Frozen In Fear (2001)

 

 

Frozen In Fear (or The Flying Dutchman if you go by it’s 2000 title) is another made for TV movie but due to some nudity I’m not sure what channel it was made for.  Starring is Eric Roberts as reclusive artist Sean who lives in a remote part of Montana (I thought all of Montana was remote) who’s artwork attracts the attention of Lacy (Catherine Oxenberg; Lair of the White Worm and Shartopus Vs. Whalewolf) who owns an art gallery in Seattle. She travels to Montana to find Sean and to see if he has any other art she can acquire for her exhibit.  The only problem is Sean lives in a town called Dark Hollow which is nuttier than squirrel poo!  Legendary actor Rod Steiger plays Sean’s friend Ben.  Scott Plank (L.A. Takedown and Melrose Place) is the always town drunk and the sometimes town sheriff.  Rod Steigers’ real life wife Joan plays Moira the innkeeper.  And when a film has very few promo or stock photos you use what you can get.  Hence the photos for this entry.  

 

  

 

 

Well, oh dear, we do have a mess here, Den of Geek called this movie the biggest pile of shite that anyone could have the misfortune to sit through.  Sadly, they might be right.  As much as I praise Eric Roberts for his work in The Pope of Greenwich Village, here he proves that acting abilities don’t always run in the family.  If Rod Steiger is in the scene, consider it stolen because unlike most everyone else, he actually knows how to act.  And act well he does.  I have to make mention of one moment that had me laughing my ass off.  Let me set the scene:  Lacy, after having met Sean, has sex with him several times at his cabin by the lake.  When she decides she has to go back to Seattle he grabs her arm and says “Wait!”.  She then responds with “You can talk!”.  How did I not notice the two of them had never spoken before that moment?  What?  

 

 

 

 

 Something else I want to mention about this is it’s been compared to Silence of the Lambs, and described as a retelling of House of Wax (1953) and The Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) which is a stretch but OK, I sort of see it, still, no.  Another thing I want to complain about with this film is everything and I mean EVERYTHING is loud except for the dialogue.  Now I guess I have to score this don’t I?  Let’s give this two classic pieces of music from Richard Wagner out of five.  It is difficult to sit through this as Den of Geek stated especially when it’s a boring three hour long horror film.  Hold on, I’m being told the film is actually only an hour and a half.  Oh, holy Christ!