The Frozen Ground - review

When police officers find teenage prostitute Cindy Paulson handcuffed and distressed in an Alaskan motel room, she tells them she was abducted and attacked with her attacker threatening to take her to his cabin and kill her. But with her reputation as a prostitute, the police department don’t take her claims seriously and fail to follow up on her attack.

Meanwhile, State Trooper Jack Halcombe (Nicolas Cage) is called in to help when a body is found buried in a frozen wood and is later identified as a girl who went missing years before. As Jack looks into the murder, he begins to link together Cindy’s claims with the previous arrests of local businessman Robert Hansen as well as the disappearances of a number of other women over the years and is determined to bring him in for questioning. But with his evidence only being circumstantial and the prosecution service reluctant to arrest an upstanding citizen with no hard evidence, it’s up to Jack to persuade Cindy to co-operate with their enquiries into what could be one of America’s biggest serial killing hunts.

As Cindy gives them all the information she knows, Jack and his team work hard to piece together everything they have in an attempt to link it to Robert Hansen, but when Cindy is pulled back into the world she has tried to escape and her attacker witnesses her dancing in a club, her life is once again in danger as she is the only person who can identify him. Will the police catch him in time and be able to prove his involvement with all the other missing women?

Based on the true story of the only known victim to escape American serial killer Robert Hansen, this movie was extremely well acted by all involved, especially John Cusack who I have never seen in a ‘baddie’ role. 

Filmed over the course of only 26 days in order for the frozen winter to really take centre stage, this thriller wasn’t as good as I’d hoped, but I still found it worth watching.