GamerTab
That was an excellent one.
AniInterview
Sorry, this movie sucks
Ariella Broughton
It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.
Jerrie
It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...
Woodyanders
A couple of mad scientists are trying to find the secret of immortality, so abduct and kill folks, plant these chips in their necks, and bring them back to life as murderous zombies who are kept on ice when they aren't embarking on killing sprees. Young lass Ann Girard (a hopelessly awful performance by fetching brunette Lynne Kocol) decides to investigate things, but naturally only places herself in great jeopardy in the process.Man, does this astonishing atrocity possess all the right wrong stuff to rate highly as a real four-star stinkeroonie: We've got seriously bungled (non)direction by Frank Roach, wonky sound complete with obvious dubbed-in-post dialogue, a rambling nonsensical story that unfolds at a plodding pace, tacky gore, crazy guys running around in cowls (one of these guys offs a cute hound dog at one point!), a cheesy synthesizer score, ragged editing, rough cinematography, a goofy nightmare sequence, loads of tedious talk, ineptly staged murder set pieces, dreadful acting by a lame no-name cast (Rene Harmon as the evil Dr. Lil Stanhope cops the top thespic dishonors thanks to her off-center line readings and thick borderline incomprehensible Teutonic accent), clumsy overuse of narration to fill in gaping plot holes, a band at a Halloween party performing an incredible ditty called "Jack Around the Shack," and even a surprise bummer nihilistic ending. A real schlocky hoot.
rondo-aura
'Our ... minds play ... strange tricks ... on ... us.' By the time you get to this line (or rather, if you make it as far as this) congratulate yourself for sitting through perhaps one of the most insanely bad horror films ever made. This film is so bad, it makes stuff like 'Blood Shack' look like a masterpiece of tension and suspense. What actually steals the show in 'Frozen Scream' is the soundtrack. For sure, this is one soundtrack you will never forget. In fact, the farting synth sounds are quite practical as they rouse you when you're starting to fade away. And believe me you will fade away during this one... For the casual viewer this is one to avoid, but I guess there must be about ten of you out there who will take that as a recommendation. (In that case enjoy, because really guys this IS that bad ;) Lovely, in an insane sort of way.
Paul Andrews
Frozen Scream begins with a shot of waves rolling up against a beach. We then get a super-imposed Doctor Lil Stanhope (producer Renee Harmon) appear 'over' the waves. In a totally ridiculous European accent she says "ever since the the creation of life man has dreamed of immortality. But the pursuit of eternal life has always been devoured by death itself." It's the dead of night, a young couple (Gary Pearl and Cheryl Crandal) are taking a late night swim in their pool. Suddenly a weird looking guy (Paul Yamanian) in a hooded cloak kills them both. I don't know why as I don't remember ever seeing them again or being mentioned. Ann Gerrard (Lynne Kocol) phones her husband Tom (Wolf Muser) at home from a public phone box, I'm not really sure why. Tom seems anxious and uneasy. After speaking with Ann, Tom tries to call Father O'Brian (Wayne Liebman) but he is unavailable. Tom then receives a threatening phone call, he is overpowered by two men in hooded cloaks, Kirk Richard (Bob Rochelle) and Bob Russel (Bill Oliver). One of them has a needle hidden inside his sock! Whats wrong with your pocket, mate? They inject him with the needle, but they are disturbed by Ann and run off. The next day Ann wakes up in a hospital bed, her friend Dr. Lil Stanhope is looking after her. Ann is told that Tom died of a heart attack, but she keeps claiming to have seen him murdered. A friend of Ann's, Detective Kevin McGuire (Thomas Gowen) is at the hospital to question Lil over the disappearance of two of her and Doctor Sven Johnson's (Lee James) students, Kirk and Bob, from a class they both teach. Lil claims she doesn't know anything about it. Lil meets up with Dr. Johnson and says she is worried by Ann and her persistence in claiming Tom was murdered. Lil asks if she should stay with her but Johnson replies "no my dear, I'm too fond of your company in my bedroom!" Wow, he sure knows how to charm the ladies! Ann is discharged and driven home by Lil. During this scene the film goes into a flashback. It's a confusing sequence that itself is inter cut (a flashback within a flashback maybe?) with a scene of the killer from the opening burying a hatchet into a girls (Chris Russell) head, again this has no purpose whatsoever and she is never seen or mentioned again. Back to the main flashback and it involves Lil, Sven Father O'Brian, Tom, Ann, plus some of their students Kirk, Bob and a busty nurse named Catherine (Sunny Bartholomew) sitting on the beach from the opening sequence chanting stupid dialogue. Back in the present, Ann together with Kevin start to suspect that Sven and Lil are up to no good. Sven and Lil are holding a Halloween party at their house and Ann decides to go and have a look around and see what she can find. Once there she discovers a lab in the basement and overhears Sven talking about having to get rid of her. She tries to escape and finds a refrigerated room which Tom, Kirk and Bob are standing in, seemingly frozen. Kevin turns up and like the total idiot he is gets himself run over and taken to hospital. Ann is on her own as she discovers what Sven and Lil are really up to. Dr. Johnson confesses all, first he talks about Tom "death was simulated by slowing down his body processes then we revived him at a lower body temperature and injected a chemical acceleration of healing functions to sustain life. The lower temperature is the prime key." He also talks about cranial circuitry and other such rubbish that doesn't make any sense. What it boils down to is that they have created mindless zombies while trying to find the answer to immortality. This obscure film from the mid 70's directed by Frank Roach is as bad as horror cinema gets, it's simply awful in every way imaginable. The music by H. Kingsley Thurber is exactly the same that was later reused in Don't go in the Woods (1982). There is no blood, gore, violence or nudity except for a shard of glass in someones eye and an axe in someones forehead, and that's it. The entire film sounds dubbed, it barely has any sound effects and when it does they sound poor, in one scene when Ann is running away from a zombie the sound of her high heels on the soundtrack don't match her feet movement on the screen. The acting is awful, no one puts any effort in at all, in fact the entire cast would have been perfect playing mindless zombies because that's how they act. The editing is awful, we get random shots inserted in scenes that appear out of place, it makes it a real eyesore to sit through. The way the plot is revealed is poorly done as it becomes confusing and very easy to lose interest. The script and dialogue are awful, check out what Lil says to the zombie Kirk in her 'comedy German' accent, "stop right there Kwirk, listen to me Kwirk, can you feel whats happening? It's all over. Feel your forehead Kwirk, that's right it's hot in here. Your usefulness is over, immortals live in the cool of the clouds, but you are burning because you are in hell!" After she's said that to kirk he falls over dead, for no reason other than she said that stupid few lines of dialogue! This is awful. The sort of film that the fast forward button was invented for, I have watched loads of low budget horror films and this has to be one of the worst I've endured. It commits the mortal sin of being boring, uninteresting, unexciting and throughly dull. A total waste of time. I hated just about every lame second of it, quite simply Frozen Scream sucks.
callanvass
totally wretched flick is badly dubbed very cheap and horribly acted with some extremely inane dialog and ineptly written this is one horrible time now it was somewhat watchable but never amusing because it is so damn cheap and the effects are just wretched and the ending is as lame as it gets there is lots of blood but very fake looking and what the hell is up with those annoying voice overs and does this even have a plot now this is better then blood shack but not by much this is out of print probably and it's best it stays that way so you don't have to sit through the torture and what is up with the zombies frozen zombies???????????? give me a break anyway i am not going to spend any more time on this piece of cow dung avoid it BOMB out of 5