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Capone gets freaked out about Adam Green's FROZEN treat!!!
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Hey, everyone. Capone in Chicago here.
To be honest, there isn't a whole lot to say about Adam Green's latest work (following HATCHET and SPIRAL) beyond, "Just go see it as if your life depended on it." Anything more might ruin the fun of discovering the small but remarkable FROZEN, a movie that has about the simplest plot summary in a long time: Three people are trapped on chairlift at a ski resort only open on the weekend...and it's Sunday night...and it's really, really cold. If you're a winter sports enthusiast, I bet you just got goose bumps. I'm not, and I still freaked out a little watching FROZEN. Oh, and please consider this entire review a giant SPOILER WARNING!!!
The three people in question are best buddies Joe and Dan (Shawn Ashmore and Kevin Zeg), as well as Dan's tag-along girlfriend Parker (Emma Bell), who Joe likes but resents her presence at the traditional guy's ski weekend. He likes her a little bit more when she bats her eyes at the guy running the chairlift and gets them all free rides without tickets. Through a series of all-too-believable events, the one person who knows the three are doing one last night run abandons his post and the lift is shut down with them left hanging about 50 feet off the ground. What most impressed me about Green's script was everything that happens to the threesome from this point forward. Every action they take to seek rescue or save themselves is probably exactly what normal-thinking people would do. And the results seem all too believable and messed up. And what about inaction? Think about what would happen to your body if you just sat there hoping somebody would come by. Bathroom breaks? Ha! How about frostbite, sun exposure during the day, and might there be a critter or two in the woods below looking at you like a meat piñata (if you've seen the trailer, you know the answer already)?
I didn't immediately recognize Bell and Zegers, but Shawn Ashmore I knew from THE RUINS as his supporting roll as Iceman in the X-MEN movies, and he's quite good as a de facto hero of the film and the only character who is willing and/or able to do what is necessary to get off the lift without killing himself (or so it would seem). But FROZEN isn't as much about action as it is about suspense and character development. I loved watching all of the interpersonal drama between them basically vanish when the crisis sets in. Primal fear takes over and bad decisions are as likely as good ones. Panic sets in early and the reality of the situation soon follows. And that's about as much of the movie as I'm willing to talk about, because it's such a small, short experience that saying much more would be criminal.
With this film, Adam Green has gone from a filmmaker who knows how to mimic the style of the films he loved growing up to a full-bore director of fear-based movies, that tap into what scares us most and follows the path of human behavior that leads us to destruction as often as it leads us to safety. Taking nothing away from the three fantastic young actors who give us three distinct personas loaded with flaws and a few ideas on how to survive. Like OPEN WATER from a few years ago, FROZEN isn't as concerned with detailed backstory (like JAWS, which this film has been compared to in some reviews) as it is dealing with the here and now. And the here and now of this movie filled me with terror and anxiety, the kind only real life can embed in you. Good luck getting FROZEN out of your head.
-- Capone
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Hmm. Either I'm intrigued or monstrously bored. I haven't decided yet.
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Right on, Capone. This movie kicked my ass.
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now THAT would be an accomplishment.
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I was already conned into seeing Hatchet by the boys at Aintitcool. Definitely one of the worst slasher films I've come across. The only thing impressive about it was how thoroughly incompetent the "filmmaking" was(INTENTIONALLY funny? I don't think so). So I won't be watching another of Adam Green's turds based on their recommendation.
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...horror/suspense flicks in which all the characters die by the end. It was shocking at first, and now it's been played out... and then some. This looks like another movie where everybody just winds up dead, which means I'm not really interested.
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You didn't get defensive about the "unbelievable" aspects of the film that many are criticizing. Kudos to you for that; this review makes me want to see it more than Harry or Massa's did, which seemed to be a defense for the movie rather than a review.
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I don't think this needs a spoiler tag.
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...borrow a camera, and make myself a low budget suspense flick called: "Drunk & Locked Out". A couple goes out clubbing, gets drunk and loses their house keys. What paranormal dangers lurk just beyond their ken on the front porch at 3AM? Will the bag of Whataburgers they picked up on the way home be enough to sustain them until morning? Is the weather too chilly? What about the pack of rabid raccoons circling their front yard and slowly but surely getting closer... and closer? And the viral marketing campaign will claim it all REALLY happened and was taken from a mysterious security camera tape found in a box buried under an old dilapidated house just across the street from the abode of our ill-fated couple.
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Period. Best kills, funniest characters- pure awesomeness.
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Multiple positive reviews for this thing? I think I actually want to see it now. Damn you!
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If that's believable then let Darwin take them. Stupidity is its own reward.
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This looks like the worst non idea for a movie I have ever seen.
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For the sequel they can just film all the idiots who wait 60+ hours outdoors in the cold for games, movies, systems. Have some unbelievable shit happen to them and BAM! good reviews from AICN.
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*Spoilers*
It would have been better if the wolves attacked instead of just seeing them in the distance as a potential threat. The girls hand gets stuck to the bar, the dude jumps down and twists his ankle, and he goes and gets help that arrives just in time, and there's a bunch of character arc bullshit where you find out the friend is gay. they billed it as a horror movie, but it's just emo bullshit. -
why bother marking spoilers in your post if you're going to have a spoiler in your subject line? Asshole.
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You clearly haven't seen "Theodore Rex."
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Funny. BTW everyobe else, all those "spoilers" are complete BS. None of that happens. Completely wrong (except the hand part).
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he's a studio plant trying to throw you off!
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You guys tricked me into seeing HATCHET. I'm not making the same mistake twice.
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He's the kind of cunt snot that gives spoilers in the goddamn subject line. Reluctant Austinite claims they aren't true, and while I appreciate his reassurance, Stovetop's kind of joke isn't fucking funny. Spoiler humor never is. If what he says in his subject line is what actually happens, I hope StovetopStuffin dies. Painfully. Fucking kids gotta look cooler than everything else. Cretin.
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...you insufferable, self-righteous crap twats. Go take a nap and simmer down.
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And you will love this. The movie ends with a shot of 2 other guys stuck on a separate lift chair! (The audience at the screening groaned soooooo long about that. Fucking sequel cash grab bullshit.)
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I was not kidding! You even see the dude who jumped down from the lift getting out of the back of the police car at the end and running up to the girl. Who else would that have been?
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Even before I scrolled down to the comment section, I was planning to post the exact comment you already added. Kudos for seeing to the heart of the matter...
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His "spoilers" are fake. Just saw the movie, played out very differently. As for if I enjoyed the film - not really. It was about what I expected it to be. Nothing more, nothing less.
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Great flick. Green is a talent. I believe that most people who bag his films are simply talentless filmmaker wannabes who are pissed off they are still virgins and their sister is too fast for them to catch.
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Three people get stuck in Howe Caverns after the guy on the job leaves them.
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Three people in the desert after their tour guide thinks they've hopped back on the bus after a bathroom break.
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An astronaut is left behind on the moon when his crew members think he's done collecting rocks.
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I can be a no-talented plageurizing Hollywood hack too.
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so whats the reason why they don't just jump off and ski down ?
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Douche. Kingoflfight, if you're gonna try and rip on a movie at least spell basic words right so that your opinion can count.
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It's icy below, not soft powder. But feel free to try it next time you're on a ski lift, let us know how it works out.
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Now that just wasn't very nice. How the hell was I supposed to know it wasn't true? Some cocksucker gives away the end of a movie and he gets called a cunt snot. That's just the way of the world, sir.
Thanks everyone for confirming it was a (bad) joke. I know the reviews are mixed, but I'm really looking forward to this one. And Stovetop... damn you. -
If you wanna listen to those jokers, go ahead, but you'll be disappointed when you find out I was telling you the truth. Does it sound like something I made up? I WISH it were a (bad) joke!
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Or was that just to make your article appear less mind-numbingly dull than yours normally are? You haven't spoiled shit here capone.
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