.:o

But I have to say, that the acting did pick up when they got up on the mountain.

And it did get tense in the sense of what the heck would you do type of thing.

So in that sense, the movie made its point IMO.
 
yeah i suppose it did, i don't know what i was expecting really..maybe I will give it another watch one day. I'd read so many good reviews that i was expecting something amazing so maybe I built it up to much :o
 
Yes i watched the film.

The girl who got frostbite , never had her coat done up to the top . The man ( who was not eaten by wolves ) never put his hood up and never did his coat up to the top.

Just because you say they did , does not make it so . YOU might want to look again.:p Look
 
And you think that closing one button, and putting a hood up when you are already wearing a hat, is going to stop frostbite and hypothermia in sub-zero temperatures?

I daresay this was hardly the only inconsistency in the film, and such films will always have a certain degree of contrivance.

If you can't accept that and overlook such little things for the sake of enjoying the film, then I feel sorry for you.
 
when they were talking about jumping I assumed they were going to do as much as they could to lower themself closer to the ground but no , that idiot just jumped !
 
Chill out a bit :D . I made a throw away comment about coats and hooRAB and you took it deadly seriously and asked me if i have seen the film , and then telling me how overlook things in films to enjoy them . As for feeling sorry for me ?!

It was an average film , and certainly not worth getting upset with each other about. :)
 
Eh?

Pitying someone who seems incapable of suspending their disbelief , and accepting inevitable plot contrivances (and lets be honest...ALL movies have them) at the expense of allowing it to detract from their enjoyment of the movie, is hardly 'getting upset'.
 
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