Holliston native Adam Green directs ‘Frozen’ flick

Adam Green, a Holliston native and director of the thriller “Frozen” hitting Boston-area theaters on Friday, Feb. 5, says his indie flick following three snowboarders stranded on a chairlift and forced to make life-and-death decisions was inspired by childhood treks to local ski slopes. “Growing up in the greater Boston area, I couldn’t afford to ski at the nicer resorts like Stowe or Okemo in Vermont. Instead, I often found myself slumming at the ski mountains in Massachusetts that were so small that they only stayed open on the weekends and consisted of three rickety lifts that offered to take you to an easy, medium or expert hill,” he recalls. “For the skier on a budget there was none of the glamour and awe that a ‘real’ East or west coast mountain resort has to offer, but it was the best we could get and so that’s what we did. Those experiences are where this film was born,” the director continues. Green, who produced Cambridge homeboy Paul Solet’s horror flick ” Grace ,” say s the premise behind “Frozen,” a movie following three stranded skiers–Kevin Zegers from

“Transamerica,” Shawn Ashmore from “X-Men” and newcomer Emma Bell–tapped into real fears from skiing in New England. “They were low-rent mountains with merely a few operational chairs that were often only operational on the weekends due to lack of business during the weekdays. I started thinking about how shady some of those lifts seemed back then and how terrified everyone on the lift would get when it would inevitably stop for a few moments,” Green recalls. The Los Angeles-based director, who shot the New England-set flick in Utah, says the concept seemed simple and straightforward … until he began filming. “It’s just three people in a chair. How hard could it be? Man, were we wrong,” he muses. “And boy, were we in for it.” Click here for the Loaded Gun Boston interview with Cambridge native Paul Solet on his Green-produced horror flick “Grace.” Boston-based pop culture blog focusing on the controversial voices who fuel the local news, media, arts, film, politics, music, LGBT and comedy scenes.

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Holliston native Adam Green directs ‘Frozen’ flick