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The buzz: This horror flick, which likely wants to do for skiing what “Jaws” did for swimming, even includes a conversation about “Jaws” in case the audience doesn't pick up on that.
One of the producing partners of "Frozen" is A Bigger Boat Productions, a clear reference to 1975's "Jaws."
Advertisement Before absolute fear sets in and tough decisions have to be made, the trio chat and spar about smoking, the film "Jaws," as well as the worst ways to die.
While the posters and ad campaign touted this as the new “Jaws,” Green really does hearken back to the likes of films like “Gerry” where seemingly insignificant circumstances instantly turn harrowing thanks to mother nature and incidents that turn small obstacles in to mountains.
It will do for skiing what Jaws did for swimming.
Everybody talks around the obvious interpersonal ugliness between them, and they drift, as callow young adults will, into conversations about pop culture: one lengthy dialogue about sharks explicitly sets up a Jaws reference, but it's also a winking reference to Open Water , the Ur-text of this particular subgenre.
Who knew when the efficient little suspense film “Open Water’’ came out in 2003 that its concept - two scuba divers swept out to sea, with sharks circling - would become a template for every young filmmaker with a dollar and a dream?
In that sense, the intermittently suspenseful Frozen is closer in spirit to the terrifyingly haunting 2003 film Open Water (a couple marooned in the middle of the ocean) and the far less successful stuck-in-the-middle -of-nowhere movie from last year, The Canyon (a couple marooned at the bottom of the Grand Canyon).
Some spoiled young people try to have some healthy outdoor fun — say, scuba-diving (2003's Open Water), or hiking the Grand Canyon (last year's The Canyon), or, in the case of Adam Green's nasty chiller, snowboarding — and, invariably, Mother Nature or Fate or a sadistic screenwriter turns it all into hell.
“Frozen” has more in common with “Open Water,” the masterfully tense 2003 indie in which two scuba divers are stranded in the middle of the ocean with little hope and unimaginable fear lurking beneath.
The plot is a doozy, yes?it has been described in some circles as a snow-set variation on 2004's flawed but effective " Open Water "?but the depth of character and the masterful, unsparing grasp Green and cinematographer Will Barratt have over their mise-en-scéne are the film's all-important special ingredients.
Consider "Frozen" a wind- chilled "Open Water," a 2003 indie that also premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
Following closely in the footsteps of 2010’s Tangled, right down to the fraught family relationship, the character design, and the oversized quadruped who acts like a puppy, Frozen hits many of the same beats, and finds some of the same freshness in a complicated family dynamic.
The quirky thing about "Frozen" -- not to be confused with the 2010 stranded ski lift horror film -- stems from the husband-and-wife songwriting team of Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, the former being the creative force behind the Tony-winning musicals "Avenue Q" and "The Book of Mormon," two sexually frank, adults-only works that would never, ever, bear the Disney logo.
The pointless, image-darkening theatrical 3D presentation notwithstandingthe 2D version is the one to seek out"Frozen" joins the ranks of Pixar's " Disney's 53rd animated feature has nothing to do with people stranded on a ski lift, but the studio has felt the need to repeat the same title, "Frozen," already used for Adam Green's white-knuckle 2010 thriller .
With songs from husband and wife team Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez (2011’s Winnie the Pooh; Lopez was also part of the Tony award-winning writing teams for Broadway musicals Book of Mormon and Avenue Q), Frozen is almost a full musical.
But unlike 2009’s throwback The Princess and the Frog, which felt like nothing more than a tired retread of the pursuit-of-romance motif that had long since been laid to rest, Frozen is — we can hope, anyway — the start of a new era for the wonderful little subgenre Disney has claimed for itself.
Move over, “Frozen;” not since 2010’s “Tangled” has Disney made such a refreshing tribute to the human spirit.
Green, part of a small cadre of ambitious storytellers (he produced Paul Solet's creepy Grace while writing Frozen), has an excellent sense of rhythm -- keep in mind, the bulk of the movie focuses on three people sitting in a chair lift -- and a good eye for casting.
For fans of single-setting survival horror such as Adam Green’s Frozen , new thriller Fall delivers similar terrifying chills and nail-biting suspense.
Emma Bell (2007's " Gracie "), Shawn Ashmore (2008's " The Ruins ") and Kevin Zegers (2005's " Transamerica ") deliver terrific performances equaling the intensity that writer-director Adam Green ratchets, embodying specific individuals rather than easy types.
It's sort of like how I felt about Eli Roth's "Cabin Fever."
"Tucker & Dale vs. Evil" is more a cross between 2004's " Shaun of the Dead " and 2007's " Hatchet " than the crummy, convoluted recent " Creature ," and that's a very good thing.
Emma Bell (2007's " Gracie "), Shawn Ashmore (2008's " The Ruins ") and Kevin Zegers (2005's " Transamerica ") deliver terrific performances equaling the intensity that writer-director Adam Green ratchets, embodying specific individuals rather than easy types.
Director and writer Adam Green was aiming for a low-budget thriller in the vein of Paranormal Activity.
Whereas Paranormal Activity pulsated with the dread of the supernatural, Frozen's fears are rooted in the seemingly mundane reality of nature inexorably taking its course.
Most other single-actor (or nearly so), single-setting films ("Wrecked," "Buried," "Frozen" [2010]) eventually wear out their gimmicks, but "Locke" never does.
That said, Frozen isn't exactly Touching the Void, and there are more than a few plausibility issues, especially when you try to get your head around three young people going out on the slopes without one of them having a cell phone or PDA. Green barely addresses this, and there's nothing to make us assume this story takes place in the '70s or '80s or anything.
AJ Bowen (2010's " Hatchet II ") is becoming a current-day horror staple, and his part as eldest brother Crispian is the juiciest of his career, to date.
Made by real pros, and having lasting shock value, it is miles above and beyond such temporary distractions as The Blair Witch Project (an amateurish fluke it resembles in no way except a shoestring budget) in quality, artistry and appeal.
Best friends Joe Lynch (Shawn Ashmore, "X-Men: The Last Stand," "The Ruins") and Dan Walker (Kevin Zegers, "Wrong Turn," "50 Dead Men Walking") are spending their first time together with Dan's girlfriend Parker O'Neil (Emma Bell), something Joe's not altogether thrilled about.
He gets decent work from Kevin Zegers ( Dawn of the Dead ) and even better performances from Shawn Ashmore ( X-Men: The Last Stand 's "Iceman", hah!) and newcomer Emma Bell.
He gets decent work from Kevin Zegers ( Dawn of the Dead ) and even better performances from Shawn Ashmore ( X-Men: The Last Stand 's "Iceman", hah!) and newcomer Emma Bell.