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Frozen Lake - Nikolaus Leytner - Austria Frozen Lake (Austria, 2015) by Eurochannel Airing times 3 Iconic Movies About a Retired Police Officer 5 Austrian Crime Movies Frozen Lake ( Der Tote am Teich , 2015) Austria Director: Nikolaus Leytner Cast: Maria Hofstätter, Josef Hader, Miriam Fussenegger Genre:  Thriller Length: 90’ Presentation: In a small, snow-covered village in Austria, retired police officer Sepp finds a dead man lying on the frozen lake, slain - previously poisoned, and decides to start his own investigation. Eurochannel premiers Frozen Lake . After his burnout, Sepp Ahorner withdrew from police life and now lives with his mother. During one of his morning walks, he discovers a badly battered corpse on a frozen lake. Since the villagers only responded with rejection and silence to the investigators Grete and Lisa, who had arrived from Linz, Sepp felt compelled to investigate on his own despite his retirement. Sepp is reclusive, and is considered "unique" in the village, since he is only interested in wild animals after the tragic death of his wife and daughter. The Linz detective Grete and her assistant Lisa have little to do with his strange methods. The case seems obvious as a crime of passion, until it turns out that the victim was not only killed but also poisoned. During the course of the investigation, Sepp himself comes under suspicion, but he’s not concerned. Even when the traces lead to his own family, he stubbornly continues to investigate. He has to choose between family and justice. The more the truth comes to light, the more Grete develops her own concept of justice and law. Sepp, on the other hand, has long overlooked the fact that his investigation is bringing misfortune to all his relatives. Synopsis: A retired police officer discovers a dead body on a frozen lake. When his own family members become the prime suspects, he decides to start his own investigation. 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A retired police officer discovers a dead body on a frozen lake.

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Anchorage, Alaska, circa 1983, looks and feels like a pioneer town in the Wild West in “The Frozen Ground,” Scott Walker’s new crime thriller (and first feature). It’s a town teeming with strip clubs, drug addiction, prostitution, and runaway girls whom nobody would miss if they went missing. And they do go missing, in droves. Based on the true story of Alaskan serial killer Robert Hansen (played here by John Cusack ), and detective Glenn Flothe (named, in the film, Jack Holcombe, and played by Nicolas Cage ) who, in investigating a series of missing persons reports as well as a couple of dead girls dug up by animals out in the wilderness, starts to wonder if all of these events aren’t somehow connected.

“The Frozen Ground” trucks in cliche, as most serial killer and police procedural films do, but the strength of the acting (from the leads down to people with only one or two lines) helps ground the film. Filmed in a frenetic style, with gigantic moving frenzied closeups, and an almost total lack of establishing shots, “The Frozen Ground” is best when it lands, and stays, on the faces of the leads: Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, and Vanessa Hudgens . When we are looking at their faces, we don’t need to be reminded of the stakes. They’re there in plain view.

It’s hard to do something new in the serial killer genre, especially since the field is so over-saturated, from the 24/7 Investigation Discovery channel to “Criminal Minds”‘s weekly obsession with how dangerous it is to be a woman because one minute you’re walking down the street, minding your own business, the next minute you’re chained up in a dungeon. All of those familiar elements are here. Jack Holcombe even has a resentful wife ( Radha Mitchell ), complaining to her husband about how hard he works, before doing an unmotivated about-face in a later scene. Why do movies so rarely know what to do with wives of workaholics? Why are they usually given the role of nag, before coming around in the final hour? 

But “The Frozen Ground” is not trying to re-invent the wheel, and it also isn’t trying to imitate “ Seven ” or “Silence of the Lambs.” It is interested in Holcombe’s increasingly urgent investigation, and the pushback he receives from higher-ups who don’t want to re-open what were considered to be closed cases. There’s one shot of Nicolas Cage sitting in a dark office, staring up at a bulletin board, covered with snapshots of missing women. That one shot establishes so much: his feeling of urgency, the sense of how huge this thing could be if anyone could find the missing links, and the loneliness of his quest.

Robert Hansen’s name may not be as well-known as Ted Bundy, or John Wayne Gacy, but his murderous spree in 1970s and 1980s Alaska puts him in the Serial Killer Pantheon. Despite a troubled and violent background with tons of red flags, Hansen was able to maneuver undetected in Anchorage for many years, abducting young women, raping them, taking them via private plane out into the inaccessible wilderness surrounding Anchorage and then hunting them like game. He was married, with kids. He worked as a baker. People liked him, but he was quiet and kept to himself. He had a great cover persona, as most of these characters do. Flothe finally got a warrant to search Hansen’s house, and found an aviation map covered with X’s, to mark the spot of his burial grounds. Many of the victims were never found. We’ll never know the number of women he actually killed. Hansen was sentenced to 461 years in prison with no possibility of parole.

