"Hatchet" and "Spiral" - two movies that did little to nothing for me. "Hatchet" couldn't decide whether it wanted to be funny or scary and ultimately failed to be either. "Spiral" was just a mess, made all the less bearable by Joel Moore's annoying performance.
"Frozen" has got a big plus: Moore isn't in it. Also, the premise isn't half bad. However, the story of three people being stuck on a skilift seemed to need somebody who knew how to craft a plot with such a claustrophobic setting. To be honest, I didn't think that writer/director Adam Green was up for the task. He proved me wrong.
Although "Frozen" isn't entirely without its flaws, it keeps you thrilled throughout. The characters aren't perfectly written, but they are neither annoyingly stupid nor stereotypical in any way, and that is harder to achieve than it may sound.
Also, one might think that the possibilities of where the story could go are fairly limited when it comes to three people being stuck in one place, but Green somehow finds a way of always moving the plot forward when it needs to. Even though I felt as though in some places the dialog could still have been trimmed a bit, there was never a minute where you were actually taken out of the movie because it was slowing down too much. The same goes for the movie's sense of realism: Although some things are not entirely believable, "Frozen" never actually goes over the top.
Adam Green finally made a movie that justifies his reputation in the horror genre (even though this is more of a thriller than anything else). Too bad, that he went back to the "Hatchet" franchise for his next project. Hopefully, once we're over with that, he'll move on to more interesting things.
"Frozen" has got a big plus: Moore isn't in it. Also, the premise isn't half bad. However, the story of three people being stuck on a skilift seemed to need somebody who knew how to craft a plot with such a claustrophobic setting. To be honest, I didn't think that writer/director Adam Green was up for the task. He proved me wrong.
Although "Frozen" isn't entirely without its flaws, it keeps you thrilled throughout. The characters aren't perfectly written, but they are neither annoyingly stupid nor stereotypical in any way, and that is harder to achieve than it may sound.
Also, one might think that the possibilities of where the story could go are fairly limited when it comes to three people being stuck in one place, but Green somehow finds a way of always moving the plot forward when it needs to. Even though I felt as though in some places the dialog could still have been trimmed a bit, there was never a minute where you were actually taken out of the movie because it was slowing down too much. The same goes for the movie's sense of realism: Although some things are not entirely believable, "Frozen" never actually goes over the top.
Adam Green finally made a movie that justifies his reputation in the horror genre (even though this is more of a thriller than anything else). Too bad, that he went back to the "Hatchet" franchise for his next project. Hopefully, once we're over with that, he'll move on to more interesting things.