Frozen

Plot synopsis:
Princess Elsa of Arendelle possesses cryokinetic magic, often using it to play with her younger sister Anna. After Elsa accidentally injures Anna with her magic, their parents, the King and Queen, rush both siblings to a colony of trolls led by Grand Pabbie. He heals Anna, but alters her memories to remove traces of Elsa’s magic, warning Elsa that she must learn to control her powers. The King and Queen isolate both sisters within the castle. Elsa shuts out Anna, causing a rift between them. Elsa suppresses her magic rather than mastering it, causing her to become more insecure. When the sisters are teenagers, their parents die at sea during a storm.
When Elsa turns twenty-one, she is to be crowned queen of Arendelle. She is terrified that the kingdom's citizens might find out about her powers and fear her. The castle gates open to the public and visiting dignitaries for the first time in years. Amongst them is the scheming Duke of Weselton, and the dashing Prince Hans of the Southern Isles, with whom Anna falls head-over-heels in love. Elsa’s coronation happens without a hitch, but she still remains distant from Anna. When Hans proposes to Anna, Elsa objects, unleashing her powers before the court. The Duke brands her a monster. Elsa flees the kingdom, but her suppressed magic engulfs Arendelle in an eternal winter. Reaching the North Mountain, Elsa discards her crown and creates a palace of ice in which to live a solitary life.
Anna ventures out to find Elsa and end the winter, leaving Hans in charge. She gets lost, collecting supplies at Wandering Oaken's shop. She meets an ice harvester, Kristoff, and his reindeer Sven, convincing them to escort her to the mountains. An attack by wolves leads to Kristoff’s sleigh being destroyed. On foot, they meet Olaf, a cheerful snowman brought to life unknowingly by Elsa, who offers to lead them to her. When Anna’s horse returns to Arendelle, Hans sets out to find her, accompanied by the Duke's minions, who have secret orders to assassinate Elsa.
Reaching the ice palace, Anna reunites with Elsa, but when she reveals what has become of Arendelle, Elsa becomes agitated and accidentally freezes Anna's heart. She then summons a giant snow creature, Marshmallow, who chases Anna, Kristoff, and Olaf away. Anna's hair begins turning white, so Kristoff takes her to meet the trolls, his adoptive family. Grand Pabbie reveals Anna will freeze solid unless "an act of true love" reverses the spell. Kristoff races Anna back home so Hans can give her true love's kiss. Hans and his men reach Elsa's palace, defeating Marshmallow and taking her prisoner. Anna is delivered to Hans, but rather than kissing her, he instead reveals that he is actually been plotting to seize the throne of Arendelle by eliminating both sisters. He locks Anna in a room to die, and manipulates the dignitaries into believing that Elsa killed her. He orders the queen's execution, only to discover she has escaped her cell.
Olaf frees Anna and they venture into the blizzard outside to meet Kristoff, whom Olaf reveals is in love with her. Hans confronts Elsa outside, claiming she killed Anna, causing Elsa to break down. Anna spots Hans about to kill Elsa; she leaps in the way and freezes solid, stopping Hans. Brokenhearted, Elsa hugs and mourns over her sister, who suddenly thaws, her heroism constituting "an act of true love". Realizing her magic is controlled by love, Elsa ends the winter, giving Olaf his own snow flurry to survive the summer. Both Hans and the Duke are removed from the kingdom. Anna and Kristoff become a couple, while both sisters are reunited, with Elsa promising never to close the gates again.
In a post-credits scene, Marshmallow is shown in Elsa's ice palace, happily crowning himself as its sole inhabitant.

Tags: violence, cult, psychological, entertaining, suspenseful

Review:
Her standout scene takes place when she's relaying her fears about what might happen to her puppy if she dies on the lift, and if he'd think she abandoned him.Kudos to Adam Green for shooting this film on location.
There are some gruesome bits, particularly the hand scene from the trailer and a discovery towards the film's end, but most of the tension comes from the predicament itself and some of the debasing things the characters have to do.
Needing to take a leak while stuck on a ski lift may not be a big deal if you're a guy, but Parker's options aren't so easy.I didn't think much of Adam Green's Hatchet.
(Although personally I feel that nobody would have survived the cold and dehydration of the first night.)We even learn a little about the characters, in a way that's more convincing than most disaster films, I am thinking for example of The Poseidon Adventure.