Cindy Paulson (Vanessa Hudgens) is the teenage prostitute who managed to escape from Hansen’s clutches, and went to the police to tell her story. She was not believed, because of her background. This is handled in a manner bordering on vaudeville, with one cop regaling a group of cops with the contemptuous comment, “I mean, how can a prostitute be raped?” They all laugh in agreement. This is not to say that such situations do not happen in police stations all the time, but the scene feels heavy-handed.

The scenes between Nicolas Cage and Vanessa Hudgens are the film’s best. Nicolas Cage is so grounded here, so real and simple. The whole film really hinges on Holcombe trying to make Cindy trust him so that she will testify and be a reliable witness, and this is where Cage shines. His entire performance is about two things only: thinking and listening. He has a power of listening that is totally authentic, and he is quite generous to his young co-star. He is not concerned with himself, because Jack Holcombe isn’t either. He listens to Cindy talk on a level that could be described as subterranean, with a cop’s instinct for what isn’t being said.

And Cindy is, to put it mildly, a handful. She has a pimp (played by 50 Cent, who also is one of the producers of the film), but things have gone south in that relationship. She wanders up and down the “Ho Stroll” in Anchorage, and gets a job dancing in a strip club. She does coke and crystal meth. She has nowhere to live, and stands on the sidewalk in the driving snow. (There is a breathtaking scene that has nothing to do with anything else, where Cindy, alone on a deserted side street, comes across a gigantic moose, which has wandered into the city. Moose and Cindy stand for a while, staring at each other. The snow falls. It is a moment that is beyond meaning, beyond plot, reminiscent of the encounter with the deer on the railroad tracks at dawn in “Stand By Me.”)

John Cusack dials the burner down low, a smart choice, giving the character the guy-next-door persona which was so much a part of Hansen’s successful M.O. When we see him in the flashbacks, with one of the girls he abducted ( Gia Mantegna , in a gut-wrenching performance), he is calm, almost taciturn, even when he punches her in the head. He’s almost kind and supportive with his victims, telling them they are “good girls.” Cusack has placed his voice at a very interesting part of his register, making him sound (and seem) benign. It’s a voice that almost isn’t there. He is a hunter, a predator. He has worked hard at his camouflage.

Mixed in with the super fast hand-held action of the majority of the film are periodic aerial shots (Patrick Murguia is the cinematographer) of the forbidding Alaskan wilderness, mountains, glaciers, frozen rivers. These shots are constant reminders of what a vast field Hansen had to play in, and the impossibility of ever finding the missing.

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‘the dark below’: film review.

A woman struggles to survive in a frozen lake in 'The Dark Below,' Douglas Schulze's near-silent horror film.

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Pedestrian execution undercuts the high concept of Douglas Schulze’s near-silent horror film about a young woman trapped in a freezing lake by a determined killer. While its intriguing setup sounds like it could make for a provocative and original thriller, The Dark Below never lives up to its promise, although it earns points for originality.

The story begins with Rachel (Lauren Mae Shafer) — at least that’s her name as provided in the credits — being attacked by a burly man (David G.B. Brown) who strangles her, forces a drug down her throat and puts her in a wet suit. Then he drags her outside a cabin to a frozen lake, where he outfits her with an almost empty oxygen tank and shoves her underwater. The idea, apparently, is to make her death look like an accident.

Release date: Mar 10, 2017

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As the desperate woman struggles to survive, flashbacks reveal that her attacker is her husband, with whom she has a child, and that being a serial killer was apparently one of his aspects that she somehow missed in their relationship. The only other significant character figuring in these scenes is Rachel’s mother; she’s played by genre veteran Veronica Cartwright ( Invasion of the Body Snatchers ), who delivers the film’s best performance.

Most of the action depicts Rachel struggling to breathe in the small area between the ice-cold water and the frozen surface, having to retreat underwater every time her assailant spots her and prevents her from escaping. But the proceedings are not nearly as suspenseful as one would imagine, proving dully repetitive despite the brief 75-minute running time that includes lengthy credits. Even at that, the film feels padded, with the director stretching out the thin storyline with numbingly extraneous slow motion.

The chief gimmick is the absence of dialogue , except for one three-word sentence delivered early on that proves appropriately chilling. Snippets of conversation heard during the flashback scenes are muffled and indecipherable, yet the general banality of the situations won’t leave you straining to hear them. The concept doesn’t add much to the overall effect, although it does provide the opportunity for a catchy ad line: “Silence is the most powerful scream,” which inevitably recalls “In space, no one can hear you scream” from Alien (in which Cartwright also memorably appeared).

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The Dark Below also suffers from plot credibility issues and an overpowering musical score apparently intended to make up for the lack of verbiage. Horror film aficionados will probably want to check it out for the novelty factor and brazenness of its approach, and lead actress Shafer certainly deserves credit for her intense physical exertions. Non-genre fans, however, will find little here of interest.

