ThedevilChoose When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Cooktopi The acting in this movie is really good.

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Lela The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Rainey Dawn The film is slow, ice cream melts faster that this film goes. I like some slower films but this one is too slow. I also like movies that put people on, or rather, in ice - frozen. The Man with Nine Lives (1940) with Boris Karloff is an example of a film I think is good concerning someone being frozen (or in a form of cryogenics).It's just like the plot reads: A man is working in a form of cryogenics, a state of suspended animation and decides he needs to test it. Just before he is frozen, his wife is killed and he is suspected of murdering her. - The film holds true to this description.It's nothing special, just a simple low grade B film that needed some spicing up and a little more speeding up to make it more interesting to me.2/10

Leofwine_draca Well it's a great title for a B-movie, but this simply has to be one of the dreariest and dullest films of all time – a film that even comes close to rivalling the obscure Filipino flick THE THIRSTY DEAD in terms of sheer awfulness. Although the title makes it sound like an engaging little thriller and the advertising sells it as a science fiction movie, in reality this is a boring little crime thriller from West Germany. Now, I'm all for German films from this period – the '60s krimi adaptations of Edgar Wallace stories were atmospheric and excellent – but this flick totally misses the ball, coming across more as a stilted soap opera rather than anything else.British director Bernard Knowles was a celebrated cinematographer in his day, shooting movies for Hitchcock, before turning his hand to direction with many television series during the 1950s. Unfortunately those TV episodes seem to have rubbed off in terms of this talky, plot-free mess. After an inordinate amount of time, a leading scientist decides to test his new suspended animation gear on himself, only for his wife to accidentally shoot herself at the same time. The police, naturally, suspect the scientist of murder...The problem is that this storyline doesn't actually happen until the hour mark – and before then we get talk, more talk, and some dialogue thrown in too. The script is unappealing, the characters unendearing and the actors frankly awful – there's more ham here than on your local chiller shelf at Tesco's. Delphi Lawrence as the drunken wife is the worst culprit, while other cast members veer between wooden and hammy. There's absolutely nothing in the way of action in the entire movie and the ending, while rushed, manages to feel dragged out in itself. This really is a non-starter of a film, with the short running time – 75 minutes – easily feeling like three times that amount. It took me three goes to finish watching FROZEN ALIVE and I consider myself somebody with a good attention span, so my advice is to give this one a miss...

BaronBl00d It has apparent that I liked this film a bit more than most. Yes, it has a ludicrous premise behind its story of a man frozen alive and then brought back to life afterward whilst an impending murder investigation looms overhead unbeknownst to him. Yes, it has some bizarre love triangle between a scientist with some floozy of a wife(but a buxomly, beautiful blonde floozy of a wife)and a German scientist helping out on a project involving freezing chimps. Well, the wife becomes suspicious of her husband and the German Girl Helen(played by the attractive Marianne Koch)thinking that there is more to their monkeying around. Things go into melodramatic mode and what we have really is more of a melodrama with science fiction overtones than a science fiction movie. It's cheesy; it's campy and fun - at least to me. The acting is fairly good for the most part: Mark Stevens looks incredible tired though through most of the movie. His wife is played by Delphi Lawrence giving a good portrayal(in a movie like this it must be emphasized)of the unstable doctor's wife. Koch is attractive and adequate. British character actor John Longdon is very good as Dr. Hubbard a friend to the two scientists and their work. I knew he was familiar to me when I saw him and then heard him speak. This was his last film. The director Bernard Knowles was a journeyman television director in Britain and this film has that look and feel for the most part plus a low budget. The real annoying part, if you will, was that when I started out to watch the film I had no idea it was a foreign film. Afterall it was called Frozen Alive on my DVD box and showed Mark Stevens on the cover. The film opens and we get Longdon, Stevens, and a girl who is said to be German, but then all the auxillary characters appeared to be German with the thick accents. Oh well, that is one over me. Most of them were not great thespians either. Frozen Alive is a poor film in many regards, but I enjoyed the tense atmosphere of emotion and the story despite its legion of flaws. It is one of those classic bad films that can be so much fun to sit down and watch.

highway234 In any case I don't think the ever did it. But for all its mediocrity it has tons of what makes a movie riffable... tons of German accents to mimic, old guys to make fun of, lines like "you don't think we've been conducting these experiments for the benefit of a half dozen monkeys do you?" and most importantly, lots of scenes featuring an aggressively drunk lady, many of which even involve the flagrantly irresponsible brandishing about of loaded firearms.SPOILERS that said, i didn't think it was as dreadful as a lot of the people here do. if you're in the mood for a talky retro drama you could do much worse. it IS rather slow though. it takes an hour yor the inevitable freeze-drying of the lead doctor guy to even happen. minor correction to a comment above: joan is not murdered but kills herself accidentally in a very darwin award-y moment. although it could be argued what's his name set her up by making her think the gun was empty and taking forever and a frickin' day to call an ambulance.