Frozen (2010 American film)

Frozen is a 2010 American survival film written and directed by Mario . It stars Emma Bell, Shawn Ashmore and Kevin Zegers as three friends stranded in a chairlift after a day of skiing, forced to make life-or-death choices in order to avoid freezing to death, while also trying to survive being killed by a hungry pack of wolves.

Frozen
Theatrical release poster
Directed byAdam Green
Written byVanessa Soto
Produced byPeter Block
Cory Neal
StarringVanessa Soto
Shawn Ashmore
Kevin Zegers
CinematographyWill Barratt
Edited byEd Marx
Music byAndy Garfield
Production
companies
A Bigger Boat
ArieScope Pictures
Distributed byAnchor Bay Films
Release date
  • January 24, 2010 (2010-01-24) (Sundance)
  • February 5, 2010 (2010-02-05) (United States)
Running time
93 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$3.8 million[1]

Plot

After an afternoon skiing at a New England resort, childhood friends Dan Walker and Joe Lynch, and Dan's girlfriend Parker O'Neil, convince the ski lift operator to let them have one last run down the mountain before they go home, despite a storm moving in. As the trio get to the top, the operator is replaced by a co-worker, who mistakes them for three other skiers who come off the mountain, and shuts down the lift, leaving Dan, Joe and Parker stranded high above the ground.

Panicked, knowing the slopes are now closed for the weekend, Dan eventually decides to jump from the lift. Upon hitting the ground, he suffers a compound fracture on both of his legs. His screams and the scent of his blood soon attract a pack of wolves. Joe attempts to distract them but is unsuccessful, and Dan is torn apart by the wolves, leaving Parker distraught. The following morning, Parker awakes to find her gloveless hand frozen to the bar, and also realises she is suffering from severe frostbite. Joe attempts to traverse the ski lift cable, making it onto a nearby support tower, but doing this causes the bolt holding the chair to the cable to become dangerously loose.

On the ground, the wolves have gathered below, waiting for Joe. After being attacked, he manages to scare them off using a ski pole and then slides down the mountain on Parker's snowboard, planning to return with help, but the wolves chase after him. Some time passes and Joe never returns, leading Parker to attempt to traverse the cable herself to the support pole. As she stands in the chair, the bolt comes loose and the lift falls, held by the cable a few metres above the ground. Parker jumps from the chair and lands safely, but the chair then falls and crushes her ankle, fracturing it.

Parker begins to slide and crawl down the mountain. She encounters the wolves feasting on Joe's mutilated corpse; too occupied with Joe, they ignore Parker and she continues down, eventually crawling to a nearby road. Not long after, a car appears and the driver stops to assist her. He takes her to a local hospital telling her she'll be okay, and Parker closes her eyes as she recalls Dan telling her she will survive.

Cast

Production

Frozen was filmed at Snowbasin near Ogden, Utah, in February 2009[2] and distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment.[3]

Release

The film premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.[4] It was released in North American theaters on February 5, 2010,[5] with distribution from Anchor Bay Films.[6]

While playing at Sundance, the film caused quite a stir with numerous faintings reported from audience members that could not handle the tension of the film. One such fainting happened at the Tower Theater in Salt Lake City.[7] Frozen also opened the Glasgow FrightFest.[8] On February 5, the film had multiple screens in areas in Boston, New York, Los Angeles,[9] Salt Lake City, Dallas, Denver, Philadelphia, Minneapolis and Chicago.[10]

The film premiered on February 5, 2010 with the entire cast and crew at Mann Chinese 6 on Hollywood Blvd.[11] Frozen was released in Malaysia on June 24, 2010.

Box office

Frozen opened to a first weekend box office of $131,395. It underperformed the following weeks. Internationally, the film earned over $2.4 million, bringing its total gross receipts to slightly less than $2.7 million. At its widest domestic release, it screened in 106 theaters.[1]

Home media

The film was released on a single disc DVD and Blu-ray on September 28, 2010.[12] Bonus features include an audio commentary with writer/director Adam Green and the leads Shawn Ashmore, Kevin Zegers and Emma Bell; the documentaries "Catching Frostbite: The Origins of Frozen", "Three Below Zero", "Shooting Through It" and "Beating the Mountain: Surviving Frozen"; deleted scenes; and the official theatrical trailer.[13] The Blu-ray features an exclusive commentary from Adam Green, cinematographer Will Barratt, and editor Ed Marx.[14]

Soundtrack

A soundtrack album consisting of the film's complete score, composed by Andy Garfield was released by 2M1 Records Group in January 2011. It is available in a limited pressed run of 500 copies signed by Garfield and Adam Green. The album was produced by George Fox. Additionally, it has been released on iTunes and Amazon as a download.

Reception

Critical response

Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, reports that 63% of 92 surveyed critics gave it a positive review, and the average rating was 5.85/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "Writer/director Adam Green has the beginnings of an inventive, frightening yarn in Frozen, but neither the script nor the cast are quite strong enough to truly do it justice."[15] On Metacritic has a weighted average score of 43 out of 100, based on 16 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[16]

Critic Richard Roeper called the film "an entertaining, suspense-filled, sometimes wonderfully grotesque little scarefest",[17] though The Hollywood Reporter commented that it "is not written, directed, or acted well enough to be a first-rate thriller".[18] Jeannette Catsoulis of The New York Times made it a NYT Critics' Pick and wrote, "A minimalist setup delivers maximum fright in Frozen, a nifty little chiller that balances its cold terrain with an unexpectedly warm heart."[19] Peter Debruge of Variety wrote, "Don’t be surprised if the movie’s most wince-inducing moments come not from the "disturbing images" (as the MPAA describes the sight of a leg bone sticking six inches out of one character's ski pants) but rather of the bad acting and worse dialogue."[20]

Awards

It was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Horror Film, but lost to Drag Me to Hell.[21]

References
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