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Frost (2012) New Release


Very much maligned, this film hasn't been around for very long without subtitles in English, so unless you'd bought it yourself, which I did (£4), a lot of subtlety may have whistled past your frostbitten earballs.
Agreed: found footage (more Chronicle than comical).
Agreed: Slow paced, and only intermittent with its unrevealed 'deadly force'.
Disagreed: Everyone who said "it's crap, it's so bad, nothing's going on, they talk foreign". They do talk exceedingly foreign though.

The one nagging thought about this film was merely a 'what if' whereby the what was Kristoffer Joners and the if were to be "This is how Universal is treating a prequel to The Thing".

Though it exudes a demanding comparison just from the sleeve, it's by no means in mr JC's, though perhaps it tops the dickhead at Universal who cut off Van Heiningjen's arms and legs whilst making his effort , to say nothing of the bringers of the Harbinger project over at ADI (?) whose work was swept aside by corporate in favour of crappy obvious CGI.
Though, I digest.

Already nominated for two awards at this time, I don't believe for a second (I have my proof already) there's no market for this.

It is beautifully framed against the Scandinavian Glacier-emptiness, it IS tense, and the characters are developed enough that you cling to them in this desolate icehole of a place to endure.

It's not a film to give 14 yr-old boys a stiffy, it's philosophical, thought provoking, hashtag-themed, mysterious, and if it feels a little unfinished, I personally quite hope there's more to tell.

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