Cleopatra Entertainment, with sales and distribution support provided by MVD Entertainment Group, has snagged director Brandon Slagle’s edge-of-your-seat thriller, Frost, for domestic DVD and Blu-ray distribution on Oct. 11.
Every now and then you get — as an audience member — a chance to talk to the screen. “Do that!” “No, no, don’t do that!” “I can’t believe she isn’t trying that.” Remember director Adam Green’s Frozen back in 2010 with the three college students stuck in the ski lift, alone, stranded, cold … death awaits unless they can figure out how to get out of their life-and-death predicament. Frost is that kind of movie.
The only way it works is if you are invested in the character. If you don’t care, it’s a 15-minute movie and you are on to something else.
Frost works because of the incredible performance of Devanny Pinn as Abby. She carries the film, she’s the one in peril and without her acting chops the film falls apart.
Indeed, we know Devanny Pinn as a Scream Queen, with numerous performances that have pleased genre fans … Crossbreed, Death Hotel, The Devil’s Nightmare, to name just a few, and as Susan Atkins in Slagle’s 2014 film release of House of Manson.
Here, she plays against type. She has arrived at her father’s place (played by Vernon Wells — The Road Warrior), who lives up in the mountains, to patch things up. She’s pregnant and he’s about to be a grandfather. It’s a good ice-breaker, he’s excited and suggests that they spend the afternoon fishing and relaxing at a nearby lake (filmed on location in the San Bernandino mountains) … and so off they go.
That’s the set-up, pregnant daughter, rugged, loner father on a quick drive up to a remote lake. Everything goes south, otherwise you would have a Hallmark movie, as they go careening down the side of the mountain. Abby is pinned in the wreckage and dear old dad knows that this is now life or death. At this point you are already talking to the screen … “do this … do that,” you know the drill.
Weather is coming in and her father knows that the only chance is for him to hike out and find help, sorry Abby, you are on your own, hurt, pinned in the wreckage of the car, exposed to the elements, and, oops, was that a contraction?
Frost is a survival film at its very best. We won’t give anything more away. Just know that Devanny Pinn (who was also the producer) makes you care, and therefore you are infested in the outcome.
The Blu-ray edition includes a CD of the soundtrack … Oct. 11 from Cleopatra Entertainment.
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