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
- Ami Chorlton as Ice Queen
- Harmon Walsh as Johnny
- Noelle Reno as Tori
- Jennifer Hill as Elaine
- Daniel Hall Kuhn as Dr. Goddard
- Tara Walden as Audrey
- Peter Wyndorf as Devlin
- Demone Gore as Jessie
- John Romeo as Ed
- Neil Benedict as Mac
- Duncan Murdoch as Fresh-Face
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
- ↑ Anderson, Steve. "review: Ice Queen". Film Monthly. Retrieved 7 January 2010.
- ↑ 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.