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- 2002
- Media Blasters
- 1 h 41 m
- 2002
- Media Blasters
- 1 h 41 m
Summary A disturbing thriller about a woman trying to escape the memory of being raped.
Directed By: Takashi Ishii
Written By: Takashi Ishii
- 2002
- Media Blasters
- 1 h 41 m
- 2002
- Media Blasters
- 1 h 41 m
Freeze Me
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Summary A disturbing thriller about a woman trying to escape the memory of being raped.
Directed By: Takashi Ishii
Written By: Takashi Ishii
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Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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63% Positive
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1 Review
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
54
63% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
25% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
13% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
The violent scenes veer vertiginously between slapstick, soft-core pornography and raw documentary, leaving you repelled and confused, as well as fascinated.
With this perceptive, however bloody, film, Ishii makes it disturbingly clear that a culturally instilled sense of shame and fear of being shunned mean that women like Chihiro are doubly victimized, both by their attackers and the society that should protect them.
Ishii's rough-hewn film may be the nastiest entry in its dubious but resonant subgenre since "I Spit on Your Grave." It's a black pearl for anyone who likes a little existential psychosis with their semi-softcore exploitation.
The whole movie plays like an improbable blend of "Repulsion," "High Noon" and the archetypal low-budget rape/revenge shocker "I Spit on Your Grave." Queasy audiences beware, but midnight-movie bookers take note.
With a stronger actress who could have been in greater command of the character, Freeze Me would have been a cold-hearted masterpiece rather than the okay thriller it turned out.
Comfortable with the inherent contradictions, Ishii throws all sexual politics to the wind in his highly stylized, fearlessly gratuitous fantasy, an unsettling mix of titillation, morality, victimization, and empowerment.
Ishii instills this unpleasantness with some Hitchcockian black humor.
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