Frozen Scream

Frozen Scream
DVD cover
Directed by Frank Roach
Produced by Renee Harmon
Screenplay by
Story by
  • Renee Harmon
  • Doug Ferrin
Starring
  • Renee Harmon
  • Lynne Kocol
  • Wolf Muser
Music by H. Kingsley Thurber
Cinematography Roberto A. Quezada
Edited by Matthew Muller
Release date
  • 1980 (1980)
Running time
 85 minutes[1]
Country United States
Language English

Frozen Scream is a 1980[1] American horror film directed by Frank Roach. It stars Renee Harmon, who also produced and co-wrote the story.

Plot

A mad scientist tries to create a drug for immortality. Before he manages to test it however he is kidnapped by his fellow scientists who are part of a cult who believe that the drug plus low temperatures will be able to create frozen zombies. The missing scientist's wife calls on her ex-boyfriend, a detective who is on the kidnapping case, to help her.

Cast

  • Renee Harmon - Lil Stanhope
  • Lynne Kocol - Anne Girard
  • Wolf Muser - Tom Girard
  • Thomas Gowen - Kevin McGuire
  • Wayne Liebman - Father O'Brien
  • Lee James - Sven Johnsson
  • Sunny Bartholomew - Cathrin
  • Bill Oliver - Bob Russell
  • Bob Rochelle - Kirk Richard
  • Ben Moase - Man at Party

Release

Frozen Scream was briefly prosecuted in the UK under the "video nasties" but was withdrawn from prosecution.[1]

Critical reception

AllMovie called the film an "unintentionally surreal" and "highly bizarre experience psychotronic devotees should enjoy enduring."[1] Writing in The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia, academic Peter Dendle called it a "dismal and homely backyard effort".[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Beldin, Fred. "Frozen Scream (1980)". AllMovie. Retrieved 13 August 2012.
  2. ↑ Dendle, Peter (2001). The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia. McFarland & Company. pp. 69–70. ISBN 978-0-7864-9288-6.


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