History Film / Frozen2010

** While the trio are trying to get onto the ski lift at the start of the film, an overhead announcement reminds skiers that the resort will be open again next Friday though Sunday. When they're trapped on the lift, Parker starts to panic as she remembers this, and realises they'll be stuck there all week.

* IdiotBall: Everyone at some point, but certainly Dan for [[spoiler:attempting a jump from the lift chair, at a height ''far'' too high to be safe even to a casual viewer]]. All 3 characters don't even wear their gear correctly (such as '''zipping up their jackets or pulling up their hoods''') and toss away multiple useful items in futile attempts to be rescued or shoo off wolves.

* SavageWolves: A number of predatory wolves are waiting to devour the protagonists. [[spoiler: Ultimately, they eat Dan and then Joe.]] Can be unintentionally hilarious if you know something about wolf body language - many of the "savage" wolves are wagging their tails, a friendly gesture among adult wolves.[[note]]They probably were taking cues from an off-camera trainer and, since they were hitting all their marks, anticipating treats afterward, and ones probably not made from human flesh.[[/note]]

* MenAreTheExpendableGender [[spoiler:Both men die while the woman lives.]]

''Frozen'' is a 2010 drama/thriller hybrid, written and directed by Adam Green (the same guy who did ''Film/{{Hatchet}}'') and starring Emma Bell, Creator/KevinZegers, Creator/ShawnAshmore, and Creator/KaneHodder, about three young people who end up trapped on a skilift during a snowstorm, with wolves under them and no rescue available for 5 days...

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[[caption-width-right:250: If you don't want to be wolf chow,[softreturn]hold on tight and don't [[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 let it go]].]]

''Frozen'' is a 2010 drama/thriller hybrid written and directed by Adam Green (the same guy who did ''Film/{{Hatchet}}'') and starring Emma Bell, Creator/KevinZegers, Creator/ShawnAshmore, and Creator/KaneHodder, about three young people who end up trapped on a skilift during a snowstorm, with wolves under them and no rescue available for 5 days...

* IfWeGetThroughThis: Joe states, semi-facetiously, that after their ordeal is over he’s going to marry the girl who gave him her phone number.[[spoiler:He winds up dying before this can happen.]]

'''NEVER''' [[SimilarlyNamedWorks to be confused with]] the Creator/{{Disney}} animated film, ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}''.

'''NEVER''' [[NamesTheSame to be confused with]] the Creator/{{Disney}} animated film, ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}''.

'''DEFINITELY''' [[NamesTheSame not to be confused with]] the Creator/{{Disney}} animated film, ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}''.

* CellPhonesAreUseless: Not useless, the characters just left them in their lockers. A case of ShownTheirWork, as many skiers tend to leave they phones in lockers because they are easy to break/lose on resort mountains, and in 2009 when the film was made, many resorts were infamous for having spotty reception.

* FinalGirl: [[spoiler:Parker.]]

* ShoutOut: The names of the two male leads are names of two of Adam Green's friends. Joe also says that the worst way to die is being eaten by a shark and knowing it, a possible ShoutOut to ''Film/OpenWater''. Also, the [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi Sarlacc Pit]] is mentioned during the "worst way to die" conversation.

* SimilarlyNamedWorks: This movie nearly became completely forgotten, due to sharing its title with a certain Disney movie that came out a few years later and far surpassed it in popularity.

* CaliforniaDoubling: Utah stands in for a sensationalized version of New England's wilderness.

** People complained that people could ''never'' be forgotten on a chairlift... but it has actually happened. In truth, many ski resorts take extra steps to prevent such incidents from happening, like stopping loading after marking a chair with a cone or by flipping up the seats of every chair after a certain last chair, or simply having an employee ride the lift in a full loop. The operator does place a red flag on one of the chairs and tells his relief about Parker, Dan and Joe, but doesn't mention there was another group ahead them, so when the replacement attendant sees three skiers at the bottom and assumes they were the skiers he was talking about, he shuts down the lift. [[note]] [[https://abcnews.go.com/Travel/trapped-ski-lift-tourist-escapes-death-burning-cash/story?id=9886943 Barely two weeks after the film's release, a snowboarder in the Austrian Alps was accidentally left stranded on a lift in much the same way as the film's characters, but thankfully he was rescued after a few hours and only suffered mild hypothermia.]] He mentioned that he wanted to sue the lift operator for not properly checking the lift after it was shut down for the day, but the resort countered that the lift wasn't meant to be used for ''descending'' the mountain and shouldn't have needed to be checked, and the man would have had to ignore several warning signs and barriers to get on it in the first place.[[/note]]

* SenselessSacrifice : [[spoiler:Dan jumps down from the ski lift and breaks his legs. He was then devoured by wolves that neither had any idea were there and Dan had overestimated his abilities. It was all for nothing.]]

* TorturePorn: All of the suffering, [[spoiler:death]], and trauma the characters go through, all for [[spoiler:illegal entry into]] and [[spoiler:getting one last ride at a ski resort as it was closing.]]

* UpperClassTwit: All 3 of the main characters are spoiled college kids from Massachusetts. They are so self-destructively inept at survival in the wild that it's cringy to watch.

* BravingTheBlizzard: The heroes get marooned on a chair-lift during a terrible snowstorm. Completely trapped, they slowly succumb to the elements, and the main character is shown suffering sever frostbite.

%%* DevelopingDoomedCharacters

* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: Pretty much everyone but Parker either dies or is never seen again after a brief appearance.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: The main characters from the get-go, starting with having no lift tickets, riding the lift so close to closing time right before a storm, and of course Dan thinking that he can jump 40 or 50 some-odd feet from the lift chair.

* TheHeroDies: Dan, sort of. He is a nice guy, has a heroic attitude and is the first person to take action to find a way out of their predicament. Ultimately though, his idea of jumping from the chair is hare-brained and incapacitates him before he can accomplish anything. Then of course he lies helpless as the wolves finish him off.

* IdiotBall: Everyone at some point, but certainly Dan for attempting a jump from the lift chair, at a height FAR too high to be safe even to a casual viewer. All 3 characters don't even wear their gear correctly (such as ZIPPING UP THEIR JACKETS) and toss away multiple useful items in futile attempts to be rescued or shoo off wolves.

* MisplacedWildlife: What the heck are wolves doing at a ski resort in New England? Also, why did they only come out at night?

** People complained that people could ''never'' be forgotten on a chairlift... but it has actually happened. In truth, many ski resorts take extra steps to prevent such incidents from happening, like stopping loading after marking a chair with a cone or by flipping up the seats of every chair after a certain last chair, or simply having an employee ride the lift in a full loop. The operator does place a red flag on one of the chairs and tells his relief about Parker, Dan and Joe, but doesn't mention there was another group ahead them, so when the replacement attendant sees three skiers at the bottom and assumes they were the skiers he was talking about, he shuts down the lift. [[note]] [[https://abcnews.go.com/Travel/trapped-ski-lift-tourist-escapes-death-burning-cash/story?id=9886943 Barely two weeks after the film's release, a snowboarder in the Austrian Alps was trapped in much the same way as the film's characters, but thankfully he was rescued after a few hours and only suffered mild hypothermia.]] He mentioned that he wanted to sue the lift operator for not properly checking the lift after it was shut down for the day, but the resort countered that the lift wasn't ''meant'' for downward trips and shouldn't have needed to be checked, and the man would have had to ignore several warning signs and barriers to get on it in the first place.[[/note]]

** Inverted when the film decides to show you [[spoiler:Dan's twisted, bloody, and broken legs after jumping off the ski-lift, and when it shows Joe's mutilated corpse after he gets devoured.]]

* SimilarlyNamedWorks: This movie nearly became completely forgotten, due to sharing its title with a certain Disney movie that came out a few years later.