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Writer-director Adam Green has created a claustrophobic masterpiece that explores the darkest depths of humanity trapped in a winter that no one has survived.
When the chairlift breaks down, Melissa George and Shawn Ashmore play two strangers in awe as they struggle to stay alive against the harshest of elements.
Green, cut off from all rescue, methodically builds up unease as the cold becomes his worst enemy, pushing his stars to visceral limits one couldn't imagine enduring.
Yet beneath the breathtaking vistas of isolation lurks an emotional thread, as their bond deepens out of sheer necessity, not choice. Resistance becomes complicity, morality becomes grey.
Kevin Zegers contributes to the growing chaos, slowly fracturing under the pressure until one wonders how long before civility dies in us all. Green balances this tightrope masterfully.
A landmark independent film, Frozen pushes you to the edge of terror and rawness, something a studio film would never dare. Its chilling finale will forever etch it into the horror canon.
It grossed $20 million at the box office on a meagre budget of $1 million,