Overall it could of had a slightly better conclusion and I don't think it's going to be the best genre flick of the year because I just don't see that happening but if you want to see something different, new and bone chilling go support Adam Green's latest effort Frozen, though more of a renter on a snowy night to me.
I can almost guarantee that you will not enjoy this movie if you have ever done one of the following actions--Lived in snow -Been skiing -Been to the snow -Read a book about snow -Seen a movie that has snow in it -Spoken to someone who has seen snow -Accidentally turned your air conditioning down to low.Basically if you have any idea of what being in a cold environment might be like, then you will spend this entire movie picking faults and questioning the characters actions, because it seems like whoever wrote this script has not.One scene (very early so not a spoiler of any sort) shows a character noticing the other has frostbite on face.
This is just one small example of the stupidity of the main characters that you will inevitably come to hate, even wishing death upon, they deserve it, for making you sit and watch as they make one idiotic move after another against hazards that will have you scratching your head as to why they are hazards.There are a few interesting scenes, but it really is not worth the painful "Why did you do that" and "That doesn't make any sense" moments.
The director (whom I didn't know before this movie) gets to generate an authentic tension from a real suspense story: the panic gripping the trio is absolutely palpable, although the strong implausibility of no one having a cellphone is not that believable.
Like a movie studio trying to emulate the moments before a car accident, then its aftermath.I'm not one of these reviewers that will take you through the entire plot of the film.
It's also extremely thought provoking and realistic.The acting is very good, especially as Adam Green, the director, actually tortured the actors so they come across genuinely cold.
"Frozen" is a great suspense movie that works -and does so extremely well- with very few elements: a natural environment as beautiful as hostile, three helpless characters, and time running against them.
Filmmaker Adam Green somehow manages to pull this off -keep the interest and the viewer's attention almost without a break for an entire hour, that is, the whole running time except for about 25 minutes to introduce the characters and create the atmosphere for their horrific experience -which is, in my opinion, a good point, because the characters are nice people and I cared about them and their luck.These three characters are Dan, his girlfriend Parker and his best friend Joe, all on a skiing vacation.
One evening they get on a chair lift back from skiing, but it stops without notice, with them being its only occupants -hanging 50 feet above the ground in the middle of nowhere and no hopes of being found in three days.Like I said, the suspense and the thrill work very well and go in a crescendo, especially for the first half since their situation begins.
This is survival horror at its finest -experiences that can happen to anyone, because they involve all real life elements.The pace goes remarkably down toward the end, and there are a few scenes that, though not long, drag it down a little bit and don't seem to serve any real purpose, except to linger the denouement a little more.The only real problem I have with "Frozen" is its ending, which I find objectionable not because I may think it is bad, but because the rest of the movie is so terrific, I expected something on par with that.
Blessed with a gorgeous face and backed with good acting skills, she seems like someone meant for the longer race.The best thing about "Frozen" is that it takes on a simple plot and deliver it with such great attention to details and turn of events that by the end of the movie, it feels like a very good movie experience.
I'm scared sh*tless."Frozen is a simple, effective horror/thriller about three people trapped on a ski lift with no one around to rescue them.
Not at all a complicated premise, but it leads to a pretty good movie.Director Adam Green has little problem keeping Frozen interesting for the entire hour and thirty-four minutes that it lasts, so don't worry about being bored.
Should you decide to watch this movie, nothing I say in this review will prepare you what you will experience.Set on location at a Utah ski resort, buddies Dan (Kevin Zegers) and Joe (Shawn Ashmore) spend a Sunday afternoon at the bunny slope (equivalent to the shallow end of a swimming pool) allowing Parker (Emma Bell), Dan's new girlfriend and novice snowboarder, to learn the ropes.
What works here is your level of imagination, depending on which, greatly increases or decreases the agony of a character during the moment of death.While mainstream critics have panned this movie from the screenplay to the acting, I felt genuine terror in Dan, Joe and Parker's ordeal.
He sets up a scenario that relies on two things that usually happen in horror movies: 1) teenagers or college kids are a bit ignorant in some practical things (i.e. the timing of a ski lift and the hours), and 2) minor characters like, say, an operator of a ski lift may forget about the three kids a top the ski lift going up.
It's a set-up that has to be given some suspension of disbelief- not to mention that this would happen the night before the Ski resort closes for a week- so that the meat of the picture can unfold.It's a suspense film before being a horror movie, where we're given three (at least somewhat) likable characters who know one thing and that is they can't stay on a ski lift that's stopped for five days in below zero degree weather on a lift that could conceivably break any moment.
Acting = excellent!I have pretty high standards of what I expect from a movie but this was good enough to watch and I didn't feel like it wasted my time.
Don't know if I can blame the actor for this entirely, but the performance wasn't one to write home about.The film looks good, with some terrific shots of the mountain, the silent and deserted lift, and the terrifying wolves who linger below.
In Frozen's case, when I say great acting, I'm only referring to Emma Bell as Parker O'Neil, who finds herself in an uncomfortable situation as she tags along on a skiing trip with her boyfriend Dan Walker, and his best friend, Joe Lynch.
I couldn't tell you what is worse being frozen to death, jumping from 50 feet in the air or being attacked by wolves but this movie pretty much got me thinking that staying indoors is the safest place on the planet.
One's enjoyment of this horror movie from writer / director Adam Green is going to depend on how much they're able to buy into the premise and how much they're willing to swallow - not to mention how sympathetic (or not) they feel towards the three main characters.
There's very little in the way of build-up and exposition, and instead the film gets on with tackling the various dangers that the stranded folk face: everything from frostbite to the possibility of being eaten alive by wolves.The movie emphasises realism throughout; there are no outlandish heroics here, no contrivances, just a very real chance of dying in an increasingly horrible way.
I always judge the success of movies by how well they make you feel like you're there in the situation with the characters, and FROZEN achieves that effect very well.
Instead they're presented as ordinary folk, little different from you or me, adding to the 'what would I do?' feel.Director Adam Green – the man behind the HATCHET movies – is clearly a horror lover first and foremost, thus the emphasis here is on the horrible nature of the scenario.
Or better yet, maybe one of the cars from Need for Speed could come screaming down the hill on top of the snow and run over one of the trio of fictionally marooned actors.If you're going to produce a movie like this, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE do some research, do your homework, don't just sit down and write about how you think things are somewhere you've never been.
'FROZEN': Four Stars (Out of Five) Up and coming horror filmmaker Adam Green (writer and director of 'HATCHET' and the up coming 'HATCHET II') writes and directs this low budget ski-resort thriller that's recently made it's way to video (after distributor Anchor Bay dumped it in an extremely limited theatrical run with no advertisement, due to their own problems with the sale of their company at the time).
nature' psychological suspense tale, although there are killer wolves thrown in for added measure.The film tells the story of three friends who take a day trip to a local ski resort.
For the most part the movie is realistic and believable and that's what sets it aside from other low budget horror films; there's no psycho killer or monster, it's just three friends trying to survive against nature (and some aggressive wolves).
Obviously it can, as the three teenagers find out over the course of the movie.Played by the fresh faced Emma Bell (you may have seen her playing bit roles in Law & Order and Ghost Whisperer), the chatty Shawn Ashmore (you probably know him as Iceman in the X-Men series) and the brooding Kevin Zegers (remember Felicity Huffman's son in Transamerica?), they are a caricature of adventurous teens of today who would do anything to have that one opportunity to have a little more fun.
The young actors may not deliver the most mesmerizing performances you've seen, but they do a fairly good job of portraying your average teenager – the type that is neither very likable nor very obnoxious.So when they get into trouble and have to fight unexpected obstacles (let's just say these are situations you don't want to find yourself in on any given day), you feel the horror and terror they are going through.The production values aren't too bad either.
Frozen is a well done thriller which takes a potentially comic premise- three people stuck on a ski resort chairlift-and makes it into a gruesome, genuinely disturbing film.
Through the use of some good character development and gut-wrenching make up effects, as well as good direction by Adam Green, this premise becomes a worthwhile film.The basic story is that three college students, after bribing a ski lift operator, end up stuck on a ski lift chair as the ski resort closes down for the next five days.
As the weather deteriorates and wolves draw close, they must find a way to get down.Although the film offers some very visceral moments of gore, the main tension in it comes from the realistic depiction of the effects of the frozen environment upon the protagonists.
"Frozen" is a good ol' fashioned nail-bitingly intense experience that will leave you yelling at the screen long after the credits have rolled.In the film, three college buddies (Emma Bell, Kevin Zegers and Shawn Ashmore) take to the ski-slopes to forget about reality for the weekend but soon find stress where they least expect it.
I think this is the directors best to this point, and Adam Green may very well be the next great horror director, not dwelling on extremes like Rob Zombie or the SAW films for instance.
I've never really understood the attraction of a vacation where one risks serious injury on perilously icy slopes, and Adam Green's Frozen only strengthens my resolve to take fair weather holidays: the idea that I might fall to my death from a great height or be eaten by wolves just convinces me further that my preferred holiday destination, a sandy beach with warm waters lapping at my toes (shark-free waters, of course), is the only way to go.Parker, Joe and Dan (Emma Bell, Shawn Ashmore, and Kevin Zegers), the trio of unfortunate skiers in Green's movie, sure wind up regretting their choice of weekend break when they find themselves stranded on a chairlift in sub-zero temperatures.
As they slowly come to realise that their predicament could very well be fatal, fear leads to panic, and panic leads to a series of rash decisions that leaves them in a very sorry state indeed.With its slow build up, believable characters, well executed scenes of edge-of-the-seat suspense, and fair amount of realistic nastiness, Frozen is a surprisingly mature horror/thriller from the man who gave us the far less sophisticated but still immensely entertaining Hatchet and indicates that Green might well be one of the more promising new directors of the genre.
Undoubtedly, Frozen, the 2009 film by Writer/Director Adam Green, is one of the first to feature stranded skiers on a ski lift.
The suspense, the tension, the anticipation, and the sheer "edge-of-your-seat" feeling that is generated is impressive, especially with the wolf scenes...the first of these being the most fraught & the most harrowing not because of what you see but because of what you hear.The main cast of Emma Bell, Shawn Ashmore, and Kevin Zegers all work well together and do a great job with their characters, portraying them as regular 'down-to-Earth' people and not the usual stereotypes that we tend to see i.e. the buff macho hero.As a side note, it's quite comical seeing these "I'm a ski-lift operator/cable expert/ski resort worker" reviewers saying how ridiculous this film is.
The fact that the majority of the film takes place in a ski lift and that it still manages to be entertaining and tense is a real testament to the actors.Three skiers Joe Lynch (Shawn Ashmore) Parker O'Neil (Emma Bell) and Dan Walker (Kevin Zegers) - the latter two being boyfriend and girlfriend are spending a week end at a ski resort.
the elements" horror/thrillers, Frozen pits a college-age trio who's stuck on a ski lift against freezing temperatures, a pack of ravenous wolves, and the mental fatigue associated with these sorts of extreme situations.
Emma Bell's character, for example, does very little in the film but scream and complain, leading me to wonder what kind of self-respecting male would want her as a girlfriend.Despite its flaws, Frozen kept me stuck to the edge of my seat for the entire running time.
There is no light at the end of the tunnel in Frozen, only frostbite and hypothermia awaits.The story follows three College kids and long time friends Joe (Shawn Ashmore), Dan (Kevin Zegers), and Joe's girlfriend Parker (Emma Bell) who are spending their Sunday skiing at a resort.
the basic premise of the film is this:a trio of friends,through a misunderstanding,end up stranded on a ski lift close to the top of the mountain.they soon realize that know one knows they are up there.it's a Sunday and the resort will not open again until the following Friday.somehow they have to find a way to survive.without giving too much away,this film is a bit gruesome in parts.once the film focuses on just the three friends,there's some character development,so you get to feel some empathy for them and hope they survive their ordeal.the three are likable characters,so that helps.i had no idea how the film would end up,but i know it didn't end up like i expected,so points for that.for me,Frozen is a 7/10.
However, just as you start to think it's your typical disaster movie; the horror is thrown at you in large doses.Adam Green's story of a few friends trapped on a ski lift is all of the above, and relies heavily on the "what if?" factor.
The girl was starting to lose it in the emotional scenes but other then that it was great coming from a low budget horror.This movie is about 3 friends who go to a mountain resort for some skiing and snowboarding.
'Frozen' tells the story of three snowboarders, Parker (Emma Bell), Joe (Shawn Ashmore) and Dan (Kevin Zegers) who are the last ones on a ski-lift before it is closed.
And even if they could get safely to the ground, there are wolves waiting for them - looks like they can only choose from three different ways to die?Great, suspenseful little movie which is a good example that a simple formula sometimes works best.
Adam Green's latest chiller-thriller, Frozen is about a trio of college kids who get stuck high and dry on a Ski-Resort's chair lift and their struggle for survival.Gotta admit, this is a funny idea for a movie.