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There's not enough here for 90 minutes.
Frozen is good for five minutes of "What would you do if?" games. Then it's just stiff as a board.
A stuck chairlift just doesn't exert the same primal terror as a roiling sea, and to make up the difference, Green would need a better cast and sharper dialogue than he has here.
Another date movie-horror flick designed to scare tentative couples into each other's arms.
Tthe script is clunky, the acting strained. Too bad. Underlying the life-and-death thriller are notions about the ways coupledom changes and challenges friendships.
The performances and what passes for dialogue -- mostly extended bickering and screaming -- are so lackluster that it's hard to care about the fate of this trio for long.
Characters possess serious lack of thinking ability and survival skills. Even when it comes to stuff like zipping up their coats all the way.
Adam Green's fun 2006 horror film Hatchet revelled in the art of self-aware pastiche, but it is in his second major work that he has found a legitimately great concept out of which to wring more nuanced thrills.
The parts of the film that work are flat-out fantastic. There just aren't enough of them.
Like Jack London's 'To Build a Fire,' this is an exercise in extracting suspense from the circumstances of a harsh wintry environment and a bad situation rather than imposing danger in the form of an outside (and potentially vanquishable) foe.
Green’s nifty framing, dawning-dread pacing, and fixation on corporeal deterioration proves sturdy.
The characters, situation, and dialogue are stretched a bit thin.
While making the occasional narrative misstep, this is effective low-budget filmmaking, and undoubtedly a notch better than what usually passes as suspense these days.
Frozen is a ludicrous, uneven horror film that still successfully puts the screws to the audience.
The movie has a good flow, and it understands how to generate thrills, but the characters, situation and dialogue are stretched a bit thin.
Green orchestrates all this with some skill but not too much gore. A minor tour de force.
However much fun it is to watch, it's a lot more fun to pull it apart afterwards.
Sustains interest and tension with some inventive plotting and gratuitous misfortune, aided by a cast convincingly scared witless, even if their characters left me, well, rather cold.
Armed with an appealingly pared-down premise, Frozen effectively establishes itself as one of the best horror films of its kind to come around since Open Water.
Impressively directed and genuinely suspenseful, this is a hugely entertaining thriller with a superb script and terrific performances from its three leads.
This minimalist thriller offers the same endurance-test nightmare as Open Water, only here the imperilled characters are marooned on a mountain, and wolves substitute for the sharks.
Fiendish, sweaty and tense as hell. One to watch through the fingers.
With believable characters, a real sense of terror and that terrific whatwould-you-do? plot, Frozen works on every level. A proper chiller.
The taut set-up is enjoyable all by itself, but it's the rising tide of three-way recriminations and despair that gives this film emotional clout.
It's a stunt film that only just overcomes the challenge it's set itself.
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