FROZEN works because we can actually imagine being stuck in that situation. Ok, I’ve never been skiing, but I’ve been in a lift and I know ski lifts are real, so the horror stems from empathy and dread of something similar befalling me. Vampires and ghosts, Werewolves and Demons makes for great fantasy fear, but we are safely at one remove from the imaginary terrors that filmmakers conjure. I’ll always find Last House on the Left more disturbing than Friday the 13th movies, not just because it’s darker and nastier, but because Jason is a superhuman myth whereas Krug and Company are a very real gang of sociopaths.

Just to illustrate that this kind of thing happens all the time, here’s a frightening real life story about a man who survived being trapped aboard a ski-lift by burning money to draw attention to himself… CLICK

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If you were trapped, swinging high above the rapidly cooling slopes, your thoughts might become pretty morbid. That’s what happens to the cast of FROZEN, who pose the question “What’s the worst way to die?” while they dangle precariously…

Of course, the worst thing about being trapped on a wire at night is that, when a snow plow eventually does turn up, all the noise, wind and low visability mean the chances of being spotted are slim to none…

Frozen (Momentum Pictures) will be released in UK cinemas from 24th September 2010.

Frozen (cert. 15) will be released on DVD (£15.99) and Blu-ray (£19.99) by Momentum Pictures on 18th October 2010.