So having bought this ages ago I have now finally gave it a watch and it wasn't eaxctly great.

The film follows a group who are trapped 11,000ft up in a cable car during New Years Eve and try to find a way to escape on New Years Day.

I found the film to be bland. While it was short at 1 hour and 17 minutes it dragged at points making it feel longer than it needed to be.

The dubbing for this film was horrendous and not even 5 minutes in do you see how bad it really is. It's almost unsynced a couple of times it's that bad.

Overall, it's not great, but it does have a simple, straight forward story to follow.

4/10.

Adam Green should be...gracious someone wanted to make an indirect sequel to his Frozen.

I like the same sub-genre film, Open Water and yes, I totally dug its frightful sequel, and even though this technically isn't also a franchise, it might as well been. 4 peeps are stuck, New Year's Eve, 100 meters off the ground, during a blizzard in a gondola lift. Kinda the same thing, with less shelter, in Adam Green's Frozen about 3 stuck on a ski lift for days.

For some reason, this one struct more of a cord with me since I am deathly afraid of heights and these victims were far less restrained and always on the edge of falling. I can't tell you how many heart attacks I narrowly avoided while watching this.

It's not all praise I had for this, sadly. I'm hoping there was a subtitled version because the dubbed version was so hard to deal with. Their voices were incredibly annoying and fit none of the characters. Almost a mockery of them. I'd rather read my movies than deal with 5th rate dubbing voices.

Also, it's painfully obvious this film had a severely low budget. I can recall three main scenes of great peril and all of them were no-show, cut-aways, the last being in the climax. And this wasn't Jaws; this wasn't because of suspense. It was downright budgetary.

You know how Hollywood loves to remake foreign films by the dozens? America, if you're listening, REMAKE THIS. Heck, a $5 million budget probably could cover all we needed to see.

Despite poor quality and predictability, if you're afraid of heights and love movies that scare you: watch this.

***

Final Thoughts: The character who gave me the most anxiety with my Falling Fear, was gorgeous. I know several men in my life that look like him, only all non-white. Of course, that doesn't matter; I'll take any of them. All of them, if given the chance.

Anyways...

Great watch, want to watch again, and can definitely recommend.

This is a great realistic horror movie, and is super Russian. Still from the land of bad dubs, I honestly stopped caring as soon as the situation escalated.

Maybe it's the setting: a cable car, a snowy mountain, rural Russia, but they nailed the immersive isolation aspect of this. That combined with the awful things people will do to each other in survival situations makes for a great movie.

That said, it was a little irritating seeing all the stupid things people did, but they're also the things that make it a movie, right?