[.ca] Freeze Me (Widescreen)

Utterly amazing:
I find this movie to be a little disturbing not because of the blood dead bodies etc. I feel very sorry for chihiro (cant remember exact name but its something like that) I feel that and by no was do i mean I would actually do this in real life because I wouldn't but I feel as though she had every right to kill those bastards because they have made her life hell in the past by raping her they then come back and ruin her life all over again!. But to be quite honest I was dissapointed with the ending of the film it would have been nice to know if she made it to Europe or if she got caught!. But all in all the film was very good the only japanese films I have seen are the Ring 1 and 2 audition and Freezer (aka Freeze me) but i would say i really liked audition better than freezer but freezer is in 2nd place. I would reccommend bying this DVD because it is good it concentrates on what really goes on for some people because lets face it people may think films like this are unrealistic but from what i hear these films are quite very near to the truth of what goes on in some households in Japan and maybe even other countries. Ok I'm blabbering on now but seriously I find this film to be very very good so rent it or buy it personally I wouldn't buy it because i have seen it 3 times already on the sci-fi channel so i really have no need to see it again i think you would be better to rent this item because it isn't a film you can stand to watch over and over again.

Freeze Me, Left Me, Balm Me:
Watched the Japanese horror flick Freeze Me earlier, and I have to say it was a bit of a let down. It didn't scare me, it didn't inpire me, I was actually bored at times to the pont where I fast forwarded while reading the dialog. ATTENTION: MAJOR SPOILAGE AHEAD: The story is basically, 1) girl gang raped by three men in little home village during winter. 2) Girl moved to Tokyo and starts new life, falls in love with boy, marriage and happiness on horizon. 3) After years, the three men find her in tokyo, they were all supposed to meet and enjoy her again. They ruin her job, they are the cause of relationship break up. 4) She kills them each, one by one, put bodies in freezers. (must buy new freezers). 5) Old boyfriend comes back, forgives, then he discovers bodies in freezers. 6) Girl kills boyfriend, moves to europe. This movie lacked everything that Audition did so well... there was no "mood", the girl, even though she was crazy, acted with such rationality as to minimize the fear factor. Death scenes were completely lacking. (she killed one guy by hitting him in the head with a full plastic bottle of water... is that possible???) The biggest problem, was that there was nothing "off" about the movie. For the "fear factor" to be maximized, you need to make the audience feel uncomfortable with themselves. Repulsed, yet simultaneously intrigued. Here, we knew why she was doing it, we understood why she froze them, we knew that she was going to kill them, there was no suspense, no surprise, no mystery. The only way to make up for lack of suspense is with gratuitous violence and gore, which was also missing. Let's compare it to another horror film. Silence of the Lambs took a two-tier approach... first of all, there was the killer, this was actually just a well done Nancy Drew mystery, but then they threw in Hannibal. The audience tried to identify with him, however how can you identify with a psychopath psychiatrist who eats human livers with fava beans and a nice Chianti??? It was this internal battle, raging in the viewer, that enhanced the story and brought it up to the level in which it belongs. Freeze me had no internal battle. The home town boys were schmucks, they deserved to die, they were killed... not even in a gratuitous or unusual way. So she had to store them in freezers to keep the stench down and to symbolize the winter when they raped her. It screams "real life story turned made for tv movie." Th0th

Forget the traditional horror themes . . .:
Actually, I would rate this movie at about 3.7, so I rounded up. I did take off a bit for replay value. If you allow yourself to forget about the amount of (or lack of) graphic violence and gore, this movie is unsettling and I was satisfied after watching it. As for the victim, you are made to wonder how she could let things go so far. Where were her support mechanisms? Is this type of incident possible or even probable in Japanese culture, considering its views on women? I found those questions and others, (how she could have friends, but still feel there was no one to turn to) made this movie entertaining in many ways. If you are looking for a gore-fest, this is not it. If you are looking for a movie that shows the strange quirks of another culture, brutality that is stark and unflinching and an ending that is both open and apocalyptic, you could do a lot worse. I thought the ending was appropriate for this type of movie. Another reviewer mentioned the main character moving to Europe at the end of the moive. Unless this is something that is shown in another version, or appears in the director's bio, the ending is more open to interpetation. MAJOR SPOILER AHEAD: It is possible, in the new DVD release that I watched, that she killed herself at the end - however, you do not see it happen. She is standing on her balcony, there is a flash of light and then she is gone.

Cold maybe, but not freezing....:
Plot revolves around this female who was gang raped as a young woman, moved to Toyko and rebuilt her life. Life was good until the men from her past reappear and threaten her future. Her method of dealing with them was drastic to say the least but not too plausible. SPOILER WARNING: freezing the men and thereby keeping them contained in her past, literally and figuratively on one level, yet not on another, because she had to constantly deal with the issue of keeping them frozen, was an interesting premise (she could never keep them in her past despite the freezing and ultimately choose death, maybe?) but it never came close to fulfilling its potential. Film is not worth a second viewing. However, I would be interested in watching subsequent films by this director (Takashi Ishii) before writing him off.