It tells the story of three friends stranded in a chairlift after a day of skiing, forced to make life-or-death choices in order to survive and get down.

[2][3] Dan Walker, his girlfriend Parker O'Neal, and his best friend Joe Lynch travel to a ski resort to enjoy a day on the slopes.

On the evening of their final night, the three friends convince the ski lift operator to let them go on one last run down the mountain before the resort closes for the week due to incoming weather.

With the razor sharp cable having severely injured his hands, Joe makes it onto a nearby support tower, clambering down the service ladder.

As she stands in the chair, the securing bolt disconnects and the lift falls to a few meters above the ground, now held aloft by a single tether wire.

[10] On February 5, the film had multiple screens in areas in Boston, New York, Los Angeles,[11] Salt Lake City, Dallas, Denver, Philadelphia, Minneapolis and Chicago.

[16] A soundtrack album consisting of the film's complete score, composed by Andy Garfield, was released by 2M1 Records Group in January 2011.

The site's critics consensus reads: "Writer/director Adam Green has the beginnings of an inventive, frightening yarn in Frozen, but neither the script nor the cast are quite strong enough to truly do it justice.

[18] Critic Richard Roeper called the film "an entertaining, suspense-filled, sometimes wonderfully grotesque little scarefest",[19] though The Hollywood Reporter commented that it "is not written, directed, or acted well enough to be a first-rate thriller".

[20] Jeannette Catsoulis of The New York Times made it a NYT Critics' Pick and wrote, "A minimalist setup delivers maximum fright in Frozen, a nifty little chiller that balances its cold terrain with an unexpectedly warm heart.

"[21] Peter Debruge of Variety wrote, "Don’t be surprised if the movie’s most wince-inducing moments come not from the "disturbing images" (as the MPAA describes the sight of a leg bone sticking six inches out of one character's ski pants) but rather of the bad acting and worse dialogue.