Frozen

Film Review by Alastair Roy | 25 Oct 2010
Film title: Frozen
Director: Adam Green
Starring: Emma Bell, Shawn Ashmore, Kevin Zegers
Release date: 18 Oct
Certificate: 15

Chipper college kids Joe (Shawn Ashmore), Dan (Kevin Zegers) and Parker (Emma Bell) head for the ski slopes. They grease a chair-lift dude to let them on one more run before closing. Like that one bong too many, it proves their whitey - as confusion leaves them stuck up piste with the prospect of a week before rescue.

Like ITV's The Cube, Frozen uses the small space of the chair lift well. Like said show, you'll find yourself shouting at the telly as to what the protagonists should do. Unfortunately for them, it's not consoling silver fox Schofield that awaits a wrong decision, but hungry wolves circling below.

Unlike the all-out gore porn churned out in films like Final Destination, director Adam Green paces the terror carefully. The descent from wise-cracking to distraught dialogue is handled nicely too - as relationships and body parts begin to fray. The best stuck-on-a-chair-lift thriller out there right now.