Production: Dead Wait Productions Distributor: Parade Deck Films Cast: Lauren Mae Shafer, David G.B. Brown, Veronica Cartwright Director: Douglas Schulze Screenwriters: Douglas Schulze , Jonathan D’Ambrosio Producers: Kurt Eli Mayry , Kathryn J. McDermott, Douglas Schulze Executive producer: Seth Willenson Director of photography: Robert Skates Production designer, editor: Jonathan D’Ambrosio Costume designer: Cheryl Marie Freeman Composer: David Bateman Not rated, 75 min.

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A retired police officer discovers a dead body on a frozen lake. When his own family members become the prime suspects, he decides to start his own investigation

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Leonardo DiCaprio jumped into a frozen lake to save his dog while filming Don't Look Up

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In director Adam McKay 's new comedy Don't Look Up , Leonardo DiCaprio plays an astronomer desperately trying to save the world from an approaching comet. But in the course of EW's Around the Table panel with McKay, DiCaprio, and the latter's costars Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Jonah Hill, and Tyler Perry, we discovered how the Titanic star desperately tried to save one of his dogs from a frozen lake during the film's shoot in Boston.

"The funniest thing was, Leo has these two rescue huskies that are just absolute tornadoes," said McKay of the film's production. "Jonah would send me pictures of your ripped-apart couch."

"Tell the frozen lake story," said Lawrence.

"Basically they both fell in a frozen lake," said Hill, who lived with DiCaprio during the shoot.

"Yeah, and then I went in," continued DiCaprio. "[Living in California] I didn't understand what you do at a frozen lake."

"One of the dogs fell in," said Lawrence, "and he jumped in the frozen lake to save the dog and as soon as he pushed the one dog out of the pond the other one jumped in."

"The other one started licking the one that was drowning and then we all were in the frozen lake together," said DiCaprio.

"And I'm sure you guys are all wondering, I was too, he immediately got naked in the car," concluded Lawrence.

What have we learned? You really can't let Leo anywhere near water.

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Lake Kemijärvi is located entirely in the eponymous city. With a shoreline of some 230 000 kilometers and a water area of 230 km2, it is the 19th largest of the 188 000 lakes in Finland.

The location offers both large open water areas and narrow straits, with varying looks throughout the season. In late autumn and early winter, the sheer layer of ice can take over the waters without a hint of snow covering it, resembling glass that reflects the colors of the sky. In midwinter, the ice is usually thick enough to carry even large vehicles – and that is on top of a heavy blanket of snow. Late winter is the time of streams and floes, as the ice and snow begin to make way for the approaching summer.

In addition to stunning landscapes, Lake Kemijärvi offers an excellent and versatile spot for capturing winter activities such as ice swimming, skiing, ice fishing and snowmobiling. It is also suitable for winter shoots that require custom snow and ice tracks.

Accommodation

The accommodation selection in Kemijärvi includes apartments, hotel rooms, holiday villages and cottages, most located either in the city center or the Suomutunturi travel area.

The total accommodation capacity of the city of Kemijärvi is approximately 900 beds.

Restaurants & Catering

There are a handful of cafés and restaurants in Kemijärvi, including lunch cafés, fast food eateries and à la carte restaurants. Some local businesses also offer catering services.

Other Services

Some additional local services that may be useful when filming at Lake Kemijärvi include:

• Snowplow services
• Snowmobile rentals
• Reindeer and husky experiences
• Snowshoe, ski and other winter equipment rentals
• Guide services
• Transportation services

But this is just to name a few. For more information on the services available in the area, visit the Kemijärvi travel site .

Lapland is the most connected wilderness in the Arctic. Thanks to its five airports, vast and well-maintained road network and efficient public transportation, getting around is effortless throughout the year.

The Rovaniemi International Airport (1 h by car) offers daily connections to Helsinki and other European cities around the year, as well as connections to some Asian cities during the winter season.

There is a railway station in Kemijärvi . A daily night train travels from Southern Finland, offering you a chance to sleep the journey away in a comfortable cabin. For timetables and tickets for trains, visit VR .

You can travel to Kemijärvi by bus. For example, there is a daily line to the city from Rovaniemi. For timetables and tickets for buses, visit Matkahuolto .

As all of Lapland, Kemijärvi is easy to reach by car.

Crew & Filming Equipment

There are a number of production service companies that operate across Lapland. We’re happy to tell you more, so please get in touch .

Permits & Safety

It is always important to keep safety in mind when filming on a frozen lake. You should always check the thickness of the ice through the municipality or local production service before filming. And if it so happens that the natural ice isn’t thick enough for filming, there are several service providers that offer similar conditions, such as  Test World .

Thanks to the Finnish concept of the Everyone’s Right , most of the Lapland nature is free to film in. In the case of Lake Kemijärvi, this means that if your production is on a smaller scale and does not cause disturbance to the nature, there is a chance you may not need to worry about permits at all. But if you’re unsure, it’s always best to ask.

Film Lapland does not issue permits, but we’re more than happy to help you determine whether you need one and with the permit process, so please don’t hesitate to contact us .

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