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Frozen

FROZEN (Anchor Bay, 2010) D: Adam Green, w/ Emma Bell, Shawn Ashmore. Rating: NNNN DVD package: NNNNN Rating: NNNN


Two snowboarders and a skier are trapped on a chairlift 50 feet in the air. The slopes are closed for the next four days. They must save themselves or die. There are wolves below.

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Director Adam Green and his cast generate a great deal of suspense from these simple elements.

Dan (Kevin Zegers) is torn between girlfriend Parker (Emma Bell) and Lynch (Shawn Ashmore), his lifelong best friend, who’s not happy about losing his buddy to a girl. The cast makes excellent and unusual choices in handling the nuances of the relationships as well as the terror.

Green keeps the action vivid with an ever-moving camera that emphasizes vertigo and isolation. You can almost feel the wind. Everything was shot on location – no studio close-ups, no green screen – so cast and crew felt it for real. It was, they say, a shoot from hell, and the extensive extras prove it.

Double-bill this with Black Water, about three people stuck up a tree with a crocodile beneath.

EXTRAS Commentary, four-part making-of doc. Widescreen. English, Spanish audio and subtitles.

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