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Bindy Sue Frønkünschtein | under the rubble | 09/15/2006

(3 out of 5 stars)

"FROZEN ALIVE is a sci-fi yarn about experiments in cryogenics. The set up is decent, w/ scientists doing their work in the lab while, unbeknownst to them, a drunken / jealous wife gets closer and closer to doing something disastrously stupid. Unfortunately, this movie suffers from it's own long-winded telling of this tale. If it had been about 30 min. shorter, it would have made a great Twilight Zone episode! As it is, it's not a total waste, but seems padded out..."

Not so bad - but not too good, either

Risto Rasilainen | Vantaa, Finland | 03/15/2009

(3 out of 5 stars)

"By today's standards, as far as technical aspects and narrative pace are considered, Frozen Alive is quite mediocre and definitely very much a B movie. However, it has its merits, namely: the basic idea of the story - which I will not give up here - works pretty well. The main actors handle their roles OK. For anyone interested in spaghetti westerns it's nice to see Marianne Koch of The Fistful of Dollars fame in another movie made in the same year as Leone's groundbreaking first western film. Koch is quite good here, in a speaking role - with Leone's film she only had her good looks, as there were hardly any lines to speak for her as Marisol. Veteran actor Mark Stevens does his job very professionally, too. The story would have worked OK as a 30 or 45 minute episode in Alfred Hitchcock Presents TV series. For a feature film it's somewhat too long, even though one does see it through without getting bored."