labng I've been on a ski lift exactly once. Had I seen this film prior, I would definitely have listened to my little voice and skipped it. The situation these kids find themselves in is terrifying-- kind of like getting your foot caught in the train tracks. The intensity continues to ratchet up steadily throughout. I found it a little reminiscent of "The Descent" in that way, which is high praise.

goibniu001 Two guys and a girl on an abandoned ski-lift. Guys get off ski-lift trying to rescue girl. Guys get eaten by wolves. Girl gets off ski-lift accidentally, and wolves ignore her. Girl heroically climbs (slides) down mountain and is saved. Rubbish.I fell asleep.

sddavis63 I absolutely love movies that make me unsettled and queasy; movies that from time to time even force me to close my eyes because I just can't take it anymore. Kudos to "Frozen." It managed to pull all that off brilliantly. Not long ago I had watched "247 Degrees Fahrenheit," and in the course of reading reviews of that movie came across some references to this one, and had to watch it. "247 Degrees Fahrenheit" was about a group of friends trapped in a sauna and dying from the heat. "Frozen" presents the opposite scenario. In this, a group of three friends go ski-ing for the day and are accidentally stranded on the ski lift after the ski hill closes down. They're high above the ground, it's bitterly cold, it's totally dark because the lights have been shut off, there's a snowstorm starting and the hill is going to be closed for a week. At first they think someone will realize what's happened and they'll be quickly rescued, but soon reality sets in. They're trapped. Possibly for days. They could easily die. How can they save themselves?It's actually a pretty simple movie. Most of it is set in the ski lift chair. "Minimalistic" suits this. Low budget as well. But the story works, the plight is real. You empathize with these people; you almost suffer with them. Dan (Kevin Zegers) decides that the only thing that could save them is for him to risk jumping off the chair and hopefully being able to go for help. He tries. He breaks his legs horribly. It's graphic. It's quease inducing. We hear howling. There's obviously a pack of wolves nearby. Dan is injured and bloodied and completely helpless. The wolves close in and attack. It's quease inducing. Dan's friend Joe (Shawn Ashmore) tries next. He'll try to pull himself hand over hand along the ski lift cable to a nearby tower with a ladder. The cable is sharp. His hands are bloodied. He tries, he gives up, he tries again. He's way up high clinging to a cable. It's quease inducing. He makes it to the tower and comes down - and encounters the wolves. His fate is a mystery for a while. Finally there's Parker (Emma Bell) left on the chair all alone. She's terrified and suffering badly from frost bite. In some ways the saddest parts of the movie are when Parker talks about her puppy that she left at home who's going to starve waiting for her to come home to feed him, and then when she just can't "hold it" anymore and she pees her pants. She's humiliated, and you feel for her. You really do. The chair is starting to slip off the cable - which works to her advantage. It gets low enough that she can jump. She alone manages to escape - coming across Joe's body, half eaten by the wolves, along the way.At times this is terrifying. At times this is sad. You get drawn into the plight of the characters. I'm totally unfamiliar with Zegers, Ashmore and Bell but I thought they did a superb job. I'm giving this a 10 - not because I think it's Oscar-worthy or anything like that (or even one of the best movies ever made.) I'm giving it a 10 because it brought forth some very raw feelings and reactions from me, in a way that movies very rarely are able to do. And, after watching this, I am convinced that I will never, ever take up ski-ing. Never.

ninasimone2018 first i thought it was based on true story. after few skipping of the boring scenes i realized it was more of a final destination type of flick even those were more plausible. it could have been a good 'survival' thriller if those details were worked out so that the audience with a bit of common sense wouldn't be offended or annoyed. ignoring the unlikely-to-happen details like the wolfs and ski resort being closed next day, even with a bit of common sense the youngsters would not make such fatal mistakes such as: rope from clothing or using the ski pole, also ski pole was used to defend against wolfs for second guy why not first?, jumping down carefully with knees up your chin from the lowest height ? climbing first on cable with feet as well with more padded protected hands done by piece of clothing perhaps, when jumping from broken lift knowing it will fall down as well and not rolling fast out of the way...movie must have been written by the blondie that held the rail by bare hand while having a glove on the other hand.