The Frozen Dead (1967)

Beautiful, moving film.

Awesome Movie

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

British sci-fier that's utterly mad and quite awful at times, yet for fans of "B" movie schlockers from days of yore there's enough boldness and charm to warrant a look.In short order the plot entails a nutty scientist planning to revive frozen Nazis to kick start a new world order. Dana Andrews is the name actor in the lead role, complete with bad German accent, and Kathleen Breck is the star performer playing a head in a box; a victim of the mad scientists moving throughout the madness. It's all very silly and the fact that Andrews and company are taking it serious further induces the mirth factor. The effects work is a very mixed bag, but always fun, while there are some genuinely great scenes involving the frozen corpses, a wall of moving arms and every scene that Breck's head is involved in. None more so with the latter for the truly haunting ending. 2/10

Ordinary, another take on 'Frankenstein' with dismembered body parts being given a new lease of 'life', this film remains ensconced in my head, (If you'll pardon the saying) since I last saw it about thirty years ago (not sure it's been repeated here in the UK or out on video/DVD).Disgustingly yet sort of delightfully so, horrible with Elsa's exposed brain and chopped off head, the last line in the film - my title above, gave me nightmares at twelve when I last saw it. A true kitsch horror flick that just has to be seen. It's not totally a turkey even if it sort of looks that way. Dana Andrews at the end of his career, still puts in a good performance helping neo-Nazis produce a new kind of 'master-race' with telepathic waves from his niece's chum's (Elsa's) chopped off bonce. she looks amazingly under-nourished and decomposed to boot, to add to the horror, whispering (yes, no vocal chords, or at least they couldn't be ably connected) and lots of nice tubes connected to her only remaining body part. She uses her telekinesis or telepathy whatever, to kill those who brought her condition to a head (sorry, couldn't resist!!!)However, just for that line, in my title, which is the end line of the film, uttered by her good self, I'd like to see it again. Nostalgia and nothing more! (And to see if it still seems as disgusting as I remember it!) * Since this review, I found it on Youtube, in nauseating low-key colour to add to the kitschness of it! Check it out!

Frozen Dead is basically just a twist on the classic Frankenstein story; except instead of a brilliant doctor trying to reanimate a corpse, we get a not so brilliant doctor continually trying and failing to bring the dead back to life. I have no problem with films like this; in fact, I'd even say that this one was slightly pioneering - but the main problem with it is simply that it's boring. The plot moves at snail pace and despite some interesting ideas, none of them are put forward in an interesting way; and the film has no point to it. The plot focuses on the idea of bringing key members of the Nazi party back to life. A crazy scientist kept the frozen heads of several party members and has been keeping them safe until a chance to bring them back to life presents itself. He finally finds a way to bring them back by attaching their heads onto new bodies; but finds himself in need of a fresh body to experiment on. His niece's friend who is staying with him provides the perfect solution, until the niece decides to look into the disappearance of her friend.The sixties and seventies were something of a golden period for UK horror; the Hammer and Amicus films are, of course, the main standouts; but there was some good stuff coming from elsewhere also. There were also a lot of very bad horror films being made around this period, and Frozen Dead is certainly one of the latter. The ideas regarding the doctor's failed experiments could have provided some interesting moments; but they don't and the film continually fails to generate any interest from the viewer. It's actually quite a shame that this film is so woeful because we do get some ideas that are original considering the time period; the whole 'Nazisploitation' genre was still a few years away, while the macabre way certain body parts are brought back to life goes a bit further than the Frankenstein films that were made before this one did. There's nothing special about the atmosphere or the acting about the film; both are serviceable considering the type of film but neither is anything to write home about either. Overall, Frozen Dead is a miserable example of a British sixties horror film and I would not recommend it.

I just read the other user comment saying this film was not easily forgotten and I felt compelled to comment. I too saw this movie when I was young.. about ten years old... and here I am thirty years later and I suddenly felt compelled to Google it out of the blue. It really did haunt me and obviously still crosses my mind from time to time. I would not watch it again, either - there was something very sickening about it. I guess if I watched it now, used to the modern age of special effects and film techniques I would not be terribly impressed... but at the time it left it's mark. For that I give it positive rating even though I wish I'd never seen it in the first place.