Good start, but then it gets ruined

Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

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

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.

"A scientist is working on a suspended animation process where a human being is frozen and then revived later. Deciding to use himself as a guinea pig, the scientist has his assistant place him into suspended animation to prove the process works. While in the process, the scientist's ex-wife (sic) is murdered (sic) and he becomes the prime suspect in her death," according to the DVD sleeve's synopsis.Actually, the woman is not "the scientist's ex-wife", and nobody is conventionally "murdered".The scientists in question are dedicated veteran Mark Stevens (as Dr. Frank Overton) and his attractive young assistant, Marianne Koch (as Dr. Helen Wieland). They are drawn to each other at work , a fact first noticed by Mr. Stevens' perceptive wife, Delphi Lawrence (as Joan Overton). The cybernetics storyline seems most interesting, initially; but, Ms. Lawrence's characterization is the best part of "Der Fall X701" (re-titled "Frozen Alive"). Lawrence pouts, shouts, drinks, and smokes up the screen; she not only steals her scenes, but also the entire movie.

Are you ready for this? A scientist(Mark Stevens)and his attractive assistant Dr. Helen Wieland(Marianne Koch)are working with suspended animation and while trying to prove their theory he subjects himself to the big freeze. Meanwhile his jealous and drunkard wife(Delphi Lawrence)is murdered and being in a frozen state does not an alibi make. In spite of a cult following this chunk of ice is hardly worth defrosting. Suspended interest. Unanimated suspense. Predictable story line. Still it is fun to watch. Also in the cast are: Joachim Hansen, Walter Rilla, John Longden and Wolfgang Lukschy. Lawrence is over-the-top and her character is so easy to dislike. On the other hand it is obvious to see why she would be jealous of her husband's assistant. Catch this as part of AMC Monsterfest.