Frozen Scream is a 1975 horror film

Horror film

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 directed by Frank Roach. It was a title banned in the UK under the Video Nasties laws during the 1980s

1980s

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 and remains restricted as of 2010.

Plot

A mad scientist tries to create a drug for immortality

Immortality

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. Before he manages to test it however he is kidnapped by his fellow scientists who are part of a cult who believe that the drug plus low temperatures will be able to create frozen zombies. The missing scientist's wife calls on her ex-boyfriend, a detective who is on the kidnapping case, to help her.

Cast

• Renee Harmon
• Lynne Kocol
• Wolf Muser
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• Thomas Gowan
• Wayne Liebman
• Lee James
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• Sunny Bartholomew
• Bill Oliver
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• Bob Rochelle
• Teri Argula

Critical reception

J.C. Maçek III of WorldsGreatestCritic.com said, "Technically, this movie is a bit of a Zombie Flick, and fits, amazingly, into that weird, iconoclastic subgenre of Zombie Flicks that also includes fellow Video Nasty

Video nasty

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 Dead & Buried

Dead & Buried

Dead & Buried is a 1981 horror film directed by Gary Sherman, starring Melody Anderson and James Farentino. With a screenplay written by Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett, the movie was initially banned as a "Video Nasty" in the UK in the early 80s, but was later acquitted of obscenity charges and...

 as well as the French Film They Came Back

They Came Back

They Came Back is a French zombie film, originally released in 2004. The film was screened at the Hamburg Fantasy Filmfest in Hamburg, Germany, the Venice Film Festival in Italy, and the Toronto Film Festival in Canada....

! The biggest difference being that while They Came Back and Dead & Buried ranged from interesting to groundbreaking, Frozen Scream ranges from merely inept to completely bathetic (note: not "pathetic", "bathetic"... it's much, much worse)."