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Craig S. (InnerMacro) from WAUSAU, WI
Reviewed on 8/22/2024...

A dialogue-heavy hour depicting what must have been a cutting edge concept for 1964 - cryogenics. A scientist-come-test-subject is accused of murder, but AFTER he enters the cryo chamber. He didn't murder his wife (she shot herself by accident), but the scientist performing the experiment is left with the ethical choice of bringing him out of his freeze to face prison, or leaving him be. This sounds much better than it plays out. Perhaps the more interesting part of the film is the weird relationship the male scientist has with his drunkard wife. She is cheating on him, which he apparently knows about, and does nothing. Meanwhile, she accuses him of being in love with his co-scientist, which he denies vehemently. Then, moments later, he's making passes at the denied woman as if the previous scene never happened. By the time we reach the extended climax scene, we're not sure if we care either way what happens to him. The ending is one of relief as the scientists are happily together, despite the immediate death of his wife. What? Maybe if the movie were a full two hours, this could have been explained better, but I'm not sure it would have mattered. Probably better to get through the plot in one hour and be done with it.

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Freezer Burned...

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."