#doublebills

I’ve finally gotten around to doing something I’ve been meaning to do for ages. I’ve just watched a double bill of Frozen. Now, unless you’ve been living in a cave for the last couple of years I’m sure you’ll have heard of one film with that title. Disney’s Frozen has been a massive success, spawning endless merchandise, sing-a-longs and probably half the costumes worn by young girls on World Book Day.

The other half of today’s double bill is a little bit less well known, but nonetheless brilliant. Frozen is also the name of a horror film by Adam Green about three people who get stranded on a ski lift when the resort shuts down for the week.

I desperately wanted to spend this post telling you all about the things these films have in common. I hoped to unveil a whole string of themes and sub-texts that linked the two films in ways you never would have imagined. Well, I’m not saying that those things don’t exist, but I certainly didn’t find them in this viewing.

Here’s what the films have in common:

1.       Snow.

2.       Wolves.

3.       A blond female character who causes division.

4.       The title.

5.       More snow.

Yeah, that’s about it.

Still, they made an enjoyable double, and they do both contain interactive elements in that I sang along with the cartoon, and frustratedly shouted advice and words of warning at the horror film.

The one thing I would say is that I wish I’d watched them the other way round. Calvary and 22 Jump Street (see a couple of weeks back) work as a double-bill because they are so different and balance each other perfectly. Frozen and Frozen also have that balance, but I watched the feel-good-cartoon-musical first because I was eating my dinner, and so was left with the heart wrenching tension.