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Frozen (limited)
“Frozen is quite simply terrifying. It will do for skiing what Jaws did for swimming. It isn’t just a good movie – it’s proof that Adam Green is for real. Stunning cinematography, beautiful camerawork, a (mostly) solid screenplay and seasoned actors chill this project together into a solid, near perfect block of ice.”
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Editor’s Note: In the interest of full disclosure, Adam Green has become a friend of the site since Hatchet’s release.
This past year Hatchet director Adam Green took to the freezing slopes of Park City, Utah to show he’s more than just a splatter and gore filmmaker with his indie chiller Frozen, a suspense thriller following three skiers (Emma Bell, Shawn Ashmore, Kevin Zegers) that are mistakenly stranded on a chairlift and forced to make life-or-death choices that prove more perilous than staying put and freezing to death (early synopsis).
Even though the trio are trapped outdoors, Frozen is incredibly claustrophobic as they are stuck in one spot with absolutely nowhere to go. If they jump, they could break their legs, or even worse, be eaten by starving wolves. Yet, it’s so cold that they’re not going to last long sitting tight and waiting for help. Frostbite kicks in fast and the trio are forced to make some incredibly tough decisions.
It’s rare when a movie gets under my skin and truly affects me. Frozen played every single one of my emotional strings, which popped right off as I squirmed, yelled at the screen and pulled chunks of hair out of my head. Green has orchestrated a thriller that isn’t just a great film – it’s an impressive one.
What makes Frozen such a successful endeavor is Green’s ability to create tension, most of which stems from the technical side of the filmmaking process. He could have easily used green screens and shot on a sound stage, he instead opted to torture the cast and crew in the freezing cold of Utah, all for the sake of art. It’s a commendable decision that aids in the authentic experience that the audience is exposed to. Since the trio is trapped up high in the ski lift, this gave Green the opportunity to really play around and experiment with a crane camera, which he uses to craft some incredibly gorgeous shots. His establishing shots are detrimental in creating not only the desolate mood of the film, but also the freezing atmosphere. The audience is placed right on that ski lift and suffers right along with the trio.
The screenplay, penned by Green, is ambitious and could have easily yielded disaster. Once the trio gets stranded, Green has over an hour of screen time that is filled mostly with dialogue. This is where Frozen transcends greatness. To create a compelling, engaging and interesting movie with such a minimal amount of visual distractions is quite an accomplishment. In fact, to amplify the effects of his tense screenplay, Green opts to limit the score to mostly sound effects and ice-cold silence. Frozen is a tough movie on the viewer and physically draining to watch (and I mean this in a good way).
Kevin Zegers is one of the weaker aspects of the film, but he’s quickly drowned out by Emma Bells extraordinary performance. While Green’s decision to shoot on a real ski lift (in Park City, Utah) plays a huge role in the actor’s authentic performance (go visit if you want to see how cold it gets at night), Bell takes it to a whole new level; she might even bring tears to your eyes. Veteran genre actor Shawn Ashmore shouldn’t be overlooked, as his intense performance plays off Bell like the beautiful mix of peanut butter and chocolate. Looking back at how dialogue intensive Frozen truly is, Ashmore and Bell literally bring it all together.
Frozen is quite simply terrifying. It will do for skiing what Jaws did for swimming. It isn’t just a good movie – it’s proof that Adam Green is for real. Stunning cinematography, beautiful camerawork, a (mostly) solid screenplay and seasoned actors chill this project together into a solid, near perfect block of ice.
This week kicked off with the release of hippo horror movie Hungry at home, and four more horror movies have arrived for at-home viewing as we head into the final weekend of June.
Here are the new horror movies that released on Friday, June 26, 2026!
The Halloween season can no longer be contained to the months of September and October, with “Summerween” becoming a thing in recent years. Essentially, it allows for Halloween to bleed into the warmer Summer months, and the first ever Summerween movie has arrived.
The Asylum released Summerween onto Digital outlets today.
In the film from writer/director Ryan Ebert, “On Summerween, a former circus clown escapes a mental institution to return to his abandoned mansion and hunt the teens partying there.”
Cole Chapleski, Chase Breithoff, Logan Roe, Sophia Sabol, and Clint Morrison star.
Director Ryan Ebert is the man behind a string of recent indie horrors we’ve covered, including Shark Side of the Moon, The Jolly Monkey, Jurassic Reborn, and Predator: Wastelands.
A witchy coming-of-age story from Dark Sky Films, Camp is now playing in select theaters.
Check your local listings to find a theater near you.
Camp is from writer-director Avalon Fast (Honeycomb, The Serpent’s Skin).
“Emily is the root cause of two devastating tragedies very early in her life, and she feels the weight of these accidents as though cursed. At her father’s suggestion, she takes a position at a summer camp for troubled youth to ease her guilt. When Emily arrives, she is welcomed by the other counselors, who accept her as she is and surround her with peace and forgiveness.
“As Emily begins to believe in a new kind of life, she starts to hear a voice whispering from deep in the woods — one that urges her to go home, and one that may be impossible to ignore.”
The film stars Zola Grimmer in her screen debut alongside Alice Wordsworth, Cherry Moore, Lea Rose Sebastianis (Castration Movie Part 1 & 2, In A Violent Nature), Ella Reece, Austyn Van de Kamp (This Too Shall Pass), Sophie Bawks-Smith (Honeycomb), Izza Jarvis, and Aiden Laudersmith.
Producers Tyler Perry and Jason Blum have joined forces for Peacock Original Strung.
The film is now streaming only on Peacock.
“A talented violinist takes a prestigious job as a music tutor for the gifted daughter of an influential and enigmatic family. As she becomes entangled in their opulent world, unsettling secrets begin to surface, forcing her to question her safety, her dreams, and even her sanity.”
Malcolm D. Lee (Scary Movie 5, Space Jam: A New Legacy) directs from a script written by Alan B. McElroy (Wrong Turn, Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers).
Chloe Bailey (“Swarm“), Lynn Whitfield (Jaws: The Revenge), Lucien Laviscount (“Scream Queens”), Anna Diop (Us), Coco Jones (Vampires vs. the Bronx), Langley Kirkwood (“Banshee”), and Romy Woods star in Peacock’s Strung.
Produced by Diablo Cody, director Meredith Alloway’s Forbidden Fruits brought a new coven of witches to the big screen earlier this year, and it’s now streaming on Shudder.
Lola Tung (“The Summer I Turned Pretty”), Victoria Pedretti (“The Haunting of Hill House”), Alexandra Shipp (Tragedy Girls), Gabrielle Union (Breaking In), and Emma Chamberlain star in Forbidden Fruits, released by IFC and Shudder.
Free Eden employee Apple secretly runs a witchy femme cult in the basement of the mall store after hours. But when new hire Pumpkin challenges the group’s ‘girl boss’ ways, the women are forced to face their own poisons or succumb to a bloody fate.
“Forbidden Fruits grabbed me by the neck the very first time I read it,” Diablo Cody said. “It’s one of the craziest, most creative, beautifully bonkers projects I’ve ever worked on.”
Meagan Navarro writes in her review for Bloody Disgusting, “Forbidden Fruits may not necessarily forge new terrain in the teen satire space, but Alloway brings so much style and energy to her well-cast single-location stage play adaptation for the Gen Z crowd.”
The film is an adaptation of playwright Lily Houghton’s stage play Of the Women Came the Beginning of Sin and Through Her We All Die. Alloway and Houghton co-adapted.
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