Ice Queen (film)

Ice Queen

DVD cover
Directed by Neil Kinsella
Produced by Peter Beckwith
David Giancola
Written by Peter Beckwith
Neil Kinsella
David R. Williams
Starring Ami Chorlton
Harmon Walsh
Noelle Reno
Jennifer Hill
Music by Richard Alan Salz
Cinematography D. Anthony Giancola
Edited by Neil Kinsella
Devin Robinson
Production
company
Edgewood Studios
Distributed by United States (home media):
MTI Home Video
Running time
92 minutes
Country United States
Language English

Ice Queen, originally titled Avalanche Run, is a 2005 American horror film co-written and directed by Neil Kinsella and starring Ami Chorlton. The principal photography was conducted in Vermont and the film was released directly to video on June 7, 2005 in the United States by the MTI Home Video media distributing company.

Plot

Deep in the Amazon Rainforest, a well-preserved woman dating from the ice age is found encased in amber. Her body is then loaded onto an airplane to be taken to a military facility where she can be studied by scientists. En route to the military base, the plane is hijacked by a renegade group whose intent is to sell the specimen to the government for a ransom. The plane crashes into a mountain ski resort causing an avalanche and trapping all of the vacationing teenagers inside of the hotel. The woman, whose body only functions when kept cold, awakens and begins randomly killing the survivors by freezing them from the inside. One of the teens has an uncle searching for them on the outside, but he too is battling his own demons which stem from his alcoholism. This leads to a delay in the arrival of assistance in the ski resort town. The final showdown occurs with Johnny pulling the sexually invigorated Ice Queen into a hot tub which dissolves her body.

Partial cast

Reception

Film Monthly praised the film's opening three minutes, and then spoke toward the film's subsequent perceived flaws in style, plot, and effects, concluding that while the film "suffers from some predictability in its plot, it develops some minor innovations that put it at a cut slightly above mediocre."[1]

Screenwriter David R. Williams wrote "Actually, only the opening scene where the military convoy gets attacked and the concept of the airplane crashing into a mountain side and causing an avalanche to cover the ski resort are mine", explaining that his original screenplay Avalanche Run went through major changes due to producers and directors rewriting the script.[2]

A sequel was planned soon after the film due to the ending of the original. However no plans for a sequel have been confirmed to this day.

See also

References

  1. Anderson, Steve. "review: Ice Queen". Film Monthly. Retrieved 7 January 2010.
  2. Williams, David R. (16 May 2006). "Please Don't Shoot The Writer or Not This One.". David R. Williams. Amazon.com. Retrieved 7 January 2010. line feed character in |work= at position 10 (help)